Why are adults being denied vapes ?
I’m 59 and have successfully used vaping to quit smoking after 45 years on the darts.Pharmaceutical/Prescription vapes are no good for me.Its been 8 months now I don’t want to be forced backed to Smoking the killer ones.
@jgrogan222
He’s bagging his old party because they are standing in the way of the super power renewables roll out which he is now part of as a private citizen with investments.
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#HarmReduction
@Mark_Butler_MP
@Raf_Epstein
It’s just bs policy.Banning the most successful quit method available to smokers so kiddies don’t try it.
UK and NZ have a completely opposite opinion and promote vapes as a safer alternative.15billion in cigarette taxes are motivating this fraud.
I’m 60 .I use vapes now cause smokes were killing me.They shouldn’t be restricted but encouraged.Most other countries recognise this and promote them over ciggs.why is Australia different.?
@TaborLindsayLaw
@Kurt_Yeo
I’m time smoker.Pack a day.Have tried hypnosis,Champix,gum,patches everything.I would quit for a while but always went back.Since vaping,my teeth are whiter,My morning cough is gone,I don’t smell and i feel like a non smoker but i still use nicotine.
@abcnews
Kevin Rudd got greedy and indexed it so it went up every 1/4.
The price now is crazy and then they ban a safer alternative like vapes which people use to stop smoking tobacco.
PH in this country is out of control.
WHO hates vapes and are funding this narrative
When smokers switch to nicotine vapes:
Cancer risk ↓99.5%
Cardiovascular disease ↓30-40%
Lung cilia recover full function
Lung infections ↓66%
Ashtray use ↓100%
@GrimmGreen
@TomPlayford3
Pretty obvious Twiggy was in this for Twiggy.
That’s clear now to all except probably Bowen but yeah.Who knew.?
Bailed from Sun cable too.
Where’s the money.!
I find it amazing I can smoke cigarettes all over the world. But, if I use a
#SaferNicotine
product like
#vapes
or oral nicotine pouches, I am forbidden! Sometimes jailed, fined, beaten, and tased, for the act of opting for a safer nicotine product. The world is messed up!!
@TGAgovau
FDA style but worse.
Mark Butlers prohibition in action.
Cigarettes are fine kids but vaping has been decreed illegal by a compromised Health Minister.
TGA and Police are now enforcing a crackdown on an alternative to cigarettes is bizarre PH policy.
you should be embarrassed.
This is the real story.
It’s about the money.
Health of smokers or protection of kids were just part of the business case.
The suckers are US.
We have been played by all and sundry.
@SenatorRennick
Wait till you see the money scandal behind the
#vape
prohibition
Look at NZ & Sweeden then look at
@ausgov
& the gravey train for lobbyists
@AuSenate
was turned into a
@TGAgovau
joke festival of lies & misinformation
But hey
We all know it
At what cost?
@Mon4Kooyong
Banning vapes and only allowing people to access them this way is going to do that.Then they have to buy the crap government one’ voted for the ban.
BBC:
"Hull hospital hands out vapes in anti-smoking drive"
"A hospital is handing out free vapes in an attempt to persuade staff and visitors to give up smoking."
@socialmediaend
@RositaDaz48
True Tyron but nobodies recycling them yet.NMT is one company trying to set up a plant in Europe but at this stage it doesn’t seem to be happening .There won’t be until there’s 1000s of dead batteries.
You do have to wonder why Australia is persisting with prohibition TC policy when a clear example of working harm reduction policy is ignored right next door in NZ.
Once again New Zealand government acts as if all that matters is reducing smoking & therefore smoking-related deaths ASAP. But Australia’s vape policy is ‘world-leading’ cos based on premise policy should be all about virtue signalling
@theofoukkare
@drjoesDIYhealth
@LivePippas
@LivePippas
So BT supply the vapes through pharmacy in Australia.Amazing.
BT win.We have been sold a lie.
Butler is a fool,incompetent or the ultimate gangster.
Corruption is following this government around like a bad smell.Something is off here.
@LivePippas
Let’s get out a microscope and have some independent thinkers get involved with the vape issue which has now become a major headache for Labor and may possibly affect re-election what with 2 million vaping voters out to take revenge on Mark Butler.
Maybe time for a reshuffle.
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@miles_sack
They knew they were going to be asked for details of their widely Quoted Gencost report and then amazingly “Me and Frank are heading up the coast”.See ya in a few weeks .
Put the questions on notice,hide employees and the Dog ate my Homework excuse
@JoshButler
This is the way forward.Restrict access to under 18 like it and introduce Strong,Medium,Weak strength nicotine with an obvious exit strategy.
Weaning people off combustion cigarettes should be the goal here.Its called Harm Reduction.Well done Libs.
@Algore09algor
You’re a criminal now Al.
As i am. The only escape is to be a good citizen and smoke the legal way.
There is no alternative.
Nicotine addiction is ok but must be combustion cigarettes .
Thanks Health officials.
The Black Market thanks Mark Butler for doubling the profit from I-Get vapes in the last 6 months.
A Spokesman said.
“Marks definitely doing something right”.
“Profits have skyrocketed thanks to his prohibition policies and we are expecting more increases soon.”
What happens when government declares vapes only legally available now from pharmacies and pharmacies give same reply as Ukraine sailor on Snake Island gave to Russian warship demanding surrender? Remember?
A two-day joint enforcement operation between the TGA and Queensland Health has led to the seizure of more than 10,000 nicotine pouches and hundreds of illicit vaping goods.
Read more:
Freeman triggered when
@mattjcan
simply asks for evidence
1. Tries to conflate young adults with children
2. When pressed, becomes arrogant & STILL avoids the question
3. Has no idea how targeted ads work; Yes, a logged-in ADULT in UK would see
#vapes
ads. UK kids would not.
@SubinthePub
Anyone that got the majority of their news from the Project and Channel 10 is possibly in need of professional help.
Imagine your view of the world.?
@BenFordhamLive
Not quit just live there in Alice Springs and get back to her roots and live,first hand experiences with the people and find solutions.
She ain’t finding it here in town.
She is the minister apparently.
Buck stops with,and all that Westminster stuff we have.
@SenatorRennick
It’s all over the place.State and Federal.
Whole bunch from SA Politicians are heading to the Cannes Film Festival to party on.
I mean a fact finding mission to explore cool movies. !
@peters_malcolm
Many years ago they said we were the most over governed country in the world.
I doubt that has changed much and with Digital ID it’s going to get worse.
@colleenhartlan1
You'd think relying on Vic Health and Cancer Council would be safe enough.
Unless you're an MP responsible for those orgs and you're just ignoring widespread complaints about them.
Fortunately the published science is mostly independent of them.
@ama_media
@WorldHealthSmt
@VicHealth
All legal vapes sold in Australia are big pharmaceutical vapes.
The illegal ones like I get are from China.
Why are pharmaceutical vapes ok to sell at Chemistwarehouse if they are so bad.
An X Australian health minister has his own brand.
Are you being completely honest here. ?
Something is not right here. UK health is giving vapes out to stop people smoking.Its a Full ban in Oz but you can get me mate’s cheap vapes at Chemist Warehouse.Legit.
@theheraldsun
Can we get a reaction from the Federal Health Minister.?
You said it was just an informal market and you and TGA and boarder force were going to crush the illegal market that sells to kids.?
Vapes now illegal and a new BM all under Marks watch.
Where is he.?
"Plaintiffs could very plausibly argue that restricting access to less harmful nicotine alternatives constitutes a breach of their human right to health."
@LanceChurchill
Just the beginning really.Anyone can now be arrested for possession of a friggin’ almost 60.I hope i don’t get beaten to the ground for vaping Watermelon flavour.
Labor has no mandate for its illiberal & oppressive vapes bans which are clearly based on flawed & tobacco control inexpert opinion. 10 years of outlier vapes nonsense to protect tobacco taxes & Pharma nicotine & mates
@Mark_Butler_MP
@AlboMP
@healthgovau
@AdamBandt
@Anne_Ruston
@VoteLewko
@FergusonNews
@RepMTG
As usual with a Sarah Ferguson interview.I feel i know less about the subject that at the beginning of her interview.
This was a complete shocker.
Her group speak is painful.
The federal government has been accused of pouring petrol on a raging fire as it prepares to raise the price of legal tobacco by 6.8 per cent. Theo Foukkare from the Australian Association of Convenience Stores joins Karina Carvalho.
#7NEWS
@AlexWodak
@Mark_Butler_MP
@SimonChapman6
@DrOliviaDoll1
@LivePippas
He could claim some dodgy advice from uninformed health officials lead to overzealous laws that basically in the end protected BT.
Will Mark Butler hold a press conference.?
Is he busy somewhere else cause he’s gone to ground.
Disappeared it seems.?
Mark Butler:Where are you.???
@ColinMendelsohn
@JacktheInsider
@australian
When the main adviser to Government on vapes is spruiking the economic benefits that exclusively allowing the “pharmacy only”sale of know health outcomes were not the first priority.”Buckets of money” Simon Chapman.
@JasonClareMP
@Mark_Butler_MP
Get em out of schools for sure but leave adults to choose.Especially people who use them to stay off the killer variety your government sells.
@jkelovuori
Public Health Australia is onto it.
They propose to ban these products as they may lead to kids smoking cigarettes later in life.
It’s world first protection don’t you know.!
@UKCannabisClubs
Allow those that want to the ability to grow a few plants.
Seriously.
It’s a government created problem.
Other countries in Europe and over Asia and US are all relaxing restrictions and allowing consumers to grow 5/6 plants at home.
End the war on this drug at least.
Ridiculous
@Kate3015
Don’t get me started on the TGA. Their funding model does not incentivise them to look after the wellbeing of Australian patients but rather the commercial interests of the companies funding them. It’s about time this changed.
@TheRealPBarry
Very low bar this year.Every journalist is so partisan that you only ever get 1/2 the story.SMH limited replies to this gibe at their competitor.
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Some people are ok with this status quo. I am not.
Not when the most effective smoking cessation aid and at least 95% safer option is available.
Anti-Vaping = Pro-Smoking
This is the product Mark Butler has banned.However cigarettes available at your local lolly shop.Apparently he’s fighting cancers by blocking any alternative to cigarettes.Bizarre.
@ColinMendelsohn
I’m 60 and use vapes to stop smoking.
I’m being denied to right to even choose the method of nicotine intake as according to our health guidelines here you are only legally allowed to use burning tobacco and alternative methods are prohibited.
Crazy.
@9NewsAUS
Should there be some rules about TV stations doing “Polls” and then basing a whole story around the results of said “poll”.?
Is this actually news are just Jono reckons blah,blah,blah another rule to establish.