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Professor Lisa Maher AM - UNSW Sydney
Regulation that is too severe risks making smoking more attractive

Pippa Starr
Jul 18, 2023


Dr Stephen Bright - Edith Cowan University
The 'gateway' theory of drug and alcohol use is flawed: There's no evidence that vaping results in young people who

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Jul 18, 2023


Professor Kate Conigrave - Sydney University
Odd an Aussie doc needs special authorisation to prescribe nicotine for vaping from an australian pharmacy. Docs prescribe far mor

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Jul 18, 2023


Associate Professor George Laking - University of Auckland
The Australian position on vaping is too extreme and, frankly, punitive towards people who smoke

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Jul 18, 2023


Garth Popple - Executive Director of We Help Ourselves (WHOS)
People who smoke will have greater difficulty legally accessing nicotine for vaping, a far safer
alternative

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Jul 18, 2023


Professor Nick Crofts OA - Director, Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health, Melbourne Uni
People who smoke will have greater difficulty legally accessing nicotine for vaping, a far safer
alternative

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Jul 18, 2023


Associate Professor Kathryn Steadman - University of Queensland
The restrictions on access to NVPs should raise serious questions about why Australia minimally regulates sales of tobacco cigarettes, which contribute to the premature deaths of 21 000 Australians each year.

Pippa Starr
Jul 18, 2023


Gino Vumbaca OAM - President, Harm Reduction Australia
Restricting access to nicotine vaping products in Australia will likely cause the black market to continue to import and supply unregulated and potentially unsafe nicotine vaping products to adults and young people

Pippa Starr
Jul 18, 2023


*️⃣Dr Brian Walker MLC
Vaping has been recognised the world over as a valuable quit tool when it comes to cigarettes and nicotine.

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Jul 18, 2023


Dr Kristen McCarter - University of Newcastle
A regulated consumer model would give adult smokers legal access to safer products

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Jul 18, 2023


Dr Karen Counter - Tobacco Treatment Specialist
People who smoke will have greater difficulty legally accessing nicotine for vaping, a far safer
alternative

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Jul 18, 2023


Assoc. Professor Michael Mc Donough - University of Adelaide
There’s no evidence that vaping results in young people who are not at risk of smoking tobacco to take up smoking.

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Jul 18, 2023


Dr Nicole Lee - Curtin University
“We know from a long history of drug prohibition - like alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, that banning or restricting vaping could actually do more harm than good.”

Pippa Starr
Mar 21, 2023

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