The Real Costs
Overall Total:
$1.078846 Billion
What are the real costs to tax payers when it comes to vaping?
This page is designed to break down the figures to make it easier for people to see how much of your taxes are being spent on this issue and where your hard earned taxes are going!
While many of the costings listed here include smoking & vaping, it is apparent that by optics at least, the majority of funds in that case are mainly targeting vaping a lot more than smoking!
There are a lot more costs than just teen vaping prevention measures.
There is also the costs of policy, intended or otherwise.
eg. When anti-vaping policy includes bans it encourages a black market to thrive that has additional costs of enforcement and tidying up the mess of a rampant firebombing turf war which is how the market has responded to bans and prohibitive measures on vaping products.
Some of those costs are well explained here>>
Queensland
Total: $28400000
Federal Level Total: $107737000
The Palaszczuk Government has announced $28.4 million over five years as part of its response to a parliamentary inquiry into reducing vaping in Queensland. The Health and Environment Committee’s report, handed down in August, made 14 recommendations aimed at tackling the vaping crisis, including targeting the illegal importation of vapes, and providing greater education for young people.
State Level Total: $811846000
In 2023-24, the NSW Ministry of Health will invest $25 million on tobacco and e-cigarette control in NSW. This includes an investment by Cancer Institute NSW of more than $3 million in the new vaping campaign. An additional $2.5 million is also being invested over the next 12 months to increase services to help young people quit vaping, including a new digital platform, enhancements to the iCanQuit platform and an online learning module for youth services across the state.
The McGowan Government today announced Cancer Council WA has received more than $2.4 million in funding to deliver the Make Smoking History campaign over the next three years. Research also shows that e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products pose a significant risk to the health and wellbeing of the WA population, particularly for young people."The funding will also generate a new program that will address the rise of e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products."
The McGowan Government, through Healthway, has provided $375,000 in funding to Cancer Council Western Australia to develop a digital education campaign highlighting the risks of using e-cigarettes.The funding supports the implementation of a pilot project aimed at improving community awareness regarding the health impacts of e-cigarette use among 14 to 24-year-olds and will complement other State Government initiatives, such as the Do You Know What You're Vaping? awareness campaign. This will be accessible through an online hub and is in addition to the more than $2.4 million in funding provided to deliver the Make Smoking History campaign over the next three years.
The McGowan Government today has announced a funding pool of up to $300,000 is available to schools to help implement projects that will increase the health and wellbeing of their students and the school community. "This funding round is in response to growing concerns about the rising trends in use and harmful effects of vaping as well as the continued importance of promoting healthy eating to children and young people.
Health Minister Roger Cook today announced the Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH) has been awarded $962,500 to deliver a range of public health activities to create a smoke-free Western Australia. "Its role will be particularly important in addressing the use of e-cigarettes and vaping by children and teenagers and limiting the availability of these addictive products.
Federal Govt.
Total: $107737000
Minister for Health Mary-Anne Thomas today announced a $2 million investment to deliver workshops, community events, and develop a peer-to-peer digital platform for young people aged 14 to 25 – to educate young people about the harms of vaping. The two-year project is being delivered by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) in partnership with UNCLOUD.
The 2023–24 Budget will include $737 million to fund a number of measures to protect Australians against the harm caused by tobacco and vaping products.
These measures complement the development of new proposed national tobacco control legislation first announced by the Government in November 2022.
Breakdown (known so far):
$29.5mill to expand specialised programs and services to support Australians to quit smoking and vaping - Source>>
$141 Million to extend and widen the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program to reduce both vaping and smoking among First Nations people
$63.4 Million for new public health information campaigns to prevent and reduce the use of tobacco and e-cigarettes. Source >>
$25 million to the Australian Border Force
$56.9 million to the TGA over two years
$263.8 million over 4 years (and up to $101.1 million per year ongoing) to establish and maintain a national lung cancer screening program, through which at-risk Australians will be able to get a lung scan every 2 years. Source>>
Note: Vaping doesn't cause cancer!
$13.3 million over 4 years for legislative and regulatory reform, as well as testing tobacco products for prohibited ingredients and increased inspections of manufacturers, importers, wholesalers and retailers of tobacco and vaping products. Source>>
The Albanese Government has committed an additional $107 million for the regulation and enforcement of Australia’s world-leading new laws on vaping products.
The $160 million package I'm announcing today has a range of important elements. We will be boosting resources to federal law enforcement authorities, ABF, obviously being one of them, but also the Federal Police, the Criminal Intelligence Commission, AUSTRAC and others who have very significant experience and expertise in tracking down the money.
Victoria
Total: $2000000
New South Wales
Total: $27500000
Western Australia
Total: $4037000
South Australia
Total: $16000000
The state government is further cracking down on the sale of illegal tobacco and vaping products in South Australia, with a significant funding boost to shake up enforcement against this criminal activity. The government is investing more than $16 million over the next four years in the 2024-25 Budget to stifle this growing illegal trade with licensing and enforcement to be driven by officers in Consumer and Business Services (CBS).
Northern Territory
Total: $271000
NT Health Applications now open for Territory youth grants program to prevent substance misuse. A total of $271,000 is available to be awarded in the 2023 – 2024 funding round. This year, two priority focus areas have been identified for applications to help address current issues affecting young people in the NT. These include culturally safe responses to tackle harms associated with vaping and chroming, as well as increasing access to staff training in trauma informed care