Sydney— Australia will ban imports of disposablevapesfrom Jan. 1, the government said Tuesday, slamming the devices as recreational products addicting children. The block on single-use vapes is aimed at reversing a "disturbing" increase in vaping among young people, Health Minister Mark Butler sai...
Australia outlawed the sale of " vapes” outside pharmacies earlier this year in some of the world’s toughest restrictions on electronic cigarettes. Now Belgium is leading the EU drive. “We are the first country in Europe to do so,” Vandenbroucke said. ...
reactance theorydescribes how people are motivated to regain freedom when they perceive it as being restricted, heightening the very behaviors intended to be suppressed. It will be interesting to see how effective Australia’s new social media ban is, because we’ve seen that their ban on disp...
This data hints at a potential trajectory for future e-cigarette and new age gateway products users. More than 45 nations which include Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Argentina, Japan, Brazil have implemented e-cigarette bans. In 2019, India commendably banned vaping and e-cigarettes under the ...