Wild call for ‘vaping areas’ in schools

One advocate has made a wild proposal to install ‘vaping areas’ in schools to help deal with nicotine-addicted youth, as NSW considers how to strengthen laws.

He said vaping was one of the “least harmful” risk behaviours children indulge in, and he personally would “much rather my children or grandchildren vape than smoke or drink drove or used illicit drugs or engaged in sexual violence”.He said vaping was the best option available to a lot of people who wanted to move away from smoking, but he had seen no evidence that vaping led children to take up smoking cigarettes.

Recent changes to the Commonwealth law banned the importation of disposable and non-therapeutic vapes, while vapes prescribed by a doctor or nurse practitioner for someone quitting smoking or managing a nicotine dependence are legal but regulated. Dr Ivers said when nicotine vapes had been prescribed by doctors, plain packaging like that required for cigarettes should be enforced.Dr Mendelsohn said smoking cigarettes was the greater health crisis, suggesting long-term vape use was highly likely to be “considerably less harmful” than smoking, and that “no one has ever died from vaping nicotine”

“We do know that there are 200 odd chemicals contained with vapes, and many of those chemicals are known to cause cancer.

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