{"id":23703,"date":"2020-12-21T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=23703"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T22:46:46","slug":"vaping-news-australia-vape-device-imports-unbanned-nic-e-liquid-prescription-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/23703","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: AUSTRALIA [Vape Device Imports Unbanned &#8211; Nic E-liquid Prescription Only]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"e4chu-0-0\">&#8220;Vapers in Australia will require a prescription for liquid nicotine but Greg Hunt has quietly abandoned a plan to ban the importation of vaping devices after a Coalition revolt. On Monday the Therapeutic Goods Administration gave its final decision requiring a prescription from 1 October, warning that e-cigarettes\u2019 benefit as a quit aid must be weighed against harm to adolescents who may take up smoking. In response, the health minister announced that proposed import restrictions that he was forced to delay in June \u201cwill not be proceeding due to the significant overlap with the TGA decision\u201d. In a statement the TGA warned that \u201cindividuals attempting to import commercial quantities of nicotine e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine may be subject to importation and seizure of products and potential fines under existing regulation\u201d.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>BILL TARLING &#8212; <span style=\"color: #999999\"><em>Basically Hunt had the TGA do his corrupt dirty work in order to keep people smoking, and the tobacco revenue stream coming in<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/dec\/22\/vaping-greg-hunt-abandons-plans-to-ban-importation-of-devices-after-coalition-revolt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Hunt abandons plans to ban importation of devices after Coalition revolt<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20AUSTRALIA%20%5BVape%20Device%20Imports%20Unbanned%20-%20Nic%20E-liquid%20Prescription%20Only%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vapers in Australia will require a prescription for liquid nicotine but Greg Hunt has quietly abandoned a plan to ban the importation of vaping devices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23704,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23703\/revisions\/23704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}