{"id":23783,"date":"2020-12-30T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=23783"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:16:40","slug":"vaping-news-australia-vape-prescription-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/23783","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: AUSTRALIA [Vape Prescription Required]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"aq924-0-0\">&#8220;Vaping is an excellent and reduced harm choice for smokers who have tried everything and cannot quit. But for it to work, it has to be readily accessible and treated as a consumer product. We need regulation to ensure safety of vaping devices and ingredients and ensure that vaping is taxed proportionately as a much safer consumer item. But where the government is now, vaping is essentially unregulated, allowing people to import their nicotine liquid from anywhere while vapers are forced to find a doctor to write their prescription, just so they can make the less harmful decision to get off cigarettes. On December 21, the TGA announced that from October 1, 2021, vapers would require a doctor\u2019s prescription to obtain vaping devices and certain other nicotine products. We are the only Western country in the world that requires a prescription for a much less harmful alternative and allows its citizens to buy the deadly product on every corner. In recent years, countless stories have emerged of people smoking packs of cigarettes a day for decades stopping overnight by switching to vaping. It is the right public health decision to make. It is the right moral and business decision to make.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/vaping-is-safer-than-smoking-but-needs-to-be-regulated-20201230-p56qv2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vaping is safer than smoking but needs to be regulated<\/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%20Prescription%20Required%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;Vaping is an excellent and reduced harm choice for smokers who have tried everything and cannot quit. But for it to work, it has to&#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-23783","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\/23783","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=23783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23784,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions\/23784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}