Senate debates
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Motions
e-Cigarette Products
12:07 pm
Stirling Griff (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
That the Senate—
(a) notes:
(i) recent media reports that teenagers are taking up vaping under the misapprehension it is safe, and that concerned parents support a ban on the supply, sale and use of all e-cigarette products in Australia,
(ii) that it is legal to sell only nicotine-free vaping liquids in Australia,
(iii) that, while the sale of e-cigarette liquids containing nicotine is not legal in Australia, it is legal for a person to import a three-month supply of liquid containing nicotine for personal use,
(iv) that it is a simple task for anyone under the age of 18 to access vaping paraphernalia, including e-liquids containing nicotine, via online retailers, and
(v) a 2018 study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health cautioned vaping may have a "gateway effect" to cigarette use, with two-thirds of the young people surveyed stating a preference for e-cigarettes containing nicotine;
(b) further notes that:
(i) the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) issued a warning to consumers in January 2019 regarding undisclosed by-products and toxic ingredients including nicotine in e-liquid sold in Australia, despite being labelled 'nicotine-free', and
(ii) the TGA warning was prompted by a study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, which stated there is little to no regulation of
e-cigarette manufacture, and the frequency with which nicotine is detected in e-liquids labelled "nicotine-free" was concerning; and
(c) calls on the Federal Government to:
(i) regulate the manufacture and labelling of e-cigarette liquid to ensure safety and consistency of ingredients in imported and
domestically-available products, and
(ii) ban the importation of e-cigarette liquids containing nicotine.
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