Australia’s vape crackdown fails as black market surges
Australia’s crackdown on vaping is failing, with new official figures showing only a trickle of legal sales through pharmacies while the black market thrives.
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New Zealand nears smoke-free status thanks to vaping, says minister
New Zealand is on the cusp of becoming one of the first countries to go officially smoke-free - and it’s thanks to vaping and other safer nicotine alternatives, according to its Associate Minister of Health.
New Zealand gives free vaping starter kits to smokers wanting to quit
The New Zealand government is handing out free vaping starter kits to people wanting to quit smoking.
Sweden becomes first country to be officially declared “smoke free”
The data, released by Sweden’s public health agency today, shows that just 4.5 per cent of Swedish-born adults now smoke - well under the globally recognised benchmark of five per cent to achieve smoke free status.
Going smoke free will add years to global life expectancies, Lancet study reveals
The research, published in scientific journal The Lancet, shows that reducing smoking levels to under five per cent (when a country can officially be declared ‘smoke free’) would increase global life expectancy by one year for men and by 0.2 years for women.