Spotlight on Health Regulation – Vapes and vaping: regulation in Australia

Bridget Wall, Mitch Stein and guest Luke Kelly, a pharmacist and Pharmaceutical Society of Australia NSW Branch President, discuss major reforms to Australia’s regulation of vaping products, which has changed the way vapes can be imported, manufactured, supplied and advertised in Australia, and the impact this has had on pharmacists, as all vapes and vaping products, regardless of whether they contain nicotine or not, now only able to sold in a pharmacy for the purpose of helping people quit smoking or manage nicotine dependence.