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Action for Smokefree 2025 lambasts Labour's vaping crackdown, labels policy 'risky'

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Publish Date
Tue, 22 Aug 2023, 5:46pm
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Action for Smokefree 2025 lambasts Labour's vaping crackdown, labels policy 'risky'

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 22 Aug 2023, 5:46pm

An anti-smoking group isn't keen on new Labour election vaping pledges.

It's promising capping stores at 600, tougher penalties for underage sales and mandatory licensing for dairies, if re-elected.

Action for Smokefree 2025 says it's unlikely to stop many children vaping.

Director Ben Youdan says the plan doesn't address other problems.

"It does create the opportunity for growth and a grey market in that illicit supply to young people, because they're already getting it from older kids and adults and other people- it just strengthens that supply chain."

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