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Government focused on mitigating risks, striking 'balance' with youth vaping crackdown

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 20 Mar 2024, 5:51pm
Photo/Mark Mitchell
Photo/Mark Mitchell

Government focused on mitigating risks, striking 'balance' with youth vaping crackdown

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 20 Mar 2024, 5:51pm

The Government says it's trying to strike the right balance between helping smokers quit and stopping youth vaping.

Single-use vapes will be banned by the end of the year, and fines for selling vapes to under-18s will rise massively.

The Associate Health Minister has been asked whether the Coalition will enforce minimum prices to put people off buying vapes.

Casey Costello says she's not a fan of that- and she says vapes are still a great smoking cessation tool.

"The alternate risk is that we get the prices back up- and they're equitable to smoking, so we end up with people taking up smoking."

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