Following on from Minister of Health, Mark Butlers announcement of a plan to ban vaping, the TGA has been commissioned to run yet another vaping regulatory change consultation this time aimed at banning vaping altogether in Australia (including non nicotine vaping products currently legally sold in specialist vape stores).

Podlyfe is a company that’s dedicated to harm reduction. As we’ve discussed before, nicotine vapes are an increasingly important tool for “harm reduction”—directly reducing the health impact of smoking combustible tobacco. While vaping isn’t completely harmless, it’s significantly less harmful than smoking cigarettes, and the vapes we stock are designed specifically to be both appealing and satisfying to smokers. In other words, we want to help people quit.

Despite the majority of submissions disagreeing with with the TGAs vaping regulation public consultation run in late 2022, policy makers dismissed these submissions as being "campaign responses from nicotine addicts" and on May 2nd 2023, Australian Federal Minister of Health Mark Butler announced the government plans to double down on a proposed vaping ban in Australia.

Unlike most countries including New Zealand, the United Kingdom, United States, South Africa and the rest of Europe who see vaping as a Tobacco Harm Reduction tool, Australia has had a very precautionary approach to regulating vaping which has meant it is currently scheduled as a prescription only medicine