In his recent documentary, Paddy Gower discovered shocking contents in vape juice being sold around the country including alcohol, copper and suspected human saliva.
Let's hope that this is the start of better regulation.
💥 New vaping regulations include:
🟡New Specialist Vape Retailers (SVR) stores must be at least 300 metres away from schools and marae
🟠Vape products and their packaging must only have generic flavour descriptions
🟢Maximum allowable nicotine strength in single-use (disposable) vapes is reduced to 20mg/mL to make them less addictive for youth and non-smokers
🟣All vaping products must have removable batteries and child-safety mechanisms to improve their safety and better protect our young people.
A timeline of how the vaping regulations will be phased in is available on the Ministry of Health website.
In addition to legislative measures being implemented to address youth vaping, the Ministry of Health has a developed health promotion programme Protect Your Breath (PYB) to encourage young people to live vape free lives.
This launched on social media and other places that reach young people late last year. A PYB youth-focused online mindfulness series launched in July and the Later Vaper Arcade – an interactive space where young people will be challenged to re-frame and re-position their thinking on vaping – is coming soon.
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