Health Minister Mark Butler has shot down suggestions the sales and use of e-cigarettes be regulated similar to tobacco products, saying it would "normalise" the practice.
One of the country's leading tobacco control experts has called for the total ban of all vaping products around the country as uptake among the nation's youth soars.
Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products.
More than a third of Australian primary school teachers and staff say some of their students vape, an alarming new study into e-cigarettes' in schools has revealed.
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Vaping can cause serious health problems and there is little evidence to show its an effective way to help smokers quit traditional cigarettes, Australia's national health council says.
Melbourne mum Paige didn't know what she was looking at when she opened up her seven-year-old son's school bag recently to find a neon green, plastic object inside.
Authorities have blitzed New South Wales shops and convenience stores to seize more than $1 million of illegal vapes and vaping products in just five months.
A NSW Government campaign from its health and education departments has launched today in a bid to educate young people about the dangers of vapes and e-cigarettes.
Health Minister Greg Hunt has delayed the ban on prescription nicotine-based e-cigarettes by six months to January 2021 after feeling the pressure from members of his own party.
US health officials investigating a nationwide outbreak of vaping illnesses have listed, for the first time, the vape brands most commonly linked to hospitalisations.