Goals to tackle youth vaping rates and secure a smokefree future for Aotearoa New Zealand have taken a significant step forward today with new vaping and smoked tobacco regulations released.
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 and Te Whatu Ora developed health promotion programme Protect Your Breath
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