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Teenagers vaping addiction

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"Teenagers have urged the Australian government to help them break their nicotine addiction, submissions to a major consultation on vaping reforms reveal. A submission to drug regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration from South Australia’s commissioner for children and young people, Helen Connolly, included comments from some of the 950 teenagers aged 13-to-19 surveyed by her office about vaping. A 17-year-old girl wrote: “Some of us aren’t doing it to look cool, some of us are genuinely struggling with addictions or are using them as coping mechanisms like a stress reliever.” The health minister, Mark Butler, told Guardian Australia that “the status quo on vaping is completely unacceptable”. While he did not respond to questions about when the TGA’s full report of recommendations to the government would be made public and when any reforms would be implemented, he did say that, “We know this problem has exploded over the last several years and we know the urgency to act is this year.” In April, Butler will hold his second tobacco control round table. Guardian Australia understands the TGA recommendations will be discussed then." 03/26/23 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/26/australian-teenagers-urge-government-to-help-them-break-vaping-addiction

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