E-cigarettes being sold online despite being outlawed
January 19th, 2009 - 4:45 pm ICT by ANI
- Melbourne, January 19 (ANI): Despite being outlawed in Australia, electronic cigarettes that use nicotine-flavoured vapour are still being sold on the website eBay for hundreds of dollars.
E-cigarettes were demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, and they have been a major attraction for smokers ever since.
With the aid of battery-generated heat, these cigarettes create a flavoured vapour, which is puffed by the user in the same fashion as real smoke.
The devices, commonly from Chinese manufacturers, even have tips that glow when the user inhales, simulating the ember of a real cigarette.
However, safety fears attached to electronic cigarettes still remain, with reports suggesting that they are mostly sold with nicotine instead of flavoured capsules.
“This looks like another insidious, manipulative attempt to hook people on smoking. I”d be very concerned about any attempts to promote smoking, especially to young people,” news.com.au quoted Health Minister Nicola Roxon as saying.
A spokesperson for the Federal Department of Health and Ageing said: “The e-cigarette has not been evaluated for safety or efficacy. Nicotine has well recognised physiological and pathological effects and, as with conventional cigarettes, the e-cigarette would be expected to lead to, and sustain, nicotine addiction.”
On the other hand, eBay Australia’’s spokesman said that the e-cigarette items advertised on the website would immediately be taken down if any of them was found to breach the companys policies on illegal and tobacco products. (ANI)
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January 20th, 2009 at 6:05 am
I reply to your comments section on the article entitled ” E-cigarettes being sold online” dated 19.1.2009
I invite any of your editorial staff or interested parties to contact me on this matter
“I am a e-cigarette user, I chose to stop smoking the 4000 chemicals and over 60 carcinogens that our Government legally allows me to purchase in a corner store. After considerable research I chose to replace tobacco products with a blend of propylene glycol, water,a very small amount of alcohol, food grade flavourings and pure nicotine. THIS is what is in the liquid in e-cigs!!! All of the ingredients are food grade or better. E-cigarettes have to my knowledge have NEVER been marketed towards those who don’t already smoke…this is HARM REDUCTION OF THE FIRST ORDER. I would strongly recommend all readers look at the Heath NZ site which has extensively tested these products ( The only Govt who has) and have declared them a far safer alternative to tobacco and in fact recommend that tobacco be banned and replaced by e-cigarettes ( see http://www.healthnz.co.nz/ecigarette.htm ) and download their extensive testing at http://healthnz.co.nz/RuyanCartridgeReport21-Oct-08.pdf for the FACTS on e-cigarettes… I invite the editors and publishers as well as anyone interested of this article to contact me as I have done extensive research on these items and remain firmly convinced it is NOT in the public interest to ban them whatsoever !!!
I feel it is a shameless act of the government to ban these , based on misinformation and the need to foster a “nanny ” state upon us
Not to mention the fact they haven’t formalised a taxing framework as yet , so they knee jerked and banned it by using a loophole in legislation and making the nicotine a schedule 7 poison…. funny how you can still buy it in a taxable form though ( cigarettes )???
This ban was foisted without public consultation, and turned me into a criminal overnight, businesses were shut down with 14 hours notice,…. I will continue to “vape” knowing it is far far safer for me and those around me…
SHAME ON YOU , when tax dollars over-rides public health and interest ! “