Wellington: Increasing interest in vaping among young New Zealanders can damage the government’s crackdown in the tobacco industry and its aim to make people kick habits, health experts and anti-tobacco to say on Friday.
New Zealand plans to ban young people from those who have bought cigarettes in their lives in one of the toughest oppression in the world in the tobacco industry, on the grounds that other efforts to remove smoking too long.
However, new regulations do not cover vaping, which he says is far more dangerous than smoking and can help some people stop smoking.
“It’s fantastic having a smoke-free generation but there are worries around messaging using vaping to stop smoking, and vaping is less dangerous or without dangerous,” said Letitia Harding, Chief Executive Asthma and Breathing Foundation (ARFNZ)), which campaign is on behalf of people with asthma and other breathing conditions.
Vaping involves heating liquids containing nicotine in what is called e-cigarettes and turns it into a steam that users take breath.
The long-term health impact is largely unknown.
A national survey of 19,000 secondary school students last month showed that more than a quarter of a vape regularly, while around 15% reported smoking cigarettes regularly and flammable.
The findings showed a real increase in vaping for two years.
Survey by ARFNZ and the NZ High School Association, an independent organization representing the head teacher, found young people to take high nicotine vape without ever smoking a cigarette, and quickly became nicotine addiction.
“We really have vaping problems and in 15 years we will try to get this young man from Vape,” Harding said.
New Zealand arranged vaping and still relatively liberal, allowing up to 60 milligrams of nicotine per millimeter of fluid compared to the EU which has a close 20 milligrams.
Australia said in October that people would no longer be able to buy nicotine vaping products without recipes.
“In the end, tobacco is one of the deadly substances that people can take and Vape has no harm associated with it, and that is why we take a proportional risk approach to these choices,” said Health Minister Ayesha Verrall on Thursday.
While announcing a smoking ban.
Vaping requested only about 11.6% from New Zealand above 15 smoking cigarettes but the falling level of smoking was associated with increased vaping levels, with around 600 vaping retailers agreed to meet demand.
The World Health Organization said in July that the slim marketing of the tobacco industry attracted young people to e-cigarettes, which could cause tobacco addiction.
Large tobacco companies quickly switch to e-cigarette cigarettes that offer different flavors and make designs that target new generation users.
Marlboro Cigarette Maker Philip Morris now sell IQOS, a heated device but does not burn the ground-up tobacco package, to make aerosols filled with nicotine similar to those produced by e-cigarettes.
British American Tobacco sells e-cigarettes under the Vuse brand, while the Imperial brand markets Blu e-cigarettes.
Vaping can be effective for adults who want to stop but are being targeted at young people, said Associate Professor Collin Tukuitonga, at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Auckland University.
“It is unavoidable that people take vaping because access to tobacco becomes very difficult.
So there needs to be a planned social media campaign and considered about the hazard vaping,” he said.