An Australian former health minister says New Zealand should be copying Australia's move to make vape products harder to access.
New Zealand's daily vaping rates have surged from one percent of the population ten years ago to more than 11 percent now. Simultaneously, the number of people smoking cigarettes has deflated, from 16.4 percent of the population to 6.9 percent in the past fifteen years.
If New Zealand makes it harder to access vape products, one of the most popular smoking cessation devices, will we risk our smoking rates rising, and with them, our rate of preventable smoking-related deaths?
Emeritus professor of public health at the University of Auckland Ruth Bonita joins Emile Donovan to discuss.
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