AUSTRALIA'S leading health organisations have united in a strategic alliance to support the Federal Government's vaping reforms.
The Australian Medical Association, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia are backing legislation aimed at restricting the sale, supply, and manufacture of non-therapeutic vapes.
Announcing the alliance, Health Minister Mark Butler emphasised the importance of protecting younger generations from nicotine addiction, saying, "the fight against youth vaping steps up every day, and pharmacists, who are very much on the frontline, have a key role in dispensing therapeutic vapes where clinically appropriate".
Guild President Trent Twomey added, "community pharmacies continue to support evidence-based smoking-cessation and nicotine-dependence treatments, and individuals are more likely to quit for good when counselled by health professionals like pharmacists, doctors, and nurses".
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