From 1 October 2021, customers will require a valid prescription to import nicotine vaping goods such as nicotine e-cigarettes, nicotine pods and liquid nicotine, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) stated. In other words, consumers who buy vape goods online from a foreign source will be legally required to get a prescription from an Australian licensed physician.
In the past, GPs who support the use of vaping and nicotine e-juice were reluctant to prescribe and recommend it as a smoking cessation tool because of the lack of approval from the authorities. But now with the RACGP including it in the list of approved cessation tools, it opens up a whole new chapter to those who have been wanting to quit and were previously unsuccessful in doing so.
This move gives Australians who were scared to try vaping due to it being illegal a real shot at quitting cigarettes. This opens the doors to safer and legal ways to purchase nicotine e-juice and protection from black-market products.
Sharon Thomas
June 30, 2020
l was a 40 a day smoker for over 40 years and after 3 months vaping l have not had a smoke now for over 12 months, vaping saves lives yet the gov is trying with all it’s might stop us. It doesn’t make sense to me about the greedy gov trying to make money for the COVID mess.