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06/10/11 7:23 PM
....to augment SFIO's existing efforts in Europe and Australia/New Zealand....
In some countries, they are only allowed as medical devices. But not in Australia, where they are banned outright.
Victoria, the last Australian state to ban the nicotine cartridges, did so in January. Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon told reporters that e-cigarettes were an "insidious, manipulative attempt to hook people on smoking". The ban followed a decision last October by the National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee, part of the Federal Government's Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Put simply, the TGA refused to classify e-cigarettes as an approved nicotine replacement therapy, like nicotine patches, gums or inhalers, partly because no peer-reviewed scientific study has been done on their ability to wean users off smoking. So, regardless of their potential appeal to the one in four men and one in five women in Australia who smoke, they were outlawed.
January 2009: Australia bans the possession and sale of electronic cigarettes which contain nicotine, citing that "every form of nicotine except for replacement therapies and cigarettes are classified as a form of poison."
In New Zealand, the Ministry of Health has ruled that the Ruyan e-cigarette falls under the requirements of the Medicines Act, and cannot be sold except as a registered medicine.
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