Page 2725 - Week 09 - Thursday, 16 September 2021

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In March 2019, the ACT Government provided a submission to the 2019 Commonwealth Department of Health Thematic Review of Tobacco Control Legislation, asking the Department of Health to consider amending the national Tobacco Control legislation to:

• expand the scope of the Plain Packaging legislation to include non-tobacco smoking products that have the potential to encourage children and young people to take up smoking;

• expand the scope of the Tobacco advertising prohibition legislation to explicitly regulate the advertising of non-tobacco smoking products;

• restrict the type of e-liquid flavours and vaping devices permitted to be sold in Australia to those that are less likely to appeal to children and young people; and

• require child-safe packaging for e-liquids.

In January 2020, the ACT Government provided a submission to the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) Proposed amendments to Nicotine in the Poisons Standard (2020), asking the TGA to reject an application by Tobacco company Phillip Morris for the TGA to amend the entry for nicotine in the Poisons Standard to allow heated tobacco products to be sold in Australia. The ACT Government cited a lack of evidence of health benefits, safety concerns for users and bystanders and the likely negative impact on reducing tobacco use in Australia. The TGA rejected Phillip Morris’s application.

In November 2020 the ACT Government provided a submission to the Select Committee on Tobacco Harm Reduction (2020) requesting that:

• Australia’s tobacco control achievements be protected;

• protection of children and young people be prioritised;

• non-nicotine e-cigarettes be subject to regulation to prohibit the sale or import of products and packaging designed to appeal to children and young people; and

• child proof packaging be mandated for e-cigarette products.

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The below listed ACT Government funded services and organisations support Canberrans in overcoming nicotine addiction.

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