my dad got lung cancer 15 years after he quit smoking. He didn't vape or anything else. Hypocritical to make vaping illegal without making cigarettes illegal. Importing vape product from China is crazy. They need to regulate/police the manufacturing process and allow Adults to choose for themselves. And shutdown anyone found supplying children.
Just bcs one bad thing is legal, dosen't mean we have to allow new also bad things just bcs.. In that case alcohol should be banned and also every type of medication.. We have to adjust to new info when we get it.. we have to go with science & evidence, not feelings & what may seem "hypocritical". You can thank the US & their fully legal lobbyism for cigarettes still being legal..
I was a smoker for 20 years I vaped for one month’s and magically I stopped smoking ,I couldn’t quit with out the the vape .I tried quitting for 10 years and now I breath oxygen no more smoke .
Me too. Your story is so common. Vaping can save millions of lives but Spotlight would rather run a campaign of hysteria when all we need to do is police regulations banning the sale to children.
Me too, whilst not the nicotine ones. It was the having a smoke habit with a coffee etc I could never break when I have tried to give up in the past. Even nicotine free ones helped me
Me too. Vaping saved my life. They are citing one here and one there that may have died from it, while ignoring the millions a year dying from cigarettes. Vaping has been around for over 20 years. If it was harmful you would have loads of examples by now. I could go on and on, but I've said enough.
Well I’ve smoked for 20 years and recently took up vaping. After years of trying to quit and picking up the vape I haven’t smoked a cigarettes in 6 weeks. 🤷🏻♂️
Far out some of this reporting is insane, I've been vaping for over a decade. I've not even had a cough in the last maybe 5 years and go to the gym 6x a week.. No morning cough or anything like I had as a smoker.
I’m in my early 60’s and a smoker since 13 years old. Since the federal government started to hike up the price by increment to the present $32 per 20 pack of cigarettes, I noticed that vapes were being heavily advertised and endorsed as a means to quit smoking. And I thought, what perfect timing..🤨 Someone developed a diabolical idea into being, and is reaping wealth off the backs of those who fell for their profoundly deceptive and deceitful advertising campaigns (even children were targeted in those campaigns). And I remember seeing and hearing ads on TV, radio, at the cinemas, huge posters everywhere, everywhere we looked, for cigarettes when I was younger… And it’s clearly the *same* campaign. (History repeating itself)😔
But vaping is over 90% less harmful than regular cigarettes. In the States we have no flavors (except some states have menthol). That’s too bad for all of smokers trying to stop. Youth vaping has been plummeting - you have to be 21 and they photograph your id every time. E-cigs and nicotine pods are impossible to get through the mail
So, are you still spending 30 to 60 dollars a day for cigaretts? I swapped when I was spending $150 a week and now vaping costs me less than $10 a week.
If you are referring to Colin Mendelsohn he is a caring GP who has worked in harm reduction (not just from nicotine) in Australia for decades. This report was a hit job.
I'm 56 this year and started smoking when I was twelve as all my friends did. I tried everything over the years to quit but always ended up smoking again and it was typically thirty and up to fifty per day. I tried vaping five years ago and it's overly complex and didn't continue. Six months later after a ton of research I tried again and weaned myself off cigarettes over 30 days. I planned to wait 3 days before a purchased another pack of cigarettes and just never got around to it. Within three months my cough had gone, and my breathing had cleared up. I purchased my juice with added nicotine from either the USA, NZ or the UK and was through Australian sites. These same sites gave me updates on all the changes in the laws as they changed. I use a proper Mod and haven't ever tried and disposable device as I consider it wasteful. I now buy all the raw ingredients and mix my own tobacco flavor and I struggle to understand the point of all the fruity flavors. For two years now I have had the government required prescription to do this which is supported by my doctor. I have been slowly reducing the nicotine in my juice and then it will be time to stop completely. I am an advicate for vaping as it works for me. Do I encourage kids to vape is the same as do I encourage kids to smoke cigaretts. NO NO NO. Taking up smoking all those years ago was the single dumbest thing I've ever done. There is a lot of negative press like this one that wants to ban it completely but isn't the answer. There is already a thriving black market in Australia, and around the world, but these are only in countries that impose bans. Legalize but regulate is the only way forward.
Thank you. The answer is easy. If you smoke change to vape. If you don't smoke don't ever vape. So police the laws to get rid of illegal imports and sales to minors. Then ensure smokers can get access to vapes.
@REDBACK... very interesting... reducing the nicotine. So it doesn't necessarily have to have any nicotine in it, vape that is? I mean nicotine is not entirely the point or reason people vape is it? Could other drugs, medicines, be vaped such as THC or perhaps vitamins?
Australia is the odd one out in its approach to vaping. Why should cigarettes be allowed when vaping is not?! Vaping has enormous benefits and is the most successful smoking cessation device by far. It's so effective it cuts into the govs cigarette taxes, which in Australia are utterly vile. Kids already get their vapes illegally, so the ban only affects adult vapers trying to stay off smoking, and now many are going back - which is what the gov wants.
If your going to ban vapes then you have to ban cigarettes as well it's like cigarettes don't exist vapes are now the enemy but that won't happen the government make way to much money off cigarettes
Don't forget alcohol! It has the colours and the flavours and the bold designs that appeal to kids and it's also a horribly addictive and harmful drug! What flavour gin do you want? Bubba Hubba pink?
I agree vaping certainly isn’t good for you, however, there’s nothing worse than smoking. Vaping is not for children, or any non smoker for that matter. But for the people that have been smoking cigarettes for 15-20 years like myself, vaping is a life saver and a far safer alternative. Vaping saw me quit smoking overnight after 15 years of smoking. Banning vaping products is only making it more difficult for the people who actually need it. I have a prescription for vape products but I buy my own imported products because the prescribed vapes and juices from the pharmacy are extremely expensive and low quality devices. A huge part of why I started vaping in the first place was to reduce costs, so to see vape products at pharmacies costing just as much per week as cigarettes, it’s a no go for me. You’re also limited to a single brand with script vapes. Typical government bureaucracy. This isn’t about the health affects of vaping, it’s about the billions of dollars in tax revenue that the government is missing out on after they discovered vaping has become a multi trillion dollar industry while simultaneously reducing the profits of big tobacco as people switch over, the government wants their slice of the pie and big tobacco is lobbying behind them.
How pathetic is this report? After 35 minutes we have two cases of people dying from vaping. I feel sorry for the families of these people and wish them all the best but I have a comments about what the report omitted: 1. What was in those vapes which caused these deaths? Was it only a flavour, Vegetable Glycerine and Propylene Glycol or did it have dangerous additives like Diacetyl which is known to cause popcorn lung? By the way Diacetyl was used in flavoured popcorn as a flavour enhancer and workers in those factories were getting popcorn lung and they banned it from being used before Vaping! 2. How much did they vape on a daily basis? Was it 300 puffs a day or more? Surely the frequency would have some impact! 3. They estimate over a million people vape but yet don’t tell us ever since it became mainstream hospital admissions to treat vaping related illnesses has dramatically increased in comparison to smoking! 4. No mention of Cancer rates in Vapers compared to Smokers! 5. No mention of Vaping being over 20 years old with patents first filed in 1930 to 2003 when it was successfully fully developed by a Chinese Chemist. They did not mention that no clinical trial in all of that time has been conducted to assess the impacts of groups of people who we could compare between Smokers, Vapers and the control group of non-smoker/vaper - no proof of long term side effects! 6. Propylene Glycol is commonly used in smoke machines, ventolin and other sprayable aerosols in your mouth - no harm from this chemical! 7. This hate toward nicotine is unfounded, it does not cause cancer and is a therapeutic at low dose concentrations relieving stress! This whole thing is a joke, Butler is going to compound this problem by forcing people like me who want the flavours, have prescriptions and want to order their own liquids by the personal importation scheme to enjoy recreationally! Pushing good people to the unregulated black market which will just go further underground like illegal drugs! An by the way, the kids were not vaping as much when we could import eliquids freely but after the prescription model from Greg Hunt the illegal devices and kids using it exploded! If you want to reduce this problem, you have to treat it like tobacco, sold under licence, produced to high quality standards and not sold to under 18’s! It won’t eliminate all the kids doing it but they are experimenting and often stop! The gateway drug effect is a myth, I don’t understand how people can move on from fruity flavoured vaping to disgusting flavoured smoking an then there is the price difference between the two! Lastly Mark Butler’s health advisers have said “the Media have over exaggerated the health effects of Vaping” as just one example - he knows he will not win this! He knows that he will spend money and the problem will not go away! An what is the worst, he won’t admit he is wrong and actually start regulating for money, new industries with jobs and export opportunities overseas to NZ, UK & Canada to name a few countries! I can’t wait for Butler to be humiliated by his failure!
What did you expect from the "journalist" who took a couple of years off reporting to spy for Kerry Stokes and Ben Roberts-Smith. Ross Coulthart was the "journo" who ran the dirty tricks campaign against reporters Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters and the brave soldiers who lifted the lid on Ben Roberts Smith's crimes. That is his standard. This story was pathetic.
Surely it's all the other substances in vapes that do the damage - nicotine is extremely addictive of course; but it's not as harmful as all the other chemicals in either cigarettes or vapes that are inhaled into the lungs. If vapes contained nothing but nicotine, they'd be less dangerous for sure.
For sure. The flavours in those disposables are whack like the chemical variations in the flavours alone would have to add just by chance irritants. Nicotine has health implications definitely. Has vascular constricting tendencies like most stimulants. However i believe all the weird illnesses would most definitely be from flavours hence the differing cases
I managed to quit smoking thanks to vaping. You've got to actively work at it though. I slowly reduced the nicotine content over 6 months or so. When I got to zero it seemed worthless so I stopped. It took planning (mixing liquids to get lower decent but increasingly lower doses of nicotine etc). You also have to want to stop. Without vaping I believe I would never have stopped smoking.
@@ingridakerblom7577 - Some people have the biggest problem in thinking (possably wrongly) that nicotine is the biggest problem with smoking or vaping. The truth is that although nicotine is the 'addictive' ingredient in tobacco the act of setting fire to something and inhaling the smoke it produces 100's of chemicals (and through decades of research into smoking we know that 59 of them are carcinogenic) in vaping there are 4, and are at a vast fraction of the strenght of cigarettes.
6:46 I've literally NEVER had any of these feelings from vaping... Maybe that's the difference between adults and kids vaping... I mean vomiting, really!?
I do. I'm a 35 year old male, and even though I vape a little bit each day when I first started only one inhale in and I would vomit everything I ate before and get a head spin dripping in sweat and shivering with goosebumps. Yes the vomiting is very real.
@@CoogeeBeach2030 What rubbish are you buying? the illegal stuff sold in Australia? Try importing regulated vapes with a prescription and you will see the difference
I’m waiting for the government to highly tax it like cigarettes…… over $700 a week we were spending on cigarettes. I now use regulated nicotine free vapes $100 month and finally quit 8months now. In the past I’ve never lasted only a couple of weeks when I’ve tried to quit. Smoked for over 30rs. I’m planning to try to quit vaping 1/1/24 and yes I know vaping probably not good for me but it has to be better than 40 smokes a day? My lungs certainly feel better for it and no coughing fits
If they weren't vaping they'd be smoking cigarettes. My generation smoked cigarettes as kids, in fact I started at 12 years old. We were the generation that caused stores to put hard plastic up between the customer and cigarettes, or to lock them up, bc we were always stealing whatever packs of smokes we could get our hands on, EASILY! We're also the generation that caused laws to change, where if you were caught smoking under age 18, then you'd get fined. Even if you had a cigarette butt on you, not even smoking it, you'd get a ticket. Cigarettes will eventually be a thing of the past now that the younger generation chooses vaping over smoking I truly believe that. I quit smoking by vaping, in fact, I have no desire to quit either, but ppl keep sticking their nose where it doesn't belong, making it difficult for ADULTS to make their own choices! Vaping is over regulated now and they've made it harder for even adults to buy what we want. They also took away certain flavors of JUUL, while leaving others alone, obviously picking on that brand. Sorry the kids are buying this stuff, but they'd just replace it with something else if someone succeeded at getting vape products banned!
Exactly. Reporter Ross Coulthart would have grown up with his peers smoking at school, but he pretends this was never the case. Most kids who vape regularly would have likely smoked cigarettes otherwise.
Wait another 20 years and they’ll start saying how healthy vaping is the same thing happened to pot nicotine alone isn’t as addictive in vape as it is in cigarettes plus cigarettes have over 600 other addictive chemicals but of course they don’t mention that
@@riverdeep399 No the news report was a stack of lies presented by the reporter (Ross Coulthardt) can only get a job with Kerry Stokes network now because he spent the last few years being paid a fortune to spy for Ben Roberts Smith against the whistleblowing soldiers and journalists who exposed his crimes. The same journalist who reported that the Corby family had never touched marijuana. He is so credible! This was not news. It was one-sided hysteria packaged as truth.
It would have been very nice to hear at least half the stuff that doctor had to say. Like all of his explanations where cut out and replaced with like other people talking.
Correct it isn't. But for cigarette smokers, vaping is a far less harmful way of satisfying the nicotine addiction and breaking that chain. It can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians. If you don't vape don't start. If you smoke cigarettes vape instead.
As for what is in bottles of eliquid (not salt nic) this is what is in them. 4 Ingredients. Not 7000 chemicals as in cigarettes. Vegetable glycerin (VG) and propylene glycol (PG) comprise the vast majority of what’s in any bottle of vape juice and make up about 90 percent - or even more in some cases - of the vapor you inhale and exhale. We cover VG and PG extensively elsewhere in this blog, but we’ll also provide some quick information here in case you’re short on time. So, what is vegetable glycerin? It’s an extremely useful product of the soapmaking industry. Soap, as you may know, comes from fat. The fat can be animal or vegetable in origin. We use the term “vegetable glycerin” in the vaping industry to clarify the fact that animal-based glycerin isn’t used for vape juice. Soap is created in a chemical process called saponification, which is what happens when you add lye to fat. You get two products as a result of that process, and those products are soap and glycerin. Glycerin is an effective moisturizer for the skin, so it’s sometimes added back in to create a mild soap that doesn’t dry the skin. In everyday consumer products, glycerin is used to: Add moisturizing properties to soaps, lotions, haircare products and cosmetics. Prevent shelf-stable foods from drying out or spoiling due to microbial growth. Add sweetness to low-sugar foods and snacks. Almost all vape juice contains both VG and PG. The two liquids differ in their properties, though, and that’s why e-liquid makers put the VG/PG ratios of their products on the bottles. In an e-liquid with a higher VG/PG ratio, the properties of VG will be more evident. The properties of PG will be more evident in an e-liquid with a lower VG/PG ratio. A VG/PG ratio of 70/30, for instance, indicates that the e-liquid’s base is 70-percent VG and 30-percent PG. An e-liquid with a higher VG/PG ratio will have these properties: It’ll generate bigger vapor clouds and will have a fuller mouth feel because VG is much thicker than PG. It’ll have a sweeter overall flavor because the flavor of VG is somewhat sweet. It’ll provide a smoother vaping experience because VG is very low in throat hit. Propylene Glycol Propylene glycol is a liquid that’s synthesized in laboratories from a variety of natural and artificial base compounds. Some of the compounds that can be used for the creation of PG include corn, soy, petroleum and even glycerin. PG has a variety of both human and industrial uses. Since petroleum-derived PG isn’t considered food grade, it’s used for industrial purposes rather than for consumable products like vape juice. In everyday consumer products, propylene glycol is used to: Carry flavors and medicines because it is an effective solvent. Enhance the effectiveness of products such as deodorants and air fresheners because it kills many types of microbes. Provide emulsifying properties in liquid products such as lotions, cosmetics, haircare products, liquid medications and some consumable products such as drink mixes. For a very small percentage of the population, the VG/PG ratio of vape juice is extremely important because those people are allergic to PG. We have to note here that a PG allergy is most likely something that you don’t need to worry about because you probably come into contact with PG every day when you use your lotion, deodorant and shampoo. If you had a PG allergy, you'd probably already know. If those products give you itchy hives, though, the potential for a PG allergy is something that you might want to consider. People who are allergic or sensitive to PG generally prefer to buy vape juice made with 100-percent vegetable glycerin. An e-liquid with a lower VG/PG ratio will have these properties: It’ll generate smaller vapor clouds and will offer more consistent performance with the smallest vaping devices because PG is much thinner than VG. It’ll have a clearer and more defined flavor because PG isn’t sweet and doesn’t have a noticeable flavor of its own. That’s why PG is commonly used as a flavor carrier. It’ll have a stronger throat hit because PG vapor produces a slightly scratchy sensation in the throat. Food-Grade Natural and Artificial Flavors The flavor of a vape juice is incredibly important - it’s the primary reason why you like an e-liquid or not. Vape juice makers work unbelievably hard to develop flavor profiles that will resonate with the vaping community, and the flavor profile of a given e-liquid may come from as many as a dozen or more individual flavoring compounds. Not to sell to kids but because adults like flavors.
Never purchase vape juice from China/Japan and Mexico. Lord only knows what is added to the 'junk'. I vape and have for about 10yrs. I only buy from JVapes in Colorado. They have the ingre on labels and the juice is made in Colorado.
I have smoked and drank beer on and off for most of my life and quit again two months ago and will never do either for the rest of my life which I hope for goodness sake is a long one being 66 at present. As far as being addicted to something yes I AM, food for nutrients and vitamins, air for oxygen, clothes to not embarrass anyone, shelter to keep me out of the rain, heat, etc... water to bless my body that is made mostly of it and it needs to replenish it and that's about it. If you are addicted to anything that is bad for continuing your life it is not that hard to stop it unless it is Heroin or Alcohol because it is possible to die from alcohol abuse if you are a very heavy drinker then it might be good to do it in a hospital. Other than that good old-fashioned willpower that everyone has can work to stop anything. I did it two months ago on beer and cigarettes so anyone who is a human who can read my words can unless you insane or are blind and can't read this. Ha ha
Good for you for overcoming your bad habits that negatively affected your health and life. I hope you can keep it up for the rest of your life. I have never smoked or been addicted to anything other than eating healthy and the gym. And I am in my mid-50"s and happy I never picked up any bad lifestyle habits especially, when I see people my age or younger suffering from poor lifestyle health conditions that I don't suffer from at all.
@@i1uvpreppyxo887 Vaping has not helped save lives. Where do you get this misinformation from?? Vaping is just as toxic and dangerous for your health as smoking is. Vaping is not the solution to quitting smoking as its equally as addictive and dangerous for your health. Good luck with that messed up theory.
if there illegal why are there so many vape pop shops ezy marts etc. opening up everyday all over Australia. Wouldnt it be a start for authorities to go in and take there stock and fine them. Havent seen it happen yet.
Exactly. Police the regulations on illegally imported vapes and the sale to minors, then allow adult smokers access to regulated vaping. But this hysteria campaign is pathetic.
British American tobacco (BAT) is now one of the biggest owner of vape equipment and liquids. I was shocked that they replaced their waning cigarette sales with vapes.
No big tobacco company has sold vapes in Australia! Worldwide they only own 15% of the vaping industry. Big tobacco WANT vaping to fail so their profits from cigarettes live on forever. They own a portion of vaping as insurance in case it replaces far more harmful cigarettes.
Plugs(drug dealers) who buy these disposable vapes off the black market and sell them to these kids that is what are making these kids sick and killing people that is what they are leaving out
In Texas we MUST put the nicotine warning on all labels. We do not want anyone under 21 to purchase vape products. I am super curious at why it is not the parent's fault for their children finding ways to get these products. You have to be 21 to purchase cigarettes, however teens gets those too. Although not as much nowdays. It really does stink that we are literally trying to help people stay out of hospice for lung cancer from cigarettes with 7000 chemicals and people accuse us of all these horrible and calculated things. We just want to break the chain. My grandmother died in hospice. I sat with her as she did. Lung cancer. I decided then that I did not want my grandkids to do the same with me. Then we decided we wanted to help others break the chain and we have for thousands.
Of course but it's a ridiculous argument. A bottle of whisky contains dozens of doses of alcohol compared to a can of beer... but you don't drink 12 bottles of whisky in a session.
@@7newsSpotlight Make sure you put in your report We didn't have the illegal market ( disposable vapes ) before the government put into place the prescription model !
I remember talking to the staff at the local tobacconist about vaping a couple years ago. They straight up told me not to buy random stuff on the internet because of how dangerous it is. That there was safe juice produced in Australia that was basically nicotine and water but you couldn’t buy it here. I still absolutely believe it can be done safely, with water vapour and nicotine being the main ingredients. That won't happen though without strict regulations
None of it is just water vapor. t's all PG/VG, (propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine) in different ratios with other ingredients mixed in - color, flavor, nicotine, water. These things can cause lipoid pneumonia or EVALI in some users. Why it happens to some & not others is not known. Then you have the shady ones with Vitamin E acetate, though that was mostly the cannabis ones from China. These lipids (VG) are safe when swallowed but when inhaled into the lungs you can get lipoid pneumonia as stated already. It's akin to putting vegetable oil in your mouth & sucking it down the wrong pipe accidentally.
I import with a prescription from New Zealand, a product that is regulated, carries warnings and is tamper proof. It has stopped me from smoking cigarettes and I am so thankful.
Gum and patches didn’t work for me. It’s the psychological habit to break. Coffee have a cigarette, after dinner cigarette. Over a pack a day smoker and I’ve been able to give up smoking 8 months now using nicotine free vapes
Because police and governments aren't enforcing the laws already there. And if you are over forty you will remember seeing the hoards of girls and boys smoking cigarettes: which would you prefer?
@@i1uvpreppyxo887 none, but if you rightfully remember, those vile vapes were for the sole purpose of helping people fight nicotine addiction, not for fashion and image purposes. I’m speaking from a child safeguarding background within social services and most of these children have never smoked therefore don’t need vapes 🤦🏻♀️
Tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and cauliflower all have solanine (the nicotine alkaloid) Peppers. Peppers, including bell peppers and spicy peppers, cabbage as well!! the list goes on. And they DO sell nicotine free vapes.
I went to dance college in UK at 18 and TOLD to smoke cigarettes ( 1980s) to keep very underweight. Obviously came addicted and quit - however 15 years later returned to Uk for reunion and saw vaping! I started! I cough etc - was told it was safe. However you have to be 18 - how are kids allowed? I have nicotine free vapes and now find they are dangerous. 😡 Great documentary. Jeez how are they selling these anyway to children- aren’t parents aware or just thick!!!! Cigarettes were much more enjoyable- at least these don’t smell. Guernsey Channel Islands is strictest in GB. These kids would NOT be served here!
4:03 ... just a pure chringe what can i say .... talking about nicotine consumption like they are battling heavy opiate addiction..... hell even benzo, given that one kid sad they can't go without it..... like he's gonna suffer a sezure any moment now.
The proliferation of money is strong and a moral basis for many - especially big bank , big manufacturers, big corporations and big influence. But what will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul ? Money 💵 is seen as the prime representative of wisdom , the deception is stong . 😮😢
Thanks for this information at the end of the day kids in Australia have zero chances as parents have no rights to parenting their own way and schools are full of uneducated teachers who often can’t spell their own name 😢,most of them will go from vaping to ice …. Forget about the old plant growing in the backyard 😂
When I was young many kids tried cigarettes and a significant number never stopped. Most didn't become ice addicts or similar. But many died from smoking. Vaping can end this tragedy
I'm an adult who uses a nicotine vape to prevent me from smoking. I make my own vape juice and the ingredients are simply; Vegetable Glycerine, Polypropylene Glycol, Nicotine Benzoate and Tobacco Flavor. Why not look at kids who smoke and drink?
See, when I asked the local tobacconist about vaping, they straight up told me that you can make your own juice and it is generally much safer. Told me to stay far away from all the random stuff online and that while safe juice that is basically nicotine and water vapour is produced in Australia, that you couldn't buy it here
I am incredibly sorry for these family's loss of loved ones. I would however be interested in an interview that will have a doctor declaring that they state their reputation on the line with claims that they personally witnessed someone dying from vaping. To my knowledge nobody has died from vaping. There was a time that some people got very sick and one did die from black market thc cartridges. Dr. Peters gave a stern warning of what could happen, but he did not even say he personally knew of cases of death from vaping. I would be extremely interested in seeing the autopsy report of Mr. Hansen. If there is an actual claim that the cause of death was mealy vaping I would be so curious to see that for sure. That would be the first documented death from vaping I have ever seen.
As I already wrote this "document" didn't tell that that 71 year old man had smoked over 40 years but if he has taken lets say a year puffs from vape, of course he died from vaping.
Hypocritical to speak of all the flavours and colours that appeal to children when alcohol exists. How many flavours can you buy alcoholic beverages in? How many shapes, sizes and colours of bottle and product? How many designs of labels with bright text and cartoonish characters? Bubba Hubba gin might appeal to kids, no? "But alcohol is part of our culture!" What a shitty culture then! Alcohol is a hard drug, why recieves a free pass and even praise is beyond me! Alcohol is an addictive, carcinogenic, hepatotoxic, neurotoxic- omnitoxic chemical added to products to get people hooked. Lol at the statistics, most of the sales of alcohol are to binge drinkers and alcoholics and children get a hold of alcohol frequently and many young people end up with alcohol poisoning. Why is that not a great concern when they think they are just drinking a fruity, pleasant, stingy drink!
Iam only amazed without the adverts, Vaping become popular through word of Mouth not like cigarettes with cinema adverts & tv Yet l tried a puff when they were at Paddy's Market, doing demos,wasn't for,me ,,werid stuff ,like gas ⛽️ 😮
Absolutely. To call Colin Mendelsohn a friend of Big Tobacco is a hideous lie. He has spent his career working for harm reduction in public health in Australia.
You are right. This reporter (Ross Coulthart) took the last few years off journalism to be paid a fortune by Ben Roberts Smith and Kerry Stokes to run their dirty tricks campaign. He spied on the brave whistleblower soldiers and journalists who exposed Roberts Smith's hideous crimes and tried to bring them down before the trial. As a result he is so discredited in journalism from that little ethical travesty, he can only find a job with Kerry Stokes Channel 7. This report is exactly the product of that sort of ethics (and money). It is full of lies from start to finish.
I'm soo happy because the vape changed me it's healthier and nobody dies and everybody's happier and not coughing and , vaping is the ultimate solution
Exactly. Police the unregulated Chinese driven black market. Then allow regulated safe, tamper proof vapes (with health warnings) to be sold to adults to quit smoking.
@Dopenbenedict 100% I used regulated vapes to quit smoking (over a pack a day smoker 30yrs) Not the nicotine ones. Husband is giving me grief for using vapes now. I watched this to get information on how bad it is but all the info is on the imported illegal ones. I know common sense is that vaping is likely to not be good for me but I assume it is better than 40 smokes a day.
@@melanieshillinglaw3386 100% it is in my opinion . the amount of false info out there is crazy i have my older parents telling me to just get back on the cigarettes now which is crazy . Big tobacco has the media and aus government in its pocket
I don’t know how bad is vaping but I tried an e-cigarette once and my stomach went crazy I tried again and the feeling wasn’t good but it was not good enough to not use it again I continue to smoking and fortunately I stop smoking a little while ago cold Turkey
These people saying its safe have a 100% interest in seeing children get addicted. The evidence of the popularity with children and the increase in addicts due to vaping is irrefutable. They WANT KIDS vaping.
That is a flat out lie. No person promoting vapes as a stop smoking method want them available to children. Governments and police are the ones at fault: the laws are there why aren't they policed.
Can't understand why people have problems giving up smoking. It's very easy. Just stop. I did it with great success many many times. Then only one time I was getting tired of trying to give up and didn't start again. That was some years ago.
Not enough emphasis on non nicotine vape juices etc, these are all disposable vapes, yes a problem but dismissible by those who smoke vape juices out of their own reusable vape..
The villainization and montage surrounding the doctor in this episode is a complete joke. All that guy is doing is reporting what he is (very well) educated about and defending vaping as an excellent alternative to smoking tobacco. Anyways, a compliment for allowing him the last word also on the hit job -- hehe!
I agree. Shut the shops, police the laws and stop importation of unregulated vapes from China and especially the sale to children. But don't stop smokers from access to a therapy that could save the lives of tens of thousands of Australians.
We allowed smoke cigarettes in class no hiding this school BROADMEDOWS COLLAGE IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA. YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL BE HELD RESONSABLE FOR MANY
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN HE WAS A SHILL WHEN PRE APROVED w h i s t l e b l o w e r WENT TO HIM..I quit snoking for vape after decades of smoking, and I don't cough up any crap anymore. This is PAID FOR BY BIG TOBACCO LMAO edit my vape ingredients are pg,vg,nicotine, THIS IS PROVABLE (easily) that they are straight LYING
my dad got lung cancer 15 years after he quit smoking. He didn't vape or anything else. Hypocritical to make vaping illegal without making cigarettes illegal. Importing vape product from China is crazy. They need to regulate/police the manufacturing process and allow Adults to choose for themselves. And shutdown anyone found supplying children.
100%
Just bcs one bad thing is legal, dosen't mean we have to allow new also bad things just bcs..
In that case alcohol should be banned and also every type of medication..
We have to adjust to new info when we get it.. we have to go with science & evidence, not feelings & what may seem "hypocritical".
You can thank the US & their fully legal lobbyism for cigarettes still being legal..
I was a smoker for 20 years I vaped for one month’s and magically I stopped smoking ,I couldn’t quit with out the the vape .I tried quitting for 10 years and now I breath oxygen no more smoke .
Me too!
Me too. Your story is so common. Vaping can save millions of lives but Spotlight would rather run a campaign of hysteria when all we need to do is police regulations banning the sale to children.
Me too, whilst not the nicotine ones. It was the having a smoke habit with a coffee etc I could never break when I have tried to give up in the past. Even nicotine free ones helped me
Me too. Vaping saved my life. They are citing one here and one there that may have died from it, while ignoring the millions a year dying from cigarettes. Vaping has been around for over 20 years. If it was harmful you would have loads of examples by now. I could go on and on, but I've said enough.
Well I’ve smoked for 20 years and recently took up vaping. After years of trying to quit and picking up the vape I haven’t smoked a cigarettes in 6 weeks. 🤷🏻♂️
Kindergarteners using them.. Really, come on now.
I know right
Oh the children
Typical Australia no vaping
But you can go and buy cigarettes at any shop
What a hack job
Government hate not getting dibs out of vapes lol
Far out some of this reporting is insane, I've been vaping for over a decade. I've not even had a cough in the last maybe 5 years and go to the gym 6x a week.. No morning cough or anything like I had as a smoker.
I’m in my early 60’s and a smoker since 13 years old.
Since the federal government started to hike up the price by increment to the present $32 per 20 pack of cigarettes, I noticed that vapes were being heavily advertised and endorsed as a means to quit smoking.
And I thought, what perfect timing..🤨
Someone developed a diabolical idea into being, and is reaping wealth off the backs of those who fell for their profoundly deceptive and deceitful advertising campaigns (even children were targeted in those campaigns).
And I remember seeing and hearing ads on TV, radio, at the cinemas, huge posters everywhere, everywhere we looked, for cigarettes when I was younger…
And it’s clearly the *same* campaign.
(History repeating itself)😔
But vaping is over 90% less harmful than regular cigarettes. In the States we have no flavors (except some states have menthol). That’s too bad for all of smokers trying to stop. Youth vaping has been plummeting - you have to be 21 and they photograph your id every time. E-cigs and nicotine pods are impossible to get through the mail
Make it they'll take it
Gullible people r there to get rich off
@@MKConnecticut puff away then
Inhale deeply
So, are you still spending 30 to 60 dollars a day for cigaretts? I swapped when I was spending $150 a week and now vaping costs me less than $10 a week.
@@MKConnecticut My son is in the states & they do sell tons of flavors
Never trust an arrogant doctor..
If you are referring to Colin Mendelsohn he is a caring GP who has worked in harm reduction (not just from nicotine) in Australia for decades. This report was a hit job.
Ask 40 doctors...and..
...get 40 different solutions.
I'm 56 this year and started smoking when I was twelve as all my friends did. I tried everything over the years to quit but always ended up smoking again and it was typically thirty and up to fifty per day. I tried vaping five years ago and it's overly complex and didn't continue. Six months later after a ton of research I tried again and weaned myself off cigarettes over 30 days. I planned to wait 3 days before a purchased another pack of cigarettes and just never got around to it. Within three months my cough had gone, and my breathing had cleared up.
I purchased my juice with added nicotine from either the USA, NZ or the UK and was through Australian sites. These same sites gave me updates on all the changes in the laws as they changed. I use a proper Mod and haven't ever tried and disposable device as I consider it wasteful. I now buy all the raw ingredients and mix my own tobacco flavor and I struggle to understand the point of all the fruity flavors. For two years now I have had the government required prescription to do this which is supported by my doctor. I have been slowly reducing the nicotine in my juice and then it will be time to stop completely. I am an advicate for vaping as it works for me.
Do I encourage kids to vape is the same as do I encourage kids to smoke cigaretts. NO NO NO. Taking up smoking all those years ago was the single dumbest thing I've ever done. There is a lot of negative press like this one that wants to ban it completely but isn't the answer. There is already a thriving black market in Australia, and around the world, but these are only in countries that impose bans. Legalize but regulate is the only way forward.
Thank you. The answer is easy. If you smoke change to vape. If you don't smoke don't ever vape. So police the laws to get rid of illegal imports and sales to minors. Then ensure smokers can get access to vapes.
@REDBACK... very interesting... reducing the nicotine. So it doesn't necessarily have to have any nicotine in it, vape that is? I mean nicotine is not entirely the point or reason people vape is it? Could other drugs, medicines, be vaped such as THC or perhaps vitamins?
Australia is the odd one out in its approach to vaping. Why should cigarettes be allowed when vaping is not?! Vaping has enormous benefits and is the most successful smoking cessation device by far. It's so effective it cuts into the govs cigarette taxes, which in Australia are utterly vile.
Kids already get their vapes illegally, so the ban only affects adult vapers trying to stay off smoking, and now many are going back - which is what the gov wants.
If your going to ban vapes then you have to ban cigarettes as well it's like cigarettes don't exist vapes are now the enemy but that won't happen the government make way to much money off cigarettes
Don't forget alcohol! It has the colours and the flavours and the bold designs that appeal to kids and it's also a horribly addictive and harmful drug! What flavour gin do you want? Bubba Hubba pink?
fear-inducing nonsense. B.S
I been vaping for 14 years with no side affects, black market vapes are the problem.
I agree vaping certainly isn’t good for you, however, there’s nothing worse than smoking. Vaping is not for children, or any non smoker for that matter. But for the people that have been smoking cigarettes for 15-20 years like myself, vaping is a life saver and a far safer alternative. Vaping saw me quit smoking overnight after 15 years of smoking. Banning vaping products is only making it more difficult for the people who actually need it. I have a prescription for vape products but I buy my own imported products because the prescribed vapes and juices from the pharmacy are extremely expensive and low quality devices. A huge part of why I started vaping in the first place was to reduce costs, so to see vape products at pharmacies costing just as much per week as cigarettes, it’s a no go for me. You’re also limited to a single brand with script vapes. Typical government bureaucracy. This isn’t about the health affects of vaping, it’s about the billions of dollars in tax revenue that the government is missing out on after they discovered vaping has become a multi trillion dollar industry while simultaneously reducing the profits of big tobacco as people switch over, the government wants their slice of the pie and big tobacco is lobbying behind them.
Absolutely spot on
Precisely.
I am astounded that a patients medical information is denied and withheld the patient. How is this legal, much less moral
You have to pay BIG $$$$ for your own records if you dont "specifically" request a copy - imnediately. Duly warned
Wish they would follow this with a story on the dangers of smoking 🚬 cigarettes .
errrr....how come they don't ban ciggies? Need tax money no?
Not alcohol? 🤔😏 i'm guessing ur an alcholic, right?
How pathetic is this report? After 35 minutes we have two cases of people dying from vaping. I feel sorry for the families of these people and wish them all the best but I have a comments about what the report omitted:
1. What was in those vapes which caused these deaths? Was it only a flavour, Vegetable Glycerine and Propylene Glycol or did it have dangerous additives like Diacetyl which is known to cause popcorn lung? By the way Diacetyl was used in flavoured popcorn as a flavour enhancer and workers in those factories were getting popcorn lung and they banned it from being used before Vaping!
2. How much did they vape on a daily basis? Was it 300 puffs a day or more? Surely the frequency would have some impact!
3. They estimate over a million people vape but yet don’t tell us ever since it became mainstream hospital admissions to treat vaping related illnesses has dramatically increased in comparison to smoking!
4. No mention of Cancer rates in Vapers compared to Smokers!
5. No mention of Vaping being over 20 years old with patents first filed in 1930 to 2003 when it was successfully fully developed by a Chinese Chemist. They did not mention that no clinical trial in all of that time has been conducted to assess the impacts of groups of people who we could compare between Smokers, Vapers and the control group of non-smoker/vaper - no proof of long term side effects!
6. Propylene Glycol is commonly used in smoke machines, ventolin and other sprayable aerosols in your mouth - no harm from this chemical!
7. This hate toward nicotine is unfounded, it does not cause cancer and is a therapeutic at low dose concentrations relieving stress!
This whole thing is a joke, Butler is going to compound this problem by forcing people like me who want the flavours, have prescriptions and want to order their own liquids by the personal importation scheme to enjoy recreationally! Pushing good people to the unregulated black market which will just go further underground like illegal drugs!
An by the way, the kids were not vaping as much when we could import eliquids freely but after the prescription model from Greg Hunt the illegal devices and kids using it exploded!
If you want to reduce this problem, you have to treat it like tobacco, sold under licence, produced to high quality standards and not sold to under 18’s! It won’t eliminate all the kids doing it but they are experimenting and often stop!
The gateway drug effect is a myth, I don’t understand how people can move on from fruity flavoured vaping to disgusting flavoured smoking an then there is the price difference between the two!
Lastly Mark Butler’s health advisers have said “the Media have over exaggerated the health effects of Vaping” as just one example - he knows he will not win this! He knows that he will spend money and the problem will not go away!
An what is the worst, he won’t admit he is wrong and actually start regulating for money, new industries with jobs and export opportunities overseas to NZ, UK & Canada to name a few countries!
I can’t wait for Butler to be humiliated by his failure!
What did you expect from the "journalist" who took a couple of years off reporting to spy for Kerry Stokes and Ben Roberts-Smith. Ross Coulthart was the "journo" who ran the dirty tricks campaign against reporters Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters and the brave soldiers who lifted the lid on Ben Roberts Smith's crimes. That is his standard. This story was pathetic.
Surely it's all the other substances in vapes that do the damage - nicotine is extremely addictive of course; but it's not as harmful as all the other chemicals in either cigarettes or vapes that are inhaled into the lungs. If vapes contained nothing but nicotine, they'd be less dangerous for sure.
You understand this... why doesn't Channel 7
For sure. The flavours in those disposables are whack like the chemical variations in the flavours alone would have to add just by chance irritants. Nicotine has health implications definitely. Has vascular constricting tendencies like most stimulants. However i believe all the weird illnesses would most definitely be from flavours hence the differing cases
I managed to quit smoking thanks to vaping. You've got to actively work at it though. I slowly reduced the nicotine content over 6 months or so. When I got to zero it seemed worthless so I stopped. It took planning (mixing liquids to get lower decent but increasingly lower doses of nicotine etc). You also have to want to stop. Without vaping I believe I would never have stopped smoking.
Why? Was it the difference to have this process were you mix etc?
@@ingridakerblom7577 - Some people have the biggest problem in thinking (possably wrongly) that nicotine is the biggest problem with smoking or vaping.
The truth is that although nicotine is the 'addictive' ingredient in tobacco the act of setting fire to something and inhaling the smoke it produces 100's of chemicals (and through decades of research into smoking we know that 59 of them are carcinogenic) in vaping there are 4, and are at a vast fraction of the strenght of cigarettes.
6:46 I've literally NEVER had any of these feelings from vaping... Maybe that's the difference between adults and kids vaping... I mean vomiting, really!?
I do. I'm a 35 year old male, and even though I vape a little bit each day when I first started only one inhale in and I would vomit everything I ate before and get a head spin dripping in sweat and shivering with goosebumps. Yes the vomiting is very real.
I feel nausea everytime i vape and still cant stop. i better smoke cigarretes then vape
@@CoogeeBeach2030 What rubbish are you buying? the illegal stuff sold in Australia? Try importing regulated vapes with a prescription and you will see the difference
I'm 24 and if I overdose on vape I puke
@@inuken9561if you have too much beer you puke too. Also chocolate milkshakes, coffee and marshmallows. Know your limits.
I’m waiting for the government to highly tax it like cigarettes…… over $700 a week we were spending on cigarettes.
I now use regulated nicotine free vapes $100 month and finally quit 8months now.
In the past I’ve never lasted only a couple of weeks when I’ve tried to quit. Smoked for over 30rs.
I’m planning to try to quit vaping 1/1/24 and yes I know vaping probably not good for me but it has to be better than 40 smokes a day? My lungs certainly feel better for it and no coughing fits
Additionally if I scored lung cancer now would it be from 30 years smoking or 1yr vaping? Narrative would be vaping in this show
Thats really bad journalism.. rubbish...
If they weren't vaping they'd be smoking cigarettes. My generation smoked cigarettes as kids, in fact I started at 12 years old. We were the generation that caused stores to put hard plastic up between the customer and cigarettes, or to lock them up, bc we were always stealing whatever packs of smokes we could get our hands on, EASILY! We're also the generation that caused laws to change, where if you were caught smoking under age 18, then you'd get fined. Even if you had a cigarette butt on you, not even smoking it, you'd get a ticket. Cigarettes will eventually be a thing of the past now that the younger generation chooses vaping over smoking I truly believe that. I quit smoking by vaping, in fact, I have no desire to quit either, but ppl keep sticking their nose where it doesn't belong, making it difficult for ADULTS to make their own choices! Vaping is over regulated now and they've made it harder for even adults to buy what we want. They also took away certain flavors of JUUL, while leaving others alone, obviously picking on that brand. Sorry the kids are buying this stuff, but they'd just replace it with something else if someone succeeded at getting vape products banned!
This 💯!
Exactly. Reporter Ross Coulthart would have grown up with his peers smoking at school, but he pretends this was never the case. Most kids who vape regularly would have likely smoked cigarettes otherwise.
Wait another 20 years and they’ll start saying how healthy vaping is the same thing happened to pot nicotine alone isn’t as addictive in vape as it is in cigarettes plus cigarettes have over 600 other addictive chemicals but of course they don’t mention that
It weird because people in my country vaping for few years and still not have to go to hospital or have a died case
Nicotine does not make you sick! These kids are just starving for pathetic attention
knocked it on the head there mate
the news report flew over your head then.
@@riverdeep399 No the news report was a stack of lies presented by the reporter (Ross Coulthardt) can only get a job with Kerry Stokes network now because he spent the last few years being paid a fortune to spy for Ben Roberts Smith against the whistleblowing soldiers and journalists who exposed his crimes. The same journalist who reported that the Corby family had never touched marijuana. He is so credible! This was not news. It was one-sided hysteria packaged as truth.
Exactly there acting like they're suffering from opiate withdrawals
It would have been very nice to hear at least half the stuff that doctor had to say. Like all of his explanations where cut out and replaced with like other people talking.
Watched so much Ross on UFOs i kept expecting a secret government vape tech whistle blowers lol
Bro even looks like an alien
How can breathing anything foreign into your lungs be considered anything other than damaging to the health of lungs
Correct it isn't. But for cigarette smokers, vaping is a far less harmful way of satisfying the nicotine addiction and breaking that chain. It can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians. If you don't vape don't start. If you smoke cigarettes vape instead.
And this is why you should only smoke the greens 🍃 it can never hurt you and it's healthy af 💜
As for what is in bottles of eliquid (not salt nic) this is what is in them. 4 Ingredients. Not 7000 chemicals as in cigarettes. Vegetable glycerin (VG) and propylene glycol (PG) comprise the vast majority of what’s in any bottle of vape juice and make up about 90 percent - or even more in some cases - of the vapor you inhale and exhale. We cover VG and PG extensively elsewhere in this blog, but we’ll also provide some quick information here in case you’re short on time.
So, what is vegetable glycerin? It’s an extremely useful product of the soapmaking industry. Soap, as you may know, comes from fat. The fat can be animal or vegetable in origin. We use the term “vegetable glycerin” in the vaping industry to clarify the fact that animal-based glycerin isn’t used for vape juice. Soap is created in a chemical process called saponification, which is what happens when you add lye to fat. You get two products as a result of that process, and those products are soap and glycerin. Glycerin is an effective moisturizer for the skin, so it’s sometimes added back in to create a mild soap that doesn’t dry the skin.
In everyday consumer products, glycerin is used to:
Add moisturizing properties to soaps, lotions, haircare products and cosmetics.
Prevent shelf-stable foods from drying out or spoiling due to microbial growth.
Add sweetness to low-sugar foods and snacks.
Almost all vape juice contains both VG and PG. The two liquids differ in their properties, though, and that’s why e-liquid makers put the VG/PG ratios of their products on the bottles. In an e-liquid with a higher VG/PG ratio, the properties of VG will be more evident. The properties of PG will be more evident in an e-liquid with a lower VG/PG ratio. A VG/PG ratio of 70/30, for instance, indicates that the e-liquid’s base is 70-percent VG and 30-percent PG.
An e-liquid with a higher VG/PG ratio will have these properties:
It’ll generate bigger vapor clouds and will have a fuller mouth feel because VG is much thicker than PG.
It’ll have a sweeter overall flavor because the flavor of VG is somewhat sweet.
It’ll provide a smoother vaping experience because VG is very low in throat hit.
Propylene Glycol
Propylene glycol is a liquid that’s synthesized in laboratories from a variety of natural and artificial base compounds. Some of the compounds that can be used for the creation of PG include corn, soy, petroleum and even glycerin. PG has a variety of both human and industrial uses. Since petroleum-derived PG isn’t considered food grade, it’s used for industrial purposes rather than for consumable products like vape juice.
In everyday consumer products, propylene glycol is used to:
Carry flavors and medicines because it is an effective solvent.
Enhance the effectiveness of products such as deodorants and air fresheners because it kills many types of microbes.
Provide emulsifying properties in liquid products such as lotions, cosmetics, haircare products, liquid medications and some consumable products such as drink mixes.
For a very small percentage of the population, the VG/PG ratio of vape juice is extremely important because those people are allergic to PG. We have to note here that a PG allergy is most likely something that you don’t need to worry about because you probably come into contact with PG every day when you use your lotion, deodorant and shampoo. If you had a PG allergy, you'd probably already know. If those products give you itchy hives, though, the potential for a PG allergy is something that you might want to consider. People who are allergic or sensitive to PG generally prefer to buy vape juice made with 100-percent vegetable glycerin.
An e-liquid with a lower VG/PG ratio will have these properties:
It’ll generate smaller vapor clouds and will offer more consistent performance with the smallest vaping devices because PG is much thinner than VG.
It’ll have a clearer and more defined flavor because PG isn’t sweet and doesn’t have a noticeable flavor of its own. That’s why PG is commonly used as a flavor carrier.
It’ll have a stronger throat hit because PG vapor produces a slightly scratchy sensation in the throat.
Food-Grade Natural and Artificial Flavors
The flavor of a vape juice is incredibly important - it’s the primary reason why you like an e-liquid or not. Vape juice makers work unbelievably hard to develop flavor profiles that will resonate with the vaping community, and the flavor profile of a given e-liquid may come from as many as a dozen or more individual flavoring compounds. Not to sell to kids but because adults like flavors.
@@moto-03 how absurd you sound... Oh my.....
Copy & paste
@@brerobinson3458 FACTS. It lists facts!
7News is shock horror. Kids should not vape, adults can if they wish.
Never purchase vape juice from China/Japan and Mexico. Lord only knows what is added to the 'junk'. I vape and have for about 10yrs. I only buy from JVapes in Colorado. They have the ingre on labels and the juice is made in Colorado.
Canada has Vapes that are clean.
Exactly. Regulated vape products that carry warnings, are tamper proof and are a fraction of the danger of cigarettes.
I’m so addicted I hate it
I have smoked and drank beer on and off for most of my life and quit again two months ago and will never do either for the rest of my life which I hope for goodness sake is a long one being 66 at present. As far as being addicted to something yes I AM, food for nutrients and vitamins, air for oxygen, clothes to not embarrass anyone, shelter to keep me out of the rain, heat, etc... water to bless my body that is made mostly of it and it needs to replenish it and that's about it. If you are addicted to anything that is bad for continuing your life it is not that hard to stop it unless it is Heroin or Alcohol because it is possible to die from alcohol abuse if you are a very heavy drinker then it might be good to do it in a hospital. Other than that good old-fashioned willpower that everyone has can work to stop anything. I did it two months ago on beer and cigarettes so anyone who is a human who can read my words can unless you insane or are blind and can't read this. Ha ha
Good for you for overcoming your bad habits that negatively affected your health and life. I hope you can keep it up for the rest of your life. I have never smoked or been addicted to anything other than eating healthy and the gym. And I am in my mid-50"s and happy I never picked up any bad lifestyle habits especially, when I see people my age or younger suffering from poor lifestyle health conditions that I don't suffer from at all.
Doesn't work for everyone. Vaping has helped save so many lives for that reason. All smokers deserve the means to help them quit.
@@i1uvpreppyxo887 Vaping has not helped save lives. Where do you get this misinformation from?? Vaping is just as toxic and dangerous for your health as smoking is. Vaping is not the solution to quitting smoking as its equally as addictive and dangerous for your health. Good luck with that messed up theory.
@@SilkyShishtry reading what the Royal College of Physicians in the U.K have to say. Has less than 5% the harm compared to tobacco cigarettes.
I think the dog collar is more concerning
if there illegal why are there so many vape pop shops ezy marts etc. opening up everyday all over Australia. Wouldnt it be a start for authorities to go in and take there stock and fine them. Havent seen it happen yet.
Exactly. Police the regulations on illegally imported vapes and the sale to minors, then allow adult smokers access to regulated vaping. But this hysteria campaign is pathetic.
This "document" didn't let Colin Mendelson say that 71 year old man had smoked over 40 years!!!
Let's talk about all the excess deaths you are experiencing related to the other thing.
cooker alert
British American tobacco (BAT) is now one of the biggest owner of vape equipment and liquids. I was shocked that they replaced their waning cigarette sales with vapes.
So what? If big tobacco is moving towards safer alternatives than that's a good thing.
No big tobacco company has sold vapes in Australia! Worldwide they only own 15% of the vaping industry. Big tobacco WANT vaping to fail so their profits from cigarettes live on forever. They own a portion of vaping as insurance in case it replaces far more harmful cigarettes.
Where exactly are kindy kids getting vapes from? Seems a bit over the top & alarmist
Plugs(drug dealers) who buy these disposable vapes off the black market and sell them to these kids that is what are making these kids sick and killing people that is what they are leaving out
In Texas we MUST put the nicotine warning on all labels. We do not want anyone under 21 to purchase vape products. I am super curious at why it is not the parent's fault for their children finding ways to get these products. You have to be 21 to purchase cigarettes, however teens gets those too. Although not as much nowdays. It really does stink that we are literally trying to help people stay out of hospice for lung cancer from cigarettes with 7000 chemicals and people accuse us of all these horrible and calculated things. We just want to break the chain. My grandmother died in hospice. I sat with her as she did. Lung cancer. I decided then that I did not want my grandkids to do the same with me. Then we decided we wanted to help others break the chain and we have for thousands.
The mods you tested were salt nic vapes. If you were to test a bottle of eliquid your results would be drastically different.
Of course but it's a ridiculous argument. A bottle of whisky contains dozens of doses of alcohol compared to a can of beer... but you don't drink 12 bottles of whisky in a session.
I send my condolences to all the people that have lost family members or friends to vaping tha ✌🏻🇬🇧✌🏻
Nobody has though
That's not many condolences as there aren't deaths from nicotine vaping, Millions from smoking though which presumably you are ok with.
Literally nobody has this is just a tax grab
I'm watching this for school work feels weird
Hope we can help you get good marks!
same gurl
@@7newsSpotlight Make sure you put in your report
We didn't have the illegal market ( disposable vapes ) before the government put into place the prescription model !
"Kindy students are vaping" shows video of baby having a vape forced into its mouth, you can't make this shit up typical media broooooooo
I'm shocked. I've never smoked or vaped but I've noticed kids here in Greece are vaping.
Sorry, but the guy and girl at 10:55/11:01 look like late 20s. I wouldn't ask them for their age if I'd sell vapes...
I remember talking to the staff at the local tobacconist about vaping a couple years ago. They straight up told me not to buy random stuff on the internet because of how dangerous it is. That there was safe juice produced in Australia that was basically nicotine and water but you couldn’t buy it here. I still absolutely believe it can be done safely, with water vapour and nicotine being the main ingredients. That won't happen though without strict regulations
Or just don't?! If you're gouching for nicotine that bad, chew gum or use a patch?
@riverdeep399 Not every method works for every smoker. The more options they have, the more chances they have to find something that works for them
None of it is just water vapor. t's all PG/VG, (propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine) in different ratios with other ingredients mixed in - color, flavor, nicotine, water. These things can cause lipoid pneumonia or EVALI in some users. Why it happens to some & not others is not known. Then you have the shady ones with Vitamin E acetate, though that was mostly the cannabis ones from China. These lipids (VG) are safe when swallowed but when inhaled into the lungs you can get lipoid pneumonia as stated already. It's akin to putting vegetable oil in your mouth & sucking it down the wrong pipe accidentally.
I import with a prescription from New Zealand, a product that is regulated, carries warnings and is tamper proof. It has stopped me from smoking cigarettes and I am so thankful.
Gum and patches didn’t work for me. It’s the psychological habit to break. Coffee have a cigarette, after dinner cigarette. Over a pack a day smoker and I’ve been able to give up smoking 8 months now using nicotine free vapes
Hopefully Ross is doing a special on 7 about the intelligence officer Dave Grush and the uap claims
Sorry, he's too busy taking money from Ben Roberts Smith and Kerry Stokes to spy on the brave soldiers and journalists who exposed him
8:14 so... Are they trying to get us to go back to cigarettes or what??
The hoards of young girls I’m witnessing with a filthy, disgusting vape in their mouths is disgusting and vile. WHY 🤦🏻♀️
Because police and governments aren't enforcing the laws already there. And if you are over forty you will remember seeing the hoards of girls and boys smoking cigarettes: which would you prefer?
@@i1uvpreppyxo887 none, but if you rightfully remember, those vile vapes were for the sole purpose of helping people fight nicotine addiction, not for fashion and image purposes. I’m speaking from a child safeguarding background within social services and most of these children have never smoked therefore don’t need vapes 🤦🏻♀️
How about don't worry if people choose to vape
I'm trying to quit and what I'm all over Guatemala 🇬🇹
Tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and cauliflower all have solanine (the nicotine alkaloid) Peppers. Peppers, including bell peppers and spicy peppers, cabbage as well!! the list goes on.
And they DO sell nicotine free vapes.
I went to dance college in UK at 18 and TOLD to smoke cigarettes ( 1980s) to keep very underweight. Obviously came addicted and quit - however 15 years later returned to Uk for reunion and saw vaping! I started! I cough etc - was told it was safe. However you have to be 18 - how are kids allowed? I have nicotine free vapes and now find they are dangerous. 😡 Great documentary. Jeez how are they selling these anyway to children- aren’t parents aware or just thick!!!! Cigarettes were much more enjoyable- at least these don’t smell. Guernsey Channel Islands is strictest in GB. These kids would NOT be served here!
How can the teacher say you can tell whose vaped...it leaves a massive mist 🤔
4:03 ... just a pure chringe what can i say .... talking about nicotine consumption like they are battling heavy opiate addiction..... hell even benzo, given that one kid sad they can't go without it.....
like he's gonna suffer a sezure any moment now.
What babies their getting it from their parents kindergarten kids can’t get from anywhere else but from other then mum and dad
exactly , you can clearly see an adult womans hand force feeding her infant child a vape . any parent could technically do this with anything
Now do the vaccine.
The proliferation of money is strong and a moral basis for many - especially big bank , big manufacturers, big corporations and big influence. But what will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul ? Money 💵 is seen as the prime representative of wisdom , the deception is stong . 😮😢
Thanks for this information at the end of the day kids in Australia have zero chances as parents have no rights to parenting their own way and schools are full of uneducated teachers who often can’t spell their own name 😢,most of them will go from vaping to ice …. Forget about the old plant growing in the backyard 😂
When I was young many kids tried cigarettes and a significant number never stopped. Most didn't become ice addicts or similar. But many died from smoking. Vaping can end this tragedy
I'm an adult who uses a nicotine vape to prevent me from smoking. I make my own vape juice and the ingredients are simply; Vegetable Glycerine, Polypropylene Glycol, Nicotine Benzoate and Tobacco Flavor. Why not look at kids who smoke and drink?
See, when I asked the local tobacconist about vaping, they straight up told me that you can make your own juice and it is generally much safer. Told me to stay far away from all the random stuff online and that while safe juice that is basically nicotine and water vapour is produced in Australia, that you couldn't buy it here
@@MistressMelodythe e-liquid you make yourself is the same as what you buy online. With small differences depending on the flavor profile.
Smoking and vaping is just a weak mind set.
I am incredibly sorry for these family's loss of loved ones. I would however be interested in an interview that will have a doctor declaring that they state their reputation on the line with claims that they personally witnessed someone dying from vaping. To my knowledge nobody has died from vaping. There was a time that some people got very sick and one did die from black market thc cartridges. Dr. Peters gave a stern warning of what could happen, but he did not even say he personally knew of cases of death from vaping. I would be extremely interested in seeing the autopsy report of Mr. Hansen. If there is an actual claim that the cause of death was mealy vaping I would be so curious to see that for sure. That would be the first documented death from vaping I have ever seen.
Same. I'd like to know the mechanism. Was it lipoid pneumonia, EVALI? Not doubting, just curious.
There have been no deaths in Australia from vaping.
As I already wrote this "document" didn't tell that that 71 year old man had smoked over 40 years but if he has taken lets say a year puffs from vape, of course he died from vaping.
@@karivahamaki9113 highly doubtful
Big tobacco spent a lot of money on this
Thankyou everyone who came forward with the truth
all lies lmao
You call this the truth? Not one section of this report is truthful. None of the victims in this report died from vaping regulated nicotine vapes.
Hypocritical to speak of all the flavours and colours that appeal to children when alcohol exists. How many flavours can you buy alcoholic beverages in? How many shapes, sizes and colours of bottle and product? How many designs of labels with bright text and cartoonish characters? Bubba Hubba gin might appeal to kids, no? "But alcohol is part of our culture!"
What a shitty culture then! Alcohol is a hard drug, why recieves a free pass and even praise is beyond me! Alcohol is an addictive, carcinogenic, hepatotoxic, neurotoxic- omnitoxic chemical added to products to get people hooked. Lol at the statistics, most of the sales of alcohol are to binge drinkers and alcoholics and children get a hold of alcohol frequently and many young people end up with alcohol poisoning. Why is that not a great concern when they think they are just drinking a fruity, pleasant, stingy drink!
We live in a mistake! 😮😅
Iam only amazed without the adverts, Vaping become popular through word of Mouth not like cigarettes with cinema adverts & tv
Yet l tried a puff when they were at Paddy's Market, doing demos,wasn't for,me ,,werid stuff ,like gas ⛽️ 😮
Propaganda 😂 lies lies and more lies.
Colin mendelson is a hero.
Absolutely. To call Colin Mendelsohn a friend of Big Tobacco is a hideous lie. He has spent his career working for harm reduction in public health in Australia.
Some people will do whatever will hand them fat profits - ethics don't come into it, only money.
You are right. This reporter (Ross Coulthart) took the last few years off journalism to be paid a fortune by Ben Roberts Smith and Kerry Stokes to run their dirty tricks campaign. He spied on the brave whistleblower soldiers and journalists who exposed Roberts Smith's hideous crimes and tried to bring them down before the trial. As a result he is so discredited in journalism from that little ethical travesty, he can only find a job with Kerry Stokes Channel 7. This report is exactly the product of that sort of ethics (and money). It is full of lies from start to finish.
My idee is take it as a pure medicatie dont ever over du it !!!!!!!!!!
The nicotine is taken from the tobacco crops then - logically??😮😅
I'm soo happy because the vape changed me it's healthier and nobody dies and everybody's happier and not coughing and , vaping is the ultimate solution
Ya don't stink like shlt too. Lol
dont class regulated vape products with the illegal chinese black market vapes its just spreading misinformation
Exactly. Police the unregulated Chinese driven black market. Then allow regulated safe, tamper proof vapes (with health warnings) to be sold to adults to quit smoking.
@Dopenbenedict 100% I used regulated vapes to quit smoking (over a pack a day smoker 30yrs) Not the nicotine ones. Husband is giving me grief for using vapes now. I watched this to get information on how bad it is but all the info is on the imported illegal ones. I know common sense is that vaping is likely to not be good for me but I assume it is better than 40 smokes a day.
@@melanieshillinglaw3386 100% it is in my opinion . the amount of false info out there is crazy i have my older parents telling me to just get back on the cigarettes now which is crazy . Big tobacco has the media and aus government in its pocket
Okay, but, like.... where's my juul?
Goodie two shoes video.
I don’t know how bad is vaping but I tried an e-cigarette once and my stomach went crazy I tried again and the feeling wasn’t good but it was not good enough to not use it again I continue to smoking and fortunately I stop smoking a little while ago cold Turkey
These people saying its safe have a 100% interest in seeing children get addicted. The evidence of the popularity with children and the increase in addicts due to vaping is irrefutable. They WANT KIDS vaping.
That is a flat out lie. No person promoting vapes as a stop smoking method want them available to children. Governments and police are the ones at fault: the laws are there why aren't they policed.
Can't understand why people have problems giving up smoking. It's very easy. Just stop. I did it with great success many many times.
Then only one time I was getting tired of trying to give up and didn't start again. That was some years ago.
My son had double pneumonia from vaping
Unlikely. Who made the diagnosis?
I highly doubt that.
Not enough emphasis on non nicotine vape juices etc, these are all disposable vapes, yes a problem but dismissible by those who smoke vape juices out of their own reusable vape..
dont catch on to the kids buying and selling them make it ileagal to sell get them for trafficking
not to mention the kids are little junkies using vapes till they are burnt on the inside so how much worse is that
Wow you people are backward thinkers 😂
@@dirkdiggler9379 elaborate please sir since your a forward thinker
it's weird to hear that cigarettes are healthier then vapes. Still extremely bad for you either way
They aren't. Vapes carry less than 10% of the risks of cigarettes.
Vape is gross
The villainization and montage surrounding the doctor in this episode is a complete joke. All that guy is doing is reporting what he is (very well) educated about and defending vaping as an excellent alternative to smoking tobacco. Anyways, a compliment for allowing him the last word also on the hit job -- hehe!
Just close all the vaping shops, NOW.
I agree. Shut the shops, police the laws and stop importation of unregulated vapes from China and especially the sale to children. But don't stop smokers from access to a therapy that could save the lives of tens of thousands of Australians.
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How does it make you sick when you quit. Wow teens today are so freaking weird.
It doesn't.. they may have a mild nicotine withdrawal.
We allowed smoke cigarettes in class no hiding this school BROADMEDOWS COLLAGE
IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA.
YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL BE HELD RESONSABLE
FOR MANY
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN HE WAS A SHILL WHEN PRE APROVED w h i s t l e b l o w e r WENT TO HIM..I quit snoking for vape after decades of smoking, and I don't cough up any crap anymore. This is PAID FOR BY BIG TOBACCO LMAO edit my vape ingredients are pg,vg,nicotine, THIS IS PROVABLE (easily) that they are straight LYING
Well he spent the last few years on the payroll of Ben Roberts Smith and Kerry Stokes, spying on the whistleblowers who exposed the crimes of BRS.