Puffed out: The Costs of Vaping

New research suggests that the increase in vaping across
Australia will cost the health system an extra $180 million each
year and that’s a conservative figure.


Vaping has been framed as a way to stop smoking tobacco, however
it can also be a gateway to taking it up. It’s estimated that 13
per cent of people who vape transition to cigarettes.


The Australian government has called vapes a public health menace
and introduced restrictive anti-vaping policies. But are these
policies intended to drive positive change giving rise to a
dangerous black-market?


Guests:


Professor Louisa Collins, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research
Institute


Dr James Martin, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin
University


Becky Freeman, Associate Professor of Public Health, Sydney
University