“The Ministry of Health is today drawing backlash from the local New Zealand vaping industry following its release of proposed regulations for the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act. Vaping Trade Association New Zealand (VTANZ) President, Lawrence Coe, says the Industry has long called for positive legislation and regulation that would control the wild-west marketing environment, and would protect consumers from unsafe or dodgy products. “Unfortunately, rather than carefully crafted controls on advertising and promotion – the Government took the easy route of lumping vaping in with smoking and banning the lot. Now we are faced with the next wave of change, Regulations, and the much-feared costs to our businesses as a result”. Mr Coe said there are some positives proposed which the Industry would welcome, but overall, the draft proposals needed a lot of work.”
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