Australia should 'look at' New Zealand's regulated vaping model amid current surge

Australian Association of Convenience Stores CEO Theo Foukkare says we only need to look at countries like New Zealand to see a regulated vaping model that works. “New Zealanders have had a 35 per cent decline in smoking rates in the last three years since they introduced the regulated vaping model,” he told Sky News Australia. “Guess what – New Zealand doesn’t have an out of control black market, New Zealand doesn't have an out of control vaping crisis. “And that’s been replicated in the UK, in Canada, in the US and many parts of Europe. “So the primary goal needs to be getting people off smoking and if vaping just so happens to be the thing that’s going to deliver the results, then I think it just needs to be regulated.”