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Conflicts of interest (actual or perceived)

5. Have you or your organisation ever received services, assistance or support (whether monetary or non-monetary in nature) from the tobacco industry and/or e-cigarette industry? If this scenario applies to you or your organisation, please provide relevant details in the textbox.

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Support from tobacco and/or e-cigarette industry (Required)
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6. Have you or your organisation ever provided services, assistance or support (whether monetary or non-monetary in nature) to the tobacco industry and/or the e-cigarette industry? If this scenario applies to you or your organisation, please provide further information in the textbox.

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Support to the tobacco and/or e-cigarette industry (Required)
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7. Is your organisation a:

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Framework of the draft NTS 2022-2030

8. Do you agree with the goals and smoking prevalence targets for the draft NTS 2022-2030? Please provide an explanation for your selection.

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Goals and smoking prevalence targets
Australia is already the only Western democracy to require a nicotine prescription to vape. Vaping is framed as a threat to public health, rather than an opportunity to improve it.
This is a clear cash grab by the government who cant let go of cigarettes as an obvious source of generating revenue, look to every other western nation, they're doing a better job!
Even without the planned anti-smoking measures, the benefit of vaping has been clearly demonstrated in New Zealand. Over the last 12 months, since new vaping legislation was introduced, there has been an unprecedented 20 percent decline in the adult (daily and non-daily) smoking rate (from 13.7 percent to 10.9 percent).

9. Do you agree with the objectives for the draft NTS 2022-2030? Please provide an explanation for your selection.

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Objectives
Australia is already the only Western democracy to require a nicotine prescription to vape. Vaping is framed as a threat to public health, rather than an opportunity to improve it.
This is a clear cash grab by the government who cant let go of cigarettes as an obvious source of generating revenue, look to every other western nation, they're doing a better job!
Even without the planned anti-smoking measures, the benefit of vaping has been clearly demonstrated in New Zealand. Over the last 12 months, since new vaping legislation was introduced, there has been an unprecedented 20 percent decline in the adult (daily and non-daily) smoking rate (from 13.7 percent to 10.9 percent).

10. Do you agree with the guiding principles for the draft NTS 2022-2030? Please provide an explanation for your selection.

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Guiding principles
Australia is already the only Western democracy to require a nicotine prescription to vape. Vaping is framed as a threat to public health, rather than an opportunity to improve it.
This is a clear cash grab by the government who cant let go of cigarettes as an obvious source of generating revenue, look to every other western nation, they're doing a better job!
Even without the planned anti-smoking measures, the benefit of vaping has been clearly demonstrated in New Zealand. Over the last 12 months, since new vaping legislation was introduced, there has been an unprecedented 20 percent decline in the adult (daily and non-daily) smoking rate (from 13.7 percent to 10.9 percent).

Priority areas of the draft NTS 2022-2030

11. Do you agree with the priority areas for the draft NTS 2022-2030? Please provide an explanation for your selection.

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Priority Areas
Australia is already the only Western democracy to require a nicotine prescription to vape. Vaping is framed as a threat to public health, rather than an opportunity to improve it.
This is a clear cash grab by the government who cant let go of cigarettes as an obvious source of generating revenue, look to every other western nation, they're doing a better job!
Even without the planned anti-smoking measures, the benefit of vaping has been clearly demonstrated in New Zealand. Over the last 12 months, since new vaping legislation was introduced, there has been an unprecedented 20 percent decline in the adult (daily and non-daily) smoking rate (from 13.7 percent to 10.9 percent).

12. Do you agree with the actions listed under each priority area for the draft NTS 2022-2030? Please provide an explanation for your section.

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Actions
Australia is already the only Western democracy to require a nicotine prescription to vape. Vaping is framed as a threat to public health, rather than an opportunity to improve it.
This is a clear cash grab by the government who cant let go of cigarettes as an obvious source of generating revenue, look to every other western nation, they're doing a better job!
Even without the planned anti-smoking measures, the benefit of vaping has been clearly demonstrated in New Zealand. Over the last 12 months, since new vaping legislation was introduced, there has been an unprecedented 20 percent decline in the adult (daily and non-daily) smoking rate (from 13.7 percent to 10.9 percent).

Other Feedback

13. Please provide any additional comments you have on the draft NTS 2022-2030.

Additional comments
Legalise vaping already, its obvious to everyone that the restrictions on vaping while still offering cigarettes everywhere is just greedy revenue raising. If the government actually cared more about public health than revenue, vaping would have been easy and legal a long time ago. All the so called negative health impacts of vaping are largely misinformation by those with conflicting intrests.

Australia is already the only Western democracy to require a nicotine prescription to vape. Vaping is framed as a threat to public health, rather than an opportunity to improve it.
This is a clear cash grab by the government who cant let go of cigarettes as an obvious source of generating revenue, look to every other western nation, they're doing a better job!
Even without the planned anti-smoking measures, the benefit of vaping has been clearly demonstrated in New Zealand. Over the last 12 months, since new vaping legislation was introduced, there has been an unprecedented 20 percent decline in the adult (daily and non-daily) smoking rate (from 13.7 percent to 10.9 percent).

Publication of submissions

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