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Dear MP,
 Australia is losing the battle against smoking.
 Despite plain packaging, record tobacco taxes and countless anti-tobacco advertising campaigns, Australia’s national smoking rate is no longer dropping and now sits stagnant.
 With 2.8 million Australians still smoking, more of the same tactics will not work to reduce smoking rates while current laws actively prohibit smokers from switching to less harmful alternatives.
 The most proven-effective aids for quitting smoking are smoke-free products –like e-cigarettes, vapes or personal vaporisers. These smoke-free alternatives do not produce smoke, but deliver nicotine which satisfies smoker cravings without the deadly tar and particles generated by combustible tobacco smoking as in cigarettes. Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms they are twice as effective as other Nicotine Replacement Therapies such as patches and gums.
 More than 60 scientific studies now show that smoke-free products can help smokers quit, or are a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes, with fewer harmful chemicals.
 Public health authorities around the world have recommended smoke-free products as quit-smoking tools, including Public Health England and the New Zealand Ministry of Health. The UK Royal College of Physicians concluded that the harm from “e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco” and that “there is no evidence that e-cigarette use has resulted in renormalisation of smoking.” In the European Union alone, over six million adults have given up their cigarette habit by switching to e-cigarettes.
 It makes no make sense that cigarettes, which are far more dangerous to smoke, remain legal and widely available while less harmful options that actually encourage smokers to quit are banned in Australia.
 Legalising vaping would also go a long way towards fighting the threat of black market businesses and dealers who may be associated with dodgy products or other illegal enterprises.
 Australia needs to catch up to Canada, the UK, New Zealand and countries across the EU by legalising and regulating smoke-free alternatives to ensure a healthier future for all Australians.
 Legalising vaping WILL save hundreds of thousands of Australian lives, and it is time for our government to act.
 Please do the right thing. Legalise vaping in Australia and help more smokers quit for good.
 Thank you for considering this vital matter,
 Yours sincerely,