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| Subject: Rights violation: E-cigarettes banned in OZschwitz Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:01 pm | |
| They arrived in black station wagons, pouncing with the purpose and precision of a crack undercover police team.
Within 90 minutes, a suburban home in Perth had been turned upside down, the officers emerging with large garbage bags full of hardware. A selection of different types of electronic cigarettes
Puff daddies: E-cigs deliver nicotine in vapour. Photo: Wolter Peeters
It was a scene reminiscent of a counter-terrorism raid. But this was the West Australian Health Department swooping on small-time electronic cigarette supplier Vincent van Heerden who, they claimed, was in breach of the Tobacco Products Control Act.
Two years on, that sting has sparked a landmark legal test case that made Western Australia the first territory in the world to outlaw the sale of electronic cigarettes.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/electronic-cigarettes-the-truth-behind-the-smoke-and-mirrors-20140426-37aum.html#ixzz302YQqvw1 |
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