Nicotine e-cigarettes require a prescription - 1st October 2021

Following their 23rd September interim paper, The TGA published their determination on the 21st December.

From 1 October 2021, the law for you to import nicotine e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine will align with the law for you to buy such products domestically. The gap between Commonwealth and state and territory law has been closed so that you will need a doctor’s prescription (script) to legally access nicotine e-cigarettes and nicotine liquids in Australia.

Click Here for the TGA Decision

The decision was also reported by The ABC (Click here).

There is still work to do in terms of formal review of appropriate products for prescription - and discussion regarding use of such products in terms of Smoking Cessation strategies given trials/review to date.