Casey Costello: Associate Health Minister explains newest measures to crack down on youth vaping - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

The Government says it's trying to strike the right balance between helping smokers quit and stopping youth vaping.

Single-use vapes will be banned by the end of the year, and fines for selling vapes to under-18s will rise massively.

The Associate Health Minister has been asked whether the Coalition will enforce minimum prices to put people off buying vapes.

Casey Costello says she's not a fan of that- and she says vapes are still a great smoking cessation tool.

"The alternate risk is that we get the prices back up- and they're equitable to smoking, so we end up with people taking up smoking."

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