Call to make e-cigs easier

AUSTRALIA must make it as easy as possible for smokers to get their hands on e-cigarettes, doctors and a giant tobacco company have told federal parliamentarians.

Doctors say authorities must not “sacrifice” smokers who can’t quit by denying them a safer alternative. They say Australia must follow the US and UK and give smokers easy access to vastly less harmful ecigarettes.

E-cigarettes are legal in Australia but the sale and possession of the nicotine used in them is illegal.