Under the Plain Packaging Act and Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act , all tobacco products must comply with: No branding or logos (plain packaging only) Standardised olive-brown packaging Large graphic health warnings No advertising, promotion or inducement Excise + GST influencing final pricing Because of these regulations, discussions about Double Happiness in Australia focus on education, history and regulatory frameworks
While nicotine isn't known for major long-term harm, it can be particularly risky for those with heart or nervous system conditions
E-cigarettes create a similar vapor of harmful chemicals like a traditional cigarette and the user inhales toxic chemicals
Its thought that the reasons for this tends not to be due to any physiologically differences between smoking and non-smoking mothers, but rather due to behavioural reasons
however, the risk is no higher than for other, currently available, tobacco products and initiation is expected to be low generally. In summary, adult smokers switching to THS obtain comparable amounts of nicotine to that from cigarettes
The agency announced in 2011 that it would require color graphics depicting smoking's harms along with new warning statements, but it backed down after several tobacco companies challenged the plan in court