Vaping: it’s time to act

Take two simple steps to contact your Senators and ensure your concerns are heard and responded to.

Senators are elected to represent the whole state or territory. Each state has 12 senators whilst the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory each have two.

1. Create your letter. Identifying yourself as a state or territory resident means they will properly consider your concerns.
2. Email it to your Senators.

Our letter writing generator can do most of the work. It needs just a few key pieces of information to quickly create your letter.

• Your role in the community and your concerns about vaping. 
• Your name and location that shows you live in the senators’ state. Your representatives have a responsibility to hear your concerns. 
• Optional phone number or email address. This gives your representatives the option to follow up with you about your concerns. This is not required, but adds a level of legitimacy to your letter.

Please use the form below to personalise a letter to send.

This letter generator can help you quickly create a letter that you can then copy and paste into your email or print out and send via the post.

Legislation came into effect on 1st January 2024, stopping the import of non-prescription e-cigarettes at our borders, ending the flood of these inherently harmful products into the country

• Stop the access and supply of all single use, disposable vapes, strengthening and reinforcing the prescription pathway.
• Halt the advertising, supply, or commercial possession of non-prescription and disposable vapes.
• Introduce measures to reduce the appeal and use outside of the prescription pathway, by introducing minimum quality standards on flavours, colours and ingredients; pharmaceutical like packaging; and reducing allowable nicotine contents.
• Introduce minimum quality standards where none currently exist on these products.

• Since 2013, vaping use has grown across almost every age group in our community. More than 30% of young Australians (14-17 year olds) have vaped.  
• The latest data, from the first quarter of 2023, shows: 
  • 1 in 7 Australians aged 14-17 are current vapers 
  • 1 in 5 Australians aged 18-24 are current vapers 
• Young Australians who vape are around 3 times more likely to take up tobacco smoking compared to young Australians who have never vaped. 
• E-cigarettes are not safe and can cause harm. While the long-term impacts are being studied, evidence has found e-cigarettes can lead to addiction, unintentional and intentional poisoning, acute nicotine toxicity, lung injury, and increased smoking uptake in non-smokers. 

Our letter writing generator can do most of the work. It needs just a few key pieces of information to quickly create your letter. 

• Your role in the community and your concerns about vaping.
• Your name and location that shows you live in the MP’s electorate. Your local MP has a responsibility to hear your concerns. 
• Optional phone number or email address. This gives your MP’s office the option to follow up with you about your concerns. This is not required, but adds a level of legitimacy to your letter.  You can choose to add your email address (optional) so that we can send you a copy of the letter you generated.

Please use the form below to personalise a letter to send to your MP. Alternatively you can download a letter template.

This letter generator can help you quickly create a letter that you can then copy and paste into your email or print out and send via the post.