FILE PHOTO: Flavoured vape juices stand on a counter at a vape store, in Melbourne, Australia, May 2, 2023. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders/File Photo
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will water down a planned world first ban on vaping after opposition from the Greens party led the government on Monday to agree to amend a bill that would have restricted vapes to those with a doctor's prescription.
The agreement between the ruling centre-left Labor party and the Greens will see legislation pass later this week that restricts the sale of vapes to pharmacies and removes them from retail shelves, where they have fuelled a boom in youth vaping.
