We apologise to our online and instore customers, once again, South Australian public health bureaucrats and government have been playing GOD with adult smokers and vapers lives.

The SA Health Minister, Mr Wade from October 1st, 2021 (several years after his original misguided and disproportionate E-Cigarette Regulation came into effect), has decided that in HIS OPINION it is appropriate and necessary to BAN the online sale and advertising, and in-store display and advertising of e-liquids and constituents of e-liquids.

Once again, just like with the COVID response, these unelected public health bureaucrats that advise politicians, are showing their unpreparedness to FOLLOW SCIENCE and COMMONSENSE.

With 21,000 Australians dying yearly from smoking related disease, smoking prevalence rates slowing at a snails pace and several failed "tobacco strategy targets", they are OPPRESSING the vaping industry and denying the HUMAN HEALTH RIGHTS of 2.5 million adult smokers and 600,000 vapers in Australia.

It is FAR EASIER to access tobacco cigarettes than SAFER VAPING PRODUCTS in Australia, particularly rural and remote areas where smoking prevalence is greatest.

Nicotine vaping has killed ZERO vapers (amongst 68 million globally) in 18 years while tobacco takes the lives of 21,000 in Australia and 8 million globally EVERY YEAR.

Australia's tobacco control policies have caused Australia's rate of decline in smoking prevalence to SADLY LAG other countries where vaping is encouraged, such as the UK.

The UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES of Australia's cautious, risk-averse and prohibitionist stance on vaping is causing massive black markets to erupt in Australia where illicit tobacco and illegal, disposable nicotine vapes are being sold by unscrupulous sellers to many including children.

The non-governmental and government health organisations that oppose vaping (tobacco harm reduction), are driven by IDEOLOGY and funded by big pharma and big tobacco laundered money to keep smokers SMOKING, and vapers and the vaping industry OPPRESSED.

The government, who ENABLE the sale of tobacco in Australia and make 18 billion dollars at the expense of 21,000 lives every year, are SUBJECT to the will of unelected public health bureaucrats that deny the worldwide evidence on the efficacy and safety of vaping as a harm reduction tool.

It is almost as though government health officials and politicians have lost the ability to apply COMMONSENSE to the massive problem of smoking. For instance, the requirement for vapers to possess a DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTION to import, possess and use NICOTINE in Australia (the only Western democracy to do so), while NO DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTION is needed to smoke for the same NICOTINE in easily attainable cigarettes or to get NICOTINE in the form of TGA approved NICOTINE Replacement Therapies from Coles and Woolies, smacks of downright DISCRIMINATION and TYRANNY. Most of the general public would agree, but politicians who represent the general public cannot see it?

Just as is the case with the COVID response, Public Health in Australia is OUT OF CONTROL and need to be stopped from creating MORE HARM and division.

With their ILL-FOUNDED, FEAR-BASED and DISPROPORTIONATE advice to the legislators, Public Health are AIDING AND ABETTING the very Big Tobacco companies that they PURPORT TO BE FIGHTING.

Most vaping products sold in Australia have nothing to do with Big Tobacco, they are small businesses, mostly started by ex-smoking vapers who know the benefits of switching to less harmful products and wish to enable other smokers to do the same.

VAPING is the most POPULAR and EFFECTIVE quitting aid in the world today.

I, as the owner of Versatile Vapes, would be willing to publicly debate tobacco harm reduction and current E-Cigarette Legislation with any public health bureaucrat or politician at the drop of a hat, IF they had the guts to do so. I am the LIVING PROOF(along with 68 million others), that VAPING WORKS to quit smoking, my doctor can testify to my improved health, and I personally look forward to living longer than I might have with continued smoking.

The TYRANNY MUST STOP, if Australia's 2.5 million adult smokers wish to SWITCH to a FAR SAFER alternative to smoking, public health and government should WELCOME that with open arms, make vaping products LEGAL AND EASILY ACCESSIBLE with messaging to ENCOURAGE them (as in the UK), NOT put roadblocks, laws and regulations in the way that will KEEP them SMOKING AND DYING ten years earlier than they should.