The ADAVB welcomes new Victorian tobacco laws that will help prevent young people from taking up smoking, protect children from exposure to second-hand smoke in motor vehicles, and support more adults to quit smoking.
The key reforms include:
Banning the display of tobacco products in retail outlets (other than specialist tobacconists and on-airport duty free shops);
Banning smoking in cars carrying a person under 18 years of age;
Banning the sale of cigarettes from temporary booths at events such as The Big Day Out or the Melbourne Grand Prix;
Providing the Health Minister with the power to ban youth-orientated tobacco products and packaging, such as fruit-flavoured cigarettes; and
Stronger penalties and enforcement provisions.
Aside from the point-of-sale tobacco display ban, which will be introduced on 1 January 2011, the remaining reforms will commence on 1 January 2010.
The ADAVB made a submission to the Government in 2008 in support of these measures.