> potentially soon there will be banning of tobacco sales to people born before a point in time year (2005 maybe?) so they're never allowed to smoke

Minor typo: the ban will be for people born after a particular year, not before.

easier to enforce such laws in a low populated country such as Australia than in places like the US.

Australians generally live in big dense cities. In fact, this is probably why the ban will work, they are also more into rule of law than the USA is.

Also, vaping in Australia is illegal, making the ban even more impressive.

> Also, vaping in Australia is illegal,

I assure that it isn't. (I'm Australian)

I'm not saying it's good!

But it isn't illegal. The closest thing is that imports of nicotine vape products has been banned[1].

But you can still get them with a prescription and - more importantly - vaping itself is still legal with non-nicotine products. For example [2] is a story about how sweet flavored vapes are popular with schoolkids.

[1] https://www.tga.gov.au/blogs/tga-topics/nicotine-vaping-laws...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/qld-ecigarettes-vapes...

> illegal

Don't you mean "legal"?

No, illegal as in “vaping is not allowed at all in Australia.”

Thanks, didn't realise that'd been made illegal as well. eg:

https://www.tga.gov.au/blogs/tga-topics/nicotine-vaping-laws...

Good. :)

Vaping is still legal. It's just illegal to import nicotine based vapes.

Why? Less population density means more places are without authority presence.

Oops, yeah. :)