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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by seanmcdirmid on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:51AM (#31693352)
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.

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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by nl on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:41AM (#31694865)
> Also, vaping in Australia is illegal,

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

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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by seanmcdirmid on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:11PM (#31696864)
https://lungfoundation.com.au/lung-health/protecting-your-lu...
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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by nl on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:07PM (#31707818)
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...

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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by justinclift on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:55AM (#31694266)
> illegal

Don't you mean "legal"?

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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by seanmcdirmid on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:20AM (#31694596)
No, illegal as in “vaping is not allowed at all in Australia.”
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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by justinclift on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:47PM (#31701224)
Thanks, didn't realise that'd been made illegal as well. eg:

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

Good. :)

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Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm by nl on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:08PM (#31707823)
Vaping is still legal. It's just illegal to import nicotine based vapes.
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