A Victorian student was reportedly found unconscious Thursday morning after vaping in the school toilets.
The student at Bannockburn P12 College was taken to Geelong hospital in a stable condition after paramedics were called at 8.45am, Victoria Ambulance said.
A department of education spokesperson said: “a Bannockburn student was taken by ambulance to hospital after a minor medical incident this morning”.
Earlier this year, the federal health minister, Mark Butler, unveiled Australia’s most significant tobacco and vaping control measures in a decade after declaring the tobacco industry was trying to create a “new generation of nicotine addicts.”
The government said it will ban the importation of nonprescription vaping products and introduce minimum quality standards for vapes including restricting flavours, colours and other ingredients.
Thursday’s incident comes as a paper in the latest edition of the journal, BMJ Tobacco Control, found in a study of more than 2,000 Australian parents, that most support regulations controlling e-cigarettes to better protect children and adolescents.
The study, led by researchers at The Royal Children’s hospital melbourne, found that support was largely consistent across demographic groups for restrictions.
Of those surveyed, 79% supported controlling the public use, 86% supported restricting marketing and 87% supported restricting packaging of e-cigarettes.
The respondents, recruited by The Online Research Unit completed a survey in 2019 as part of the Royal Children’s Hospital National Child Health Poll.
Guardian Australia contacted Bannockburn College, who referred the inquiry to the department of education.
