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Hunt bows to backbench, delays vaping import ban

Tom Burton

Health minister Greg Hunt has bowed to a back bench push against his import ban on nicotine vaping, postponing the e-cigarette ban for six months.

The backdown came after 28 Coalition MPs lobbied the minister to delay the ban, due to begin on July 1.

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Tom Burton was government editor at The Australian Financial Review.

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