Should New Zealand Ban Vapes Or Regulate Them Harder? New Zealand has already taken a big step: disposable vapes were banned from 17 June 2025, alongside tighter retail and visibility rules. Australia's new vaping import ban: what we do and don't know so far Vaping The Guardian New Zealand to ban sale of disposable vapes weeks after repealing world first smoking ban The Independent Banning vapes is a bad way of reducing youth vaping Newsroom New Zealand cracks down on vaping, bans single use devices NZ regulations around vapes proving ineffective Smokefree advocate