My open letter to the Australian Health Minister: , you say you will stop the #vaping black market that sells via shops near schools. What's wrong with parents who presumably would be stopping by at one of these convenience stores, who would of otherwise purchased cigarettes being able to access a legally sold and regulated vape? These shops haven't just opened to sell school kids vapes, they are mostly convenience stores who have sold cigarettes for decades!There is no reason why an RSA style license scheme couldn't be applied!I see kids in convenience stores of a morning as young as 10 with their hands full of lollies and red bull energy drinks! Those convenience stores selling high caffeine/sugar drinks on mass to youth under 15 should also be licenced to do so! Energy drinks have caused more deaths to youths in Australia than vaping!They shouldn't be irresponsibly selling either! Removing convenient access to reduced harm products such as vaping to adults simply promotes an underground market! No amount of money thrown at border force will stop nefarious criminals importing illicit nicotine products of any variety. To think otherwise is blind and foolish! You already admitted yesterday that you won't be able to catch everything, but by burning further resources and misplacing public money at this issue will not solve it either!Limited licensed retailers with preference to experienced and purposed vaping specialist stores should be the priority. Regulating nicotine products for the safest possible outcomes for the end user should also be a priority!There has never been a single death evidenced by the use of a legally sold nicotine vaping product. By overregulating, ie. not proportionate to risk, the black market will win. The Black Market won't only sell vapes at the local shop, but also direct to youth via other means! Mark Butler, as you consider your draft policy and your "Nicola Roxon" style superstar moment, consider the realities. You either have a success or a massive eggfaced moment coming your way!Would be much better for everyone, and for best policy, to open your roundtable to the consumers, specialist vape stores and to over 40 better qualified doctors, professors and experts in this space, than only to the few grant hungry stalwarts you currently engage with wouldn't it? Think about it, if your paying someone to tell you what's what, they will tell you what you want to hear and what they want you to think.Australian voters prefer the smartest decisions made with the best science and the best experts, creating policy that will cause smoking rates to decline again, rather than cause a more robust illicit nicotine product market!  What will be your legacy Mr Butler?20000 more smoking related deaths every year, so  gets $3.3Bill for a budget surplus?orSensible policy that is risk proportionate, that will eventually happen anyway, be it on your watch, or someone else's, while you are left holding the bad egg? Consider this statement from someone who lost a parent during her youth:"In the rush to stop teenagers experimenting behind the school shed, don't forget those children who lose a parent to tobacco.I've been 25 years of my life without my dad because of a tobacco pipe and vaping wasn't available then.I cannot think that losing a parent through the rush to stop vaping is better than the experiments that teenagers will always do. So yes think of the children."Consider carefully, very carefully!Voters will be counting on it!           