Australia will ban recreational vaping and introduce minimum quality standards for vapes, BBC News reported.
Vapes will also be available only in pharmacies, the site added.
Australia already requires a prescription for nicotine vapes, but the products are still available on the black market.
According to Australian Health Minister Mark Butler, electronic cigarettes, also called vapes, are creating a "new generation" of smoking addicts.
In a Tuesday speech announcing the reforms, Butler said, "Just like they did with smoking... 'Big Tobacco' has taken another addictive product, wrapped it in shiny packaging and added sweet flavors to create a new generation of nicotine addicts... We have been duped."
The Guardian quoted Butler as explaining: "Vaping was sold to governments and communities around the world as a therapeutic product to help long-term smokers quit. It was not sold as a recreational product – especially not one for our kids. But that is what it has become: the biggest loophole in Australian history."
He emphasized that electronic cigarettes are targeted towards young people and available "alongside lollies and chocolate bars." He also said that vaping is now the "number one behavioral issue" in high schools, "and it’s becoming widespread in primary schools. Over the past 12 months, Victoria’s poisons hotline has taken 50 calls about children under four becoming sick from ingesting or using a vape."
Australia's 9News quoted Butler as underlining that, "Vapes contain more than 200 chemicals that do not belong in the lungs. Some of the same chemicals you will find in nail polish remover and weed killer."
Butler promised a crackdown on the import of non-prescription products and penalties for possession of e-cigarettes unless they had been prescribed.
He added, "No more bubble-gum flavors, pink unicorns or vapes disguised as highlighter pens for kids to hide them in their pencil cases," BBC said.
At the same time, Butler promised that it will be easier to obtain a prescription for the products.
9News noted that the regulations still need to pass parliament before becoming law.