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The Roy Morgan Saga Continues: How Australia’s Youth Smoking Crisis Was Buried, Edited, and Ignored
Alan Gore 09 July 2025 >> A continuation of my previous blog << For years, Australia was hailed as a global success story in the war...
Alan Gor
22 hours ago
The Data Doesn’t Lie: Albanese’s Vape Crackdown Backfires as Young Australians Turn to Smoking
Alan Gore 04 July 2025 The Roy Morgan survey findings from May 2025 have confirmed what many of us in the tobacco harm reduction...
Alan Gor
6 days ago
Becky Freeman’s Commentary: A Masterclass in Ideological Stubbornness Over Practical Public Health
Alan Gor 1 July 2025 https://archive.is/4ACFU "I can see seven smoke shops from my bus stop - governments must act" Becky Freeman’s...
Alan Gor
Jul 1
Framing Harm Reduction as a Threat: A Critical Response to the Nicotine Pouch Perception Study in Australia
Alan Gore 29 June 2025 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40570643/ Mary-Ellen E Brierley 1 , Runze Li 2 , Michelle I Jongenelis A...
Alan Gor
Jun 29
The Global Echo Chamber: How the WHO’s Tobacco Control Conference Became a Parade of Failure
Alan Gore 26 June 2025 Another year. Another WHO-backed tobacco control conference. Another missed opportunity to save millions of lives....
Alan Gor
Jun 26
Band-Aids on a Gaping Wound: How Australia’s Vape Policy Failure Fuels Crime, Confusion, and Harm
Alan Gore 22 June 2025 Australia is facing a nicotine crisis not because of vapes, but because of politicians who’ve wilfully ignored...
Alan Gor
Jun 22
NICOTINE: The Most Lied-About Molecule in Medicine
NICOTINE: The Most Lied-About Molecule in Medicine
Alan Gor
Jun 20
Toxicant and Nicotine Exposure in Pregnant Smokers, Vapers, and Nicotine-Replacement Users: Cross-Sectional Study
19 June 2025 https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntaf103/8166749?login=false Michael Ussher, PhD ,...
Alan Gor
Jun 19
When meta-analysis misleads: the need for methodological integrity in e-cigarette research
17 June 2025 Riccardo Polosa , Giulio Geraci & Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11739-025-04019-w...
Alan Gor
Jun 17
Stuck in the Past: How Australia’s Health Institutions Betrayed Smokers and Ignored Harm Reduction
Australia’s peak health organisations must admit the truth: They got it wrong. And the longer they double down, the more lives will be lost unnecessarily to smoking-related disease.
Alan Gor
Jun 15
Oral health effects of non‑combustible nicotine products: a systematic review and network meta‑analysis of randomized controlled trials
13 June 2025 Giusy Rita Maria La Rosa a , Cinzia Del Giovane b c , Silvia Minozzi d , Jan Kowalski e , Iain Chapple f , Amaliya Amaliya...
Alan Gor
Jun 13
Aotearoa Allies Advocate for Aussies - Vaping Consumers
New Zealand allows vaping products to be sold as an adult consumer product in much the same way that cigarettes and alcohol are sold. There is no significant black market for vaping products in New Zealand.
Kim
Jun 11
Non-Smoker Asks Government to "DO BETTER" - Vaping Consumer Ally
Even as a non-smoker, I can see how beneficial vaping has been. I have met countless people who would still be smoking cigarettes if not for vaping.
Kim
Jun 11
Australia’s Prohibition Crisis: Police Revolt, Black Markets Boom, and Public Health Pays the Price
Alan Gor 08 June 2025 Australia is in the grip of a full-blown prohibition crisis and it’s not just about vapes. What started as a...
Alan Gor
Jun 8
"Dual Use" of e-cigarettes alongside cigarettes encompasses varied behaviour patterns and motives that have different implications for health and smoking cessation
06 June 2025 Sarah E Jackson 1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40474553/ In recent years, the landscape of nicotine consumption has...
Alan Gor
Jun 6
Wastewater Doesn't Lie: Are Australia's Smoking Rates Accurate?
2 June 2025 by Pippa Starr There's something in the water that we need to have a national conversation about! A quiet walk and a little...
Pippa Starr
Jun 2
World No Tobacco Day 2025: A Global Campaign Against Tobacco Harm Reduction, Not Tobacco
Alan Gor 01 June 2025 This year’s World No Tobacco Day, led again by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Framework Convention on...
Alan Gor
Jun 1
Does Butler Really Understand What A White Flag Is?
Mark Butler likes to say he "won’t raise the white flag" in his war on vaping, but let’s be honest: this war is already lost.
Pippa Starr
Jun 1
Supermarket Cigarette Ban: Another Step in the War on Visibility, Not Behaviour
Alan Gor 31 May 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-31/lung-foundation-calls-for-supermarket-tobacco-ban/105348498 The Lung...
Alan Gor
May 31
Australia's Deadly Vaping Bans Have Self Combusted! Starr Warns The World - Don't Repeat Australia's Catastrophe!
In all the drug wars and everything we've had in Australian history, we have not seen a bigger debacle than this. The black market has taken over
Pippa Starr
May 31
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