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...

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...

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...

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.

Alan Gor 31 May 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-31/lung-foundation-calls-for-supermarket-tobacco-ban/105348498 The Lung...

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

01 June 2025 Lucia Spicuzza , Francesco Pennisi , Grazia Caci , Fabio Cibella , Davide Campagna , Yusuff A. Adebisi , Claudio Saitta ,...

Alan Gor 30 May 2025 Each year on World Vape Day, consumers, advocates, scientists, and public health reformers come together to...

Alan Gor 28 May 2025 Anti-vaping activists advising the Australian Health Minister are praising South Australia’s vaping enforcement...

Alan Gor 19 MAy 2025 This Is What Prohibition Looks Like: Australia’s Tobacco Black Market is a Public Health Own Goal https://...

Alan Gor 19 May 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17579139251317350 Australia is often hailed as a leader in tobacco...

16 May 2025 Arielle Selya a , Ray Niaura b , Sooyong Kim https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376871625001693 Abstract...

It is with immense pride and emotion that we announce the very first presentation of the Colin Mendelson Medal, a tribute that means more than words can express, and one that we hope will continue to inspire generations of advocates to come.

Alan Gor 12 May 2025 In a country where 24,000 people die each year from smoking-related diseases, you’d hope our public health approach...

12 May 2025 Jillian Halladay a b c , Rachel Visontay b , Matthew Sunderland b , Amy-Leigh Rowe b , Scarlett Smout b , Emma Devine b ,...

12 May 2025 BMJ 2025 ; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r956 (Published 12 May 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r956 In recent...

Alan Gor 8 May 2025 The campaign signs are coming down. The soundbites have faded. And now that the election is over, there’s space,...

The current policy restricting nicotine vaping to prescription-only pharmacy sales has gifted Big Tobacco and Big Pharma an effective monopoly. With independent vape businesses locked out, smokers are left with two options

ALIVE, Australia’s leading voice for ex-smokers and tobacco harm reduction advocates, welcomes the announcement by the Liberal-National Coalition to regulate vaping in a retail setting, ending the failed experiment of pharmacy-only access.

01 May 2025 Pasquale Caponnetto , Saul Shiffman , Graziella Chiara Prezzavento & Riccardo Polosa   https://rdcu.be/ekA0h Abstract...