Alan Gor 19 October 2025 If you thought the first production of Australia’s “Public Health Theatre” was wild, buckle up for the sequel, which is even more unbelievable. The curtains never really closed. The actors just changed costumes, the script got a rewrite, and the same mistakes kept playing out. This time, the show is darker, louder, and far more expensive. It’s called Prohibition Strikes Back. Scene One: The Pharmacy Fantasy When the government banned vape sales, they

Alan Gor 17 October 2025 Grab your popcorn, because Australia’s public health establishment has turned the vaping debate into a full-blown stage production. The actors are polished, the script is well-rehearsed, and the media always gives it five stars. The only problem? It’s all performance, and none of it is helping real people. Act One: The Press Conference Enter Health Minister Mark Butler, the star of the show. Every few months, he steps up to the podium to announce anot

How outdated thinking at the World Health Organisation is hurting public health instead of helping it. The WHO’s latest report on tobacco...

Alan Gor 5 October 2025 Australia likes to see itself as a global leader in public health, the country that took on Big Tobacco and won....

Alan Gor 02 October 2025 Now and then, a paper comes along that does not just raise eyebrows but leaves you shaking your head in...

Alan Gore - 27 September 2025 For decades, Australia was celebrated as a global leader in tobacco control. Plain packaging, ad bans, and...

Alan Gore 21 September 2025 Australia now has a tobacco black market worth more than $5 billion a year, with 60% of all tobacco sold...

Alan Gor 17 September 2025 Australia loves to parade its “world-leading” tobacco control model. High taxes, endless restrictions, and the...

Alan Gor 11 September 2025 Dear Minister Butler, I’m writing to you not as a lobbyist, not as an academic, not as someone with a...

Alan Gor 07 September 2025 Australia today finds itself in the grip of a tobacco control disaster of its own making. With the world’s...

By Alan Gor 31 August 2025 This week, the headlines shouted “historic bust.”  Thirty million cigarettes. Nearly 400,000 vapes. Tons of...

250 tobacco and vape war firebombings since 2023.Yesterday alone, two more tobacconists were torched, one in Edwardstown, South Australia, and another in Flinders Park, Hindmarsh, the electorate of none other than Federal Health Minister Mark Butler.

Vaping is at least 3 times more effective in keeping smokers away from smoking than any other big pharma product!

Despite record cigarette taxes, despite border crackdowns, despite prohibition-style vaping laws, more nicotine was consumed in the past year than eight years ago.

Alan Gor 25 August 2025 Australia’s latest vaping amendments aren’t about keeping people safe. They’re about control , handing...

Alan Gor 24 August 2024 A satirical stroll through the consequences of prohibition Morning: alarm, espresso, inventory audit He wakes at...

Calling vaping “tobacco” is like calling a seatbelt “a car crash.” It ignores the very reason the technology exists: to reduce harm.

the truth is out: government health messaging has been misleading, ideologically driven, and deadly.

Alan Gor 17 August 2025 Australia has become a live case study of what happens when governments follow the World Health Organisation’s...

A continuation from my previous blog . Why Australia’s national wastewater data show nicotine hasn’t fallen, and why the ACIC’s wording...