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...

Alan Gor 10 August 2025 Yet another study by Michelle Jongenelis et al has been rolled out under the banner of “protecting young...

Alan Gor 05 August 2025 In Australia’s ongoing war on vaping and tobacco, a small but powerful group of public health academics has...

The truth is here. It’s emotionless, tireless, and it’s faster than your PR team. It doesn’t wear a lanyard, but it knows what you’re up to!

Alan Gor 03 August 2025 As Australia suffers the predictable fallout of its aggressive anti-vaping policies from skyrocketing youth...

By Pippa Starr 3 August 2025 Planning an overseas getaway? If you're one of the 1.7 million Australians who vape, many of whom have...

Alan Gor 30 July 2025 The OurFutures Vaping  trial has been promoted as a breakthrough in preventing youth e-cigarette use. However, a...

Alan Gor 28 July 2025 Becky Freeman and her co-authors are back with another paper trying to convince the public that vaping is to...

Alan Gor 27/07/2025 Australia has long held itself up as a world leader in tobacco control, and for a time, that reputation was deserved....

rather than fund innovation or scale up proven harm-reduction strategies, the government throws taxpayer money at an organisation that will continue defending the status quo, one that is failing.