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...

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...