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Flawed Assumptions, Misleading Conclusions: Debunking the Anti-Vaping Narrative
Alan Gor 22 March 2025 The tobacco lobby claims vaping is displacing youth smoking – a close look at the evidence tells another story...
09algor
Mar 22, 2025
Nicotine improves working memory via augmenting BDNF levels through α7 nAChR: evidence from clinical and pre-clinical studies
15 March 2025 Yingyan Li, PhD , Xin Li , Yaning Fu, PhD , Wenjun Mou , Zuxin Chen, PhD , Ping Wu, PhD , Fanglin Liu, PhD , Huan Chen, PhD...
09algor
Mar 14, 2025
A Rebuttal to Mark Butler’s Misinformation on Vaping and Tobacco Control
Alan Gor 12 March 2025 https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/radio-interview-with-minister-butler-3aw-12-march...
09algor
Mar 12, 2025
Patterns of Use of e-Cigarettes and Their Respiratory Effects: A Critical Umbrella Review
11 March 2025 Giusy Rita Maria La Rosa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5127-5299 g_larosa92@live.it , Riccardo Polosa , and Renée O'Leary...
09algor
Mar 10, 2025
ABC Radio Irresponsibly Broadcasts A Misleading Antivaper Activist!
The fear-mongering narrative that vaping will hook an entire generation on nicotine is not supported by the evidence.
Pippa Starr
Mar 10, 2025
Simon Chapman’s critique of Mendelsohn et al.’s paper
Alan Gor 05 March 2025 https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Mendelsohn-CP-et-al.-Do-the-differing-vaping-and-smoking...
09algor
Mar 5, 2025
The Cost of Australia's Tobacco Wars: Prohibitionist Vaping Policies and the World's Highest Tobacco Prices
Australia's stringent tobacco control measures have inadvertently led to a surge in arson attacks targeting tobacco retailers. These inciden
Pippa Starr
Mar 4, 2025
Six Urban Myths About Smoke-Free Nicotine
04 March 2025 Brad Rodu https://www.sensible-med.com/p/six-urban-myths-about-smoke-free As a general internist, I am obsessed with...
09algor
Mar 3, 2025
Comparative effects of e-cigarette and conventional cigarette smoke on in vitro bronchial epithelial cell responses
03 March 2025 K.L. Pleiss a , D.D. Mosley a , C.D. Bauer a , K.L. Bailey a b , C.A. Ochoa a , D.L. Knoell c , T.A. Wyatt a b d...
09algor
Mar 2, 2025
Demand On WHO FCTC COP11 To Embrace Consumer Voices Intensifies
25 February, 2025 The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) today demanded the World Health Organization’s...
CAPHRA
Feb 26, 2025
A.L.I.V.E. Advocacy Movement Releases Policy Statement Calling for Evidence-Based Vaping Policies!
MEDIA STATEMENT For Immediate Release Date: February 26, 2024 The ALIVE advocacy movement is a collaboration of consumer vaping consumer...
Pippa Starr
Feb 26, 2025
Cardiovascular health effects of vaping e-cigarettes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
26 February 2025 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-5816 Anasua Kundu 1 , Anna Feore 2 , Sherald Sanchez 1 , Nada Abu-Zarour 3 , Megan...
09algor
Feb 25, 2025
A Flawed Victory Lap: SAHMRI’s (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute) Vaping Study and the Misguided War on Harm Reduction
AL Gor 25 February 2025 The Australian government and its health agencies are celebrating what they claim is a “world-leading” victory...
09algor
Feb 25, 2025
Association between electronic cigarette use and respiratory outcomes among people with no established smoking history: a comprehensive review and critical appraisal
24 February 2025 Arielle Selya , Giusy Rita Maria La Rosa , Lucia Spicuzza , Jaymin B. Morjaria , Grazia Caci & Riccardo Polosa...
09algor
Feb 23, 2025
RESPIRATORY EFFECTS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE USE IN INDIVIDUALS WHO NEVER SMOKED: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
23 February 2025 Grazia Caci a , Arielle Selya b c , Giusy Rita Maria La Rosa d , Lucia Spicuzza c d e , Jaymin B. Morjaria f , Giulio...
09algor
Feb 22, 2025
Vote1 For Tobacco Harm Reduction!
So far the vaping prohibitions have cost the Australian economy billions, between Govt spending, first responders to firebombings and much m
Pippa Starr
Feb 18, 2025
A full guide to vapes: Post 2.
18 February 2025 Roberto Sussman https://robertosussman.substack.com/p/a-full-guide-to-vapes-post-2?r=26wn0m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium...
09algor
Feb 17, 2025
ALIVE Advocacy Movement Presents Exclusive Award To Health Minister Mark Butler!
11 February 2024 by Pippa Starr Watch the Video >> A few days ago advocates from the ALIVE Advocacy Movement presented Health Minister...
Pippa Starr
Feb 11, 2025
New Zealand’s liberal vaping laws linked to faster smoking decline compared to Australia!
A new study published in Addiction has revealed that smoking rates declined twice as fast in New Zealand as in
Australia between 2016 and 2
09algor
Feb 10, 2025
Blowing Smoke: Why Banning Vapes Is Not The Answer
10 February 2025 Written by Lili Cavanagh https://www.drugpolicy.org.au/blowing_smoke_why_banning_vapes_is_not_the_answer However,...
09algor
Feb 9, 2025
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