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Band-Aids on a Gaping Wound: How Australia’s Vape Policy Failure Fuels Crime, Confusion, and Harm
Alan Gore 22 June 2025 Australia is facing a nicotine crisis not because of vapes, but because of politicians who’ve wilfully ignored...

Alan Gor
2 days ago


Stuck in the Past: How Australia’s Health Institutions Betrayed Smokers and Ignored Harm Reduction
Australia’s peak health organisations must admit the truth: They got it wrong. And the longer they double down, the more lives will be lost unnecessarily to smoking-related disease.

Alan Gor
Jun 15


Australia’s Prohibition Crisis: Police Revolt, Black Markets Boom, and Public Health Pays the Price
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...

Alan Gor
Jun 8


World No Tobacco Day 2025: A Global Campaign Against Tobacco Harm Reduction, Not Tobacco
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...

Alan Gor
Jun 1


Supermarket Cigarette Ban: Another Step in the War on Visibility, Not Behaviour
Alan Gor 31 May 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-31/lung-foundation-calls-for-supermarket-tobacco-ban/105348498 The Lung...

Alan Gor
May 31


World Vape Day 2025: Exposing the WHO’s War on Harm Reduction
Alan Gor 30 May 2025 Each year on World Vape Day, consumers, advocates, scientists, and public health reformers come together to...

Alan Gor
May 30


Mark Butler’s Advisors Built This Black Market, Not Criminal Gangs
Alan Gor 28 May 2025 Anti-vaping activists advising the Australian Health Minister are praising South Australia’s vaping enforcement...

Alan Gor
May 28


Alan's Quit Story
Vaping didn’t just help me stop smoking. It gave me my life back. Through Alive, I realized my story wasn’t just personal. It was political. Our voice matters. We are the evidence.

Pippa Starr
May 26


This Is What Prohibition Looks Like: Australia’s Tobacco Black Market is a Public Health Own Goal
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
May 19


Australia’s Vape Crackdown: A Cautionary Tale in Public Health Overreach
Alan Gor 19 May 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17579139251317350 Australia is often hailed as a leader in tobacco...

Alan Gor
May 19


“Tackling Tobacco” Isn’t a Solution — It’s Systemic Control Disguised as Care
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...

Alan Gor
May 12


Inaccurate and misleading meta-analysis of E-cigarettes and population-based diseases
12 May 2025 Brad Rodu , Nantaporn Plurphanswat & Jordan Rodu https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11739-025-03956-w?utm_source=r...

Alan Gor
May 12


The Election Is Over. It’s Time for the Media to Start Telling the Truth About Safer Alternatives.
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,...

Alan Gor
May 8


ACOSH Doubles Down on Fear—But It’s Time for Facts, Not Fantasy
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

Alan Gor
May 2


Fear First, Facts Later: Griffith’s Blurred Minds Academy Pushes Panic Over Evidence
what it’s really doing is undermining public understanding and pushing young people further from evidence-based conversations. There is no mention of proportionality, relative risk, or tobacco harm reduction.

Alan Gor
Apr 30


Prohibition Is Killing Remote Communities — It’s Time to Embrace Harm Reduction
Alan Gor 27 April 2025 “They Just Want to Quit — But We’re Giving Them Nothing That Works” Why Australia’s remote Indigenous communities...

09algor
Apr 27


Trading Vapes for Pills: Are We Really Helping Young People Quit, or Just Handing Over Their Health to Big Pharma?
Al Gor 25 April 2025 A new study out of the US is making waves, particularly in Australia, where policymakers are eager to latch onto...

09algor
Apr 25


Misplaced Parental Fears and Ideological Framing in Anti-Vaping Narratives
Alan Gor 18 April 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17579139251319668 Becky Freeman et al Promote Parental Fear Over Evidence...

09algor
Apr 18


Queensland Health’s Vaping Report: Policy-Based Evidence, Not Evidence-Based Policy
Alan Gor 16 April 2025 https://www.choreport.health.qld.gov.au/our-lifestyle/electronic-cigarettes If you ever needed a case study of how...

09algor
Apr 16


Policy by Echo Chamber: A Critical Look at Becky Freeman’s Role in Shaping Vaping Regulation
Alan Gor 14 April 2025 The Sax Institute’s interview - 28 May 2024 - with Associate Professor Becky Freeman offers a glimpse into the...

09algor
Apr 14

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