Alan Gore 22 June 2025 Australia is facing a nicotine crisis not because of vapes, but because of politicians who’ve wilfully ignored...

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 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 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 31 May 2025 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-31/lung-foundation-calls-for-supermarket-tobacco-ban/105348498 The Lung...

Alan Gor 30 May 2025 Each year on World Vape Day, consumers, advocates, scientists, and public health reformers come together to...

Alan Gor 28 May 2025 Anti-vaping activists advising the Australian Health Minister are praising South Australia’s vaping enforcement...

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.

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 19 May 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17579139251317350 Australia is often hailed as a leader in tobacco...

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...

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 8 May 2025 The campaign signs are coming down. The soundbites have faded. And now that the election is over, there’s space,...

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

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 27 April 2025 “They Just Want to Quit — But We’re Giving Them Nothing That Works” Why Australia’s remote Indigenous communities...

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...

Alan Gor 18 April 2025 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17579139251319668 Becky Freeman et al Promote Parental Fear Over Evidence...

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...

Alan Gor 14 April 2025 The Sax Institute’s interview - 28 May 2024 - with Associate Professor Becky Freeman offers a glimpse into the...