Alan Gore 09 July 2025 >> A continuation of my previous blog << For years, Australia was hailed as a global success story in the war...

Alan Gore 04 July 2025 The Roy Morgan survey findings from May 2025 have confirmed what many of us in the tobacco harm reduction...

Alan Gor 1 July 2025 https://archive.is/4ACFU "I can see seven smoke shops from my bus stop - governments must act" Becky Freeman’s...

Alan Gore 29 June 2025 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40570643/ Mary-Ellen E Brierley   1 ,  Runze Li   2 ,  Michelle I Jongenelis   A...

Alan Gore 26 June 2025 Another year. Another WHO-backed tobacco control conference. Another missed opportunity to save millions of lives....

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.