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Australia’s Illicit Tobacco Crisis: How Baalman, Butler and the PHAA Are Gaslighting the Public
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...
Alan Gor
Sep 7, 2025
The Biggest Tobacco Bust in Queensland History Proves One Thing: Prohibition Breeds Crime
By Alan Gor 31 August 2025 This week, the headlines shouted “historic bust.” Thirty million cigarettes. Nearly 400,000 vapes. Tons of...
Alan Gor
Aug 31, 2025
Australia’s Vaping “Health” Reforms: Safety Theatre, Power Grab
Alan Gor 25 August 2025 Australia’s latest vaping amendments aren’t about keeping people safe. They’re about control , handing...
Alan Gor
Aug 25, 2025
A Day in the Life of a Black-Market Vape Dealer
Alan Gor 24 August 2024 A satirical stroll through the consequences of prohibition Morning: alarm, espresso, inventory audit He wakes at...
Alan Gor
Aug 24, 2025
The WHO’s Harm-Reduction Blind Spot — And How Australia’s Vape Prohibition Propped Up the Cigarette
Alan Gor 17 August 2025 Australia has become a live case study of what happens when governments follow the World Health Organisation’s...
Alan Gor
Aug 17, 2025
Wastewater doesn’t lie — but the report does a neat little sleight of hand
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
Aug 15, 2025
Yet Another Anti-Vaping Echo Chamber: Why This “Community of Practice” Misses the Point
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
Aug 10, 2025
How Do the “Academic Advisors” Get Away With Their Ideology?
Alan Gor 05 August 2025 In Australia’s ongoing war on vaping and tobacco, a small but powerful group of public health academics has...
Alan Gor
Aug 5, 2025
The ABC Is Not Asking Questions — It’s Taking Sides on Vaping
Alan Gor 03 August 2025 As Australia suffers the predictable fallout of its aggressive anti-vaping policies from skyrocketing youth...
Alan Gor
Aug 3, 2025
The Limits and Risks of Overstating the OurFutures Vaping Study
Alan Gor 30 July 2025 The OurFutures Vaping trial has been promoted as a breakthrough in preventing youth e-cigarette use. However, a...
Alan Gor
Jul 30, 2025
Twisting the Data to Blame Vaping Again
Alan Gor 28 July 2025 Becky Freeman and her co-authors are back with another paper trying to convince the public that vaping is to...
Alan Gor
Jul 28, 2025
What Will It Take for the Government to Face the Consequences of Its Tobacco Policies?
Alan Gor 27/07/2025 Australia has long held itself up as a world leader in tobacco control, and for a time, that reputation was deserved....
Alan Gor
Jul 26, 2025
Two Stories, One Country: The Deep Divide Between Cancer Council and Roy Morgan on Youth Smoking and Vaping
Alan Gore 16 July 2025 In 2025, two major public health reports are painting starkly different pictures of where things stand and who we...
Alan Gor
Jul 16, 2025
The Roy Morgan Saga Continues: How Australia’s Youth Smoking Crisis Was Buried, Edited, and Ignored
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 Gor
Jul 9, 2025
The Data Doesn’t Lie: Albanese’s Vape Crackdown Backfires as Young Australians Turn to Smoking
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
Jul 4, 2025
Becky Freeman’s Commentary: A Masterclass in Ideological Stubbornness Over Practical Public Health
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 Gor
Jul 1, 2025
Framing Harm Reduction as a Threat: A Critical Response to the Nicotine Pouch Perception Study in Australia
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 Gor
Jun 29, 2025
The Global Echo Chamber: How the WHO’s Tobacco Control Conference Became a Parade of Failure
Alan Gore 26 June 2025 Another year. Another WHO-backed tobacco control conference. Another missed opportunity to save millions of lives....
Alan Gor
Jun 26, 2025
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
Jun 22, 2025
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, 2025
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