ONE OF THE MOST COMMON arguments against vaping is that it will increase youth smoking (the ‘gateway theory’). However, there is now good...

FORTY FIVE LEADING TOBACCO TREATMENT, public health and addiction experts from Australia and New Zealand are urging lawmakers to listen...

INTERNAL CONFIDENTIAL EMAILS from the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs ( ANACAD ) have blown Australia’s...

VAPING IN AUSTRALIA has been a harrowing and unpredictable roller coaster ride. Bullied and terrorised by successive Health Ministers,...

I HAVE JUST RETURNED HOME from the tenth Global Forum on Nicotine conference in Warsaw. This blog summarises nine key take-away messages...

A RECENT REPORT for the Department of Health and Ageing has found that Australia’s adult smoking rate has not declined over the last 5...

EVERYONE AGREES that young people should not vape or smoke. However, the current fear and panic about youth vaping is not based on the...

FORTY FOUR LEADING TOBACCO CONTROL AND ADDICTION EXPERTS from Australia and New Zealand have written an open letter to Health Minister...

THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT has sunk to a new level of misinformation and scaremongering in its latest attempt to demonise vaping. The...

SELLING VAPES LEGALLY to adult smokers from convenience stores reduces the sale of deadly cigarettes according to new research from...

THE TOBACCO COMPANIES, criminal gangs and the Treasury are the winners from last night’s Budget announcements on smoking and vaping. The...

MANY VAPERS AND RETAILERS have contacted me, understandably confused and distressed by Mark Butler’s “plan to ban ” vaping. The misguided...

HEALTH MINISTER MARK BUTLER said in a recent interview that the claim that most vapes sold to kids do not contain nicotine is “utter...

WHO IS ADVISING AUSTRALIA’S HEALTH MINISTER Mark Butler on vaping? The Minister has been seriously misinformed about the benefits and...

HEALTHCANADA HAS UPDATED ITS ADVICE ON VAPING to reflect the latest scientific evidence and supports of vaping as a quitting aid for...

NICOTINE VAPING PRODUCTS should be sold to adult smokers from licensed retail outlets without a nicotine prescription in Australia as...

THE NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT is seeking submissions on vaping for a Parliamentary Inquiry. This is long overdue. Vaping could help...

A RECENT AUSTRALIAN STUDY has found that current vaping by young people (mostly young adults) who have never smoked is rare. Most vaping...

QUEENSLAND IS CONTINUING ITS VENDETTA against vaping, announcing a parliamentary inquiry to investigate the prevalence of youth vaping...

THE VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA’S RESPECTED HEALTH AND MEDICAL ORGANISATIONS on vaping nicotine are out-of-step with leading organisations in...