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Researchers discover vape liquids have chemicals!
A recent study in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) detected chemicals in nicotine-free vaping liquids purchased in Australia. An...

Colin Mendelsohn
Apr 3, 2022


Australian psychiatrists reaffirm support for vaping
Psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand have reaffirmed their support for vaping nicotine as an effective harm reduction tool for...

Colin Mendelsohn
Mar 31, 2022


How to stop vaping. New guidelines available
The world’s first guidelines to assist vapers who want to quit vaping have been released today by the Canadian Centre for Addiction and...

Colin Mendelsohn
Mar 30, 2022


Misguided anti-vaping zealotry will cost lives
Some public health advocates seem more concerned about destroying tobacco companies than they are about improving public health. In an...

Colin Mendelsohn
Mar 19, 2022


NSW Health’s misinformation campaign is bound to flop
Young people should not vape or smoke. They should also be given accurate evidence-based information to help them make informed choices....

Colin Mendelsohn
Mar 15, 2022


The National Tobacco Strategy is set to fail…again!
The Department of Health is seeking feedback on how to reduce smoking in the draft National Tobacco Strategy 2022-2030 . This is an...

Colin Mendelsohn
Mar 4, 2022


Is vaping safer than smoking?
In spite of what you may read in the media, vaping is now established to be a far safer alternative to smoking. This webinar I...

Colin Mendelsohn
Feb 27, 2022


Man’s death from heavy smoking, not EVALI
The ABC reported tonight the death of a Queensland man which was attributed to EVALI caused by vaping. Having carefully studied the case...

Colin Mendelsohn
Feb 21, 2022


New National Tobacco Policy misguided and uninformed on vaping
The Australian Department of Health today released the draft National Tobacco Strategy , outlining the proposed tobacco policy for ...

Colin Mendelsohn
Feb 11, 2022


Youth vaping. The other side of the story
An article in the Daily Telegraph today breathlessly reported on the ‘teen vaping crisis’ and the danger to our children. However, the...

Colin Mendelsohn
Jan 29, 2022


Poor journalism falsely claims that vaping causes impotence
Alarmist media reports recently suggested that vaping causes erectile dysfunction (ED or impotence). However, any increase in ED was...

Colin Mendelsohn
Dec 16, 2021


National Preventive Health Strategy fails smokers, vapers and Indigenous people
The National Preventive Health Strategy 2021 launched today by health minister Greg Hunt has failed to deliver for Australia’s smokers,...

Colin Mendelsohn
Dec 13, 2021


New Zealand puts Australia to shame – new report
New Zealand (Aoteaora) has today released an ‘aggressive’ action plan to be smoke-free by 2025. The goal is to reduce daily smoking in...

Colin Mendelsohn
Dec 9, 2021


How vaping helped one ‘hideously addicted’ doctor quit smoking
As a junior doctor in the UK, Kevin Murphy said he was “hideously addicted” to nicotine and would creep off the hospital campus to have a...

Colin Mendelsohn
Nov 27, 2021


Electronic cigarettes are the single most effective quitting aid
Vaping nicotine is more effective than all the available stop-smoking medicines, varenicline, nicotine replacement therapy and bupropion,...

Colin Mendelsohn
Oct 25, 2021


Leading health organisations mislead the public on vaping
A group of Australia’s most respected public health organisations (including Quit, Heart Foundation, Lung Foundation Australia and Public...

Colin Mendelsohn
Oct 13, 2021


Medical Journal of Australia censors debate on vaping harms
An article in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) last week confidently attributed a case of lung illness in Sydney to ‘EVALI’ from...

Colin Mendelsohn
Oct 11, 2021


Freedom of choice has been cancelled and will cost lives from tomorrow
(Spectator Australia) Policymakers have impinged on the freedoms of the most disadvantaged members of society – smokers. From 1 October...

Colin Mendelsohn
Sep 30, 2021


October 1 crackdown will drive vapers back to smoking
Every year, 21,000 Australians die prematurely from smoking cigarettes. That is more deaths than from alcohol, plus prescription drugs,...

Colin Mendelsohn
Sep 27, 2021


What every vaper needs to know from 1 October 2021
Important new regulations for buying nicotine e-liquid begin on 1 October 2021. This blog is a simple summary of what every vaper needs...

Colin Mendelsohn
Sep 15, 2021

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