The number of vapes sold in Australia may be significantly higher than 10 million per month, despite recent efforts by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to clarify reports on the scale of the black market.

2 June 2025 by Pippa Starr There's something in the water that we need to have a national conversation about! A quiet walk and a little...

Mark Butler likes to say he "won’t raise the white flag" in his war on vaping, but let’s be honest: this war is already lost.

In all the drug wars and everything we've had in Australian history, we have not seen a bigger debacle than this. The black market has taken over

It's just another case of bandwagon riding and virtue signalling mumpsimus's who just happen to benefit from a history of funding from deaths of smokers

If you’re a vaper, a former smoker, or someone who supports harm reduction, now is the time to act

It is with immense pride and emotion that we announce the very first presentation of the Colin Mendelson Medal, a tribute that means more than words can express, and one that we hope will continue to inspire generations of advocates to come.

our frontline health professionals are ill-equipped to carry out Mark Butler's chemist-based vaping policy.

Mark Butler's vaping policy could be killing Australians by turning them back to smoking! The annual death toll has now grown to 24000 Aus

New data from a survey of 315 Australian pharmacies has revealed the collapse of the government’s Pharmacy-Only Vaping Model, with the vast

by Pippa Starr 26 March 2025 Australia’s War on Nicotine Has Backfired—The Black Market Is Winning, and We’re All Paying the Price! When...

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) today condemned the World Health Organisation (WHO) for dismissing s

The fear-mongering narrative that vaping will hook an entire generation on nicotine is not supported by the evidence.

Among smokers who underwent PCI for coronary artery disease, switching to E-cigarette use (particularly complete transition) or quitting smo

MEDIA STATEMENT For Immediate Release Date:  February 26, 2024 The ALIVE advocacy movement is a collaboration of consumer vaping consumer...

The ALIVE advocacy movement is the most active consumer based tobacco harm reduction movement in Australia with no ties to any tobacco or...

So far the vaping prohibitions have cost the Australian economy billions, between Govt spending, first responders to firebombings and much m

11 February 2024 by Pippa Starr Watch the Video >> A few days ago advocates from the ALIVE Advocacy Movement presented Health Minister...

A new study published in Addiction has revealed that smoking rates declined twice as fast in New Zealand as in Australia between 2016 and 2

by Pippa Starr 29 January 2025 Jews become targets of firebombings and graffiti incidents on a few occasions in this country and it fast...