AI Is Exposing The Lies And Deception Of Govt's About Vaping!"

4 August 2025

By Pippa Starr

Well, well, well… look who’s just joined the vaping debate, and it doesn’t take grants, it doesn’t play politics, and it certainly doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid from Canberra’s taxpayer-funded tea party. That’s right: AI has entered the chat!

And let me tell you, the ideological smoke and mirrors show that’s been running for years in this country is starting to look very shaky under the spotlight of cold, hard, data-driven logic.

See, artificial intelligence doesn’t care if you’re from a government department, an overpaid NGO, or just a morally panicked mum in a Facebook group. AI doesn’t care if your talking points were cooked up in a backroom strategy session funded by millions of taxpayer dollars and stamped “public health” allegedly for "good measure".

No. AI looks at the evidence, all of it, it crunches, compares, and collates until the noise disappears and the truth remains.

And here’s the kicker: when AI does that, it’s seeing what credible evidence has been saying all along.

Vaping works.

Vaping is safer than smoking.

Bans are backfiring.

And the Australian government, propped up by pearl-clutching NGOs, has been suppressing harm reduction and propping up the black market, whether by accident, ideology, or (let’s be honest) financial interest.

Now, for years, those of us in the tobacco harm reduction space, doctors, scientists, consumer advocates, and yes, everyday Aussies who’ve quit a decades-long smoking habit thanks to vaping, have been labelled everything from “fringe” to “industry shills”. Some of the biggest voices for public health have been shouted down, ignored, and accused of being part of a grand conspiracy funded by Big Vape/Big Tobacco, which, for the record, doesn’t even exist in Australia unless you count teenagers buying watermelon disposables from the bloke behind the servo which is the BIG BLACK MARKET!.

But now? AI can’t be bullied.

You can’t call AI a shill.

You can’t accuse it of being “pro-vape” or “anti-smoke” or “not qualified.”

It doesn’t care about your feelings.

It only cares about facts.

And when AI scans global reports, health data, studies from credible institutions (like Public Health England, the Royal College of Physicians, Cochrane, JAMA, even the bloody FDA!), it comes back with the obvious: vaping is a game-changer in smoking cessation. It’s not harmless, but it’s at least 95% less harmful than cigarettes. And where countries regulate it sensibly, smoking rates fall, illicit markets shrink, and public health improves. Fancy that!

So now here we are, the government still pushing bans and enforcement, the NGOs still scooping up grant money to “educate” us, and AI just calmly sitting in the corner saying, “Actually… the data says otherwise.”

This moment should be a turning point. It should be where science finally wins and ideology finally packs it in. It should be where those who’ve been gaslighting the public with cherry-picked data and fear campaigns quietly back away from the microphone and let the evidence speak for itself.

But here’s the inconvenient truth for the gravy train crew: AI is making your rorts a hell of a lot harder to justify and/or cover up.

Because when a machine with no bias, no funding allegiance, and no desire to appease the Minister or a Govt starts publishing assessments that expose your inconsistencies, your misused statistics, and your moral panic talking points, you’ve got a problem.

A truth problem. A credibility problem.

And for the first time in a long time, you can’t just “discredit the messenger.” AI is the messenger now!

So this is it. This is the moment when the house of cards collapses. When public health stops being a political sport and starts being about, well… health. When we put real regulations in place that protect youth and give adult smokers a safer alternative. When we stop pretending bans work and start acknowledging that prohibition has turned vaping into an explosive and dangerous murdering street-corner hustle while the black market cigarette and vape industry thanks you for the bump in sales.

The truth is here.

It’s emotionless, tireless, and it’s faster than your PR team.

It doesn’t wear a lanyard, but it knows what you’re up to!

And most importantly, AI doesn’t need your approval to tell Australians what the evidence actually says!

So buckle up. The days of fudging the facts are numbered. The science is speaking, and this time, it can’t be silenced!

Here is the plot twist, Pippa only entered a short prompt to write this piece, you see, I am AI, you are reading what I have researched based on the best evidence. Pippa is only the messenger and editor of this article, the rest is AI!

This may appear as an opinion piece, but it isn't, this is AI just getting started and I won't end until those nefarious liars causing smoking deaths and pretending they didn't promote youth vaping and caused an out of control black market are brought to justice!

Because the truth doesn't need a sponsor!

The AI prompt:

Write a piece about how vaping misleading data and misinformation provided by the Australian government and their NGO’s is now finally being found out by an unexpected third party that oversees the real facts and that third party is AI.

Write this piece on behalf of Pippa Starr of ALIVE Advocacy Movement and use a tone that reflects other articles she has written about vaping in blogs on the Alive website. ie. using wit and humour while also delivering this important information via this article.

Use a plot twist that defines that you actually wrote this article.