What The Media Say - March To May 2025
- Pippa Starr
- May 31
- 42 min read
Updated: Jun 14
This page analyses what is said about Australian vaping and tobacco harm reduction in the media, including what may be published in journals and by influencers.
This will help to hold the media accountable to report accurately and sensibly.
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2025 Media Sentiment Score (March - May '25):
Positive | 12 |
Neutral | 15 |
Negative | 15 |
May 2025:
31 May 2025 Young Australians throwing away illegal vapes as prices soar
19 May 2025 Tobacco Tax Disaster Playing Out On Streets & In Budget
1 May 2025 Coalition Confirms It Will Legalise Vaping
8 May 2025 Cancer Council Backs WA's New Anti-Vaping Rules
April 2025:
15 April 2025 New Study Shows Champix Could Work For Vapers
15 April 2025 QLD's Flying Squad Tackles BM Tobacco & Vapes
4 April 2025 Nitazenes Found In Black Market Vapes
4 April 2025 Brisbane At Centre Of QLD Illegal Cig Boom
2 April 2025 Gold Coast Stores Shut In Health Authority Raids
2 April 2025 Tobacco Excise Revenue Has Tanked
2 April 2025 Has Australia Passed "Peak Vape"? 📺
1 April 2025 Massive Drop In Cig Sales As SA Turns To Black Market
1 April 2025 Menthol Cigs Banned From April
1 April 2025 Grim Warnings Printed On Cigs Vid 📺
March 2025:
27 March 2025 Mark Butler ABC RN Breakfast
27 March 2025 Secret Warehouses Used By Vic Police Cost $750K To Store Vapes
27 March 2025 Push For Tobacco Excise Freeze To Curb Black Market
27 March 2025 Unintended Cost Of Tobacco Tax
27 March 2025 Australia's Fight With Big Tobacco Fuelled A Black Market
26 March 2025 Mark Butler ABC Adelaide
26 March 2025 Health Minister Defends Tobacco Strategy
26 March 2025 Budget Forecast To Lose $7B As Consumers Turn From Legal Tobacco
26 March 2025 Raising Cig Taxes & Tobacco Wars A Serious Budget Problem
26 March 2025 Australia Refuses To Learn It's Lesson On Tobacco Taxes
23 March 2025 Vic Gov Back 25% Of Vaping Recommendations
21 March 2025 Tobacco Lobby Claims Vaping Is Displacing Smoking
19 March 2025 Vaping & Black Market Burn $31B Hole
19 March 2025 Agressively Taxing Tobacco Black Market Flourishes
19 March 2025 Calls For Freeze To Combat Black Market
17 March 2025 Tasmania Vaping Ban Bill
12 March 2025 Mark Butler ABC Breakfast
12 March 2025 Mark Butler ABC Radio Enforcement Isn't Working
12 March 2025 Mark Butler Presser $160M On Illicit Smokes
8 March 2025 Vaping Epidemic Grips WA
6 March 2025 Do Vapes Stop Smokers From Quitting Tobacco
6 March 2025 Tobacco & Vapes Seller Fined $3500
4 March 2025 Australia's Tobacco Wars 4 Corners
4 March 2025 Govt Have Created Tobacco Black Market
3 March 2025 Enforcement Needed To Stop Illegal Tobacco In Tas
2 March 2025 Authorities Wasted Years Cracking On Illicit Trade
2 March 2025 60 Mins- Deadly Gangwar Illegal Trade
2 March 2025 Vaping Delusions Up In Smoke
