ONE OF THE MOST COMMON arguments against vaping is that it will increase youth smoking (the 'gateway theory'). However, there is now good evidence that this is not true. In fact, vaping is REDUCING smoking rates in young people. Young……
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FORTY FIVE LEADING TOBACCO TREATMENT, public health and addiction experts from Australia and New Zealand are urging lawmakers to listen to the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ANACAD) ahead of Health Minister Mark Butler’s proposed vaping……
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INTERNAL CONFIDENTIAL EMAILS from the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ANACAD) have blown Australia’s prohibition policy on vaping out of the water. The Council advises the Health Minister confidentially, but emails released under Freedom of Information……
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VAPING IN AUSTRALIA has been a harrowing and unpredictable roller coaster ride. Bullied and terrorised by successive Health Ministers, many vapers feel like collateral damage in an ideological war. One vaper pulls no punches and tells her heart-wrenching story. Born……
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I HAVE JUST RETURNED HOME from the tenth Global Forum on Nicotine conference in Warsaw. This blog summarises nine key take-away messages from the conference and why I am optimistic about the future. 1. Australia is a laughing stock One……
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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 years and youth smoking is on the rise. The government's solution? Crack down on vaping! The……
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EVERYONE AGREES that young people should not vape or smoke. However, the current fear and panic about youth vaping is not based on the evidence, according to our peer-reviewed paper published today in the International Journal of Drug Policy. The……
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FORTY FOUR LEADING TOBACCO CONTROL AND ADDICTION EXPERTS from Australia and New Zealand have written an open letter to Health Minister Mark Butler asking him to reconsider the proposal to further restrict access to nicotine vaping products in Australia. Their……
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THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT has sunk to a new level of misinformation and scaremongering in its latest attempt to demonise vaping. The government laboratories tested seventeen black market vaping products and made unjustified and exaggerated claims, with the Premier saying that……
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SELLING VAPES LEGALLY to adult smokers from convenience stores reduces the sale of deadly cigarettes according to new research from Canada. The Canadian study examined the sale of cigarettes after the introduction of Juul to the market in 2018, using……
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