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Doctor, economist and ex-Border Force chief tell Albanese to adopt the Coalition’s tobacco policy

Three Australian experts wrote to the Prime Minister on Thursday urging him to implement his opponent's tobacco policy. The signatories are Dr Nick Coatsworth, deputy chief medical officer through the pandemic; Richard Holden, Vice-Chancellor's Professor of economics at UNSW; and Rohan Pike,…

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Australian Senate committee calls for wider legal vape sales and tobacco tax freeze

An Australian Senate committee has called for wider legal sales of regulated nicotine vapes and an immediate freeze on tobacco tax rises, warning that the country’s current approach is “facing a breaking point”. The Liberal-led majority report from the Senate Legal and…

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Tobacco Control Advocates: Big Tobacco’s Useful Idiots

Source Madonna has spent her entire career tracking what the young are into. The objective of any corporation is first to survive, then to thrive. A decade ago, tobacco companies had to shift into non-combustibles to survive as nicotine alternative products were…

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Australia’s legal nicotine market collapses as illicit products reach 80 per cent of consumption

Australia’s illicit nicotine market has grown to account for an estimated 80 per cent of all consumption, as new government analysis shows vape use surging while consumption through legal channels falls sharply. Experimental estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggest…

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Almost 96% of Australian vapes are bought illegally as pharmacy model struggles, research suggests

Almost 96 per cent of vapes bought in Australia may be coming from the illicit market, according to research that raises fresh questions over whether the country’s pharmacy-only sales model is working. A survey of 4,000 recent nicotine consumers by criminologist James…

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The war on drugs comes for nicotine: Brussels lobbyists, failed Australian prohibitionists and a tiny island lobby the UN to treat vapers like meth addicts

A tiny archipelago with a population of just 18,000, has asked the UN to put nicotine on the same list as crystal meth, ecstasy and the date-rape drug GHB in an audacious move co-ordinated by European tobacco control bigwigs. Palau - a…

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Reach Out, Don’t Shun: What World No Tobacco Day Used to Mean

The first World No-Smoking Day fell on 7 April 1988, timed to the WHO’s 40th anniversary. South Africa wasn’t a WHO member then—apartheid had seen to that. Yet we marked the moment anyway, launching a special edition of the South African Medical…

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New Zealand’s smoking rate has halved in six years – with vaping a major reason why

New Zealand has cut its smoking rate almost in half in just six years, with vaping playing a central role in one of the world’s fastest declines in cigarette use. A major new report on global tobacco harm reduction says New Zealand’s…

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The $4.2 Trillion Illegal Empire: How Illicit Tobacco Funds Terrorism | Hayley van Loon

In this insightful interview, Hayley van Loon, CEO of Crime Stoppers International, details the alarming convergence of organised crime and state actors across global illicit trades, particularly focusing on the illicit tobacco industry. She highlights how this $4.2 trillion "Illegal Empire" is…

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