🚨 New paper alert: 'Has Australia lost control of its tobacco and nicotine markets?'
Short answer - yes, and largely by following two WHO endorsed policies: very high tobacco taxes and a ban on vapes and other less harmful nicotine products
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Good summary of how we got into this mess in Australia.
#OilCrisis #Auspol
Does the public health establishment want a smoke-free world or a nicotine-free world? 🤔 We sat down with Clive Bates at the @WNC_global to unpack the reality of tobacco policy. Prohibition doesn't end demand; it just triggers a massive black market response. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/smok...
What stands out from the recent submissions to Australia’s illicit tobacco inquiry isn’t diversity of thinking. It’s a suffocating uniformity that borders on intellectual stagnation.
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Wow!
‘Illicit tobacco consumption share & trajectory’. Australia. From: Phillip Morris Limited
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“The illicit tobacco market is not an issue that policing can now ‘arrest our way out of’”
‘The current cost of legal tobacco products in comparison to the illegal product, is also a driver .. ‘
Police Federation of Australia
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What reversals and when do they take effect? I'm sure NZ will still look great for vapers compared to the awful situation 8 in Oz.
The amount of #JunkScience now coming out of the tobacco control field is shocking. They are capable of proving rain falls up, kittens are reptiles, and triangles have four sides...
Startling and not well received by international colleagues.
“This narrative review is problematic for several reasons and makes extraordinary claims that are not borne out by the data."
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Tobacco Control Groups are Misleading Legislators in Their Efforts to Block Smokers from Access to Life-Saving Products
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Goldman Sachs say 2026 more Americans use safer, smoke-free nicotine products than smoke deadly cigarettes! Isn’t that something to be celebrated? @drbfreeman.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @theracp.bsky.social
Writing exclusively for Crikey today, Rick Morton tears into the NACC's long-awaited robodebt report that exonerated Scott Morrison and Kathryn Campbell.
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The world has built its energy system around oil. Now imagine something different.
Sunlight travels 93 million miles at the speed of light to reach Earth — never passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Energy from the sky doesn’t need an army to protect it. #Bettrification
The NACC continues to be a joke
Nothing but a hit job on Rohan Pike, who is knowledgeable and right about it all. Melissa Davey's reputation as an objective reporter on these issues was shot a long time ago. What's more important Mike, is asking consumers why we do what we do - that's where the truth is, if it was wanted.
FDA Commissioner Makary telling the truth: FDA-authorized nicotine vapes are "less dangerous than combustible cigarettes." It is remarkable how many people don't know or want to accept this fact.
Unfortunately, most people who smoke in both Great Britain and the United States now believe, incorrectly, that nicotine vapes are as harmful as, or more harmful than, traditional cigarettes.
The question is: Who misinformed them and why have they done that.
“I am driven by deep despair and intense frustration that the opportunity to avoid millions of premature deaths and tens of millions of years of human suffering is being squandered by a kind of purity cult."
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social interviews leading tobacco harm reduction advocate Clive Bates:
Hope this proposed new Australian gold mine in Otago NZ gets stopped. Please watch this video @greencate.bsky.social @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social @paulbongiorno.bsky.social
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Cristopher Snowdon smashes Australia’s Tobacco Taliban:
“The black market in cigarettes is now so normal in Australia that little old ladies are not just buying them but are happy to have their name and photo published in the New York Times”
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Always enjoy being told that the private sector is a more efficient and productive way to deliver public services
An Open Letter to Tobacco Control Academics: When Will You Look Abroad?
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“Dad, that light says ‘check engine’.”
“Uh-Oh. Tape must’ve fallen off.”
How Australia’s tobacco control deals with appalling consequences of failed sky high cigarette excise & super restrictive vape policy @algore09algor.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
Stop the scaremongering. 🛑 France’s ANSES confirms: No smoke = far fewer toxins. With an 80-100% reduction in harmful compounds & zero tumours identified in users, the data is clear: Vaping is a life-saving exit ramp from cigarettes. #PublicHealth #Vaping #FactCheck clearingtheair.eu/post/french-...
Aussie Al Gore is one of the most elloquent writers out there on the subject of nicotine #HarmReduction. A super-controversial topic. The WHO literally calls it an "evil industry plot." 140 million adult ex-smokers worldwide disagree.
ICE vs. NSW Police. Spot the difference.
Exactly right! Highly recommend reading this commentary & other pieces by Gor. Raises question whether this dishonesty by tobacco control vaping opponents is accidental or intentional? Getting harder & harder to believe it’s accidental @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
