Making legal vapes readily available in #NewZealand helped least deprived #smokers the most. Restricting availability of legal #vapes eg Australia hurts low incomes smokers most #auspol

Presenting strong evidence & compelling arguments for safer nicotine products & this is exactly what you get
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Yes safer nicotine products should have had a much easier entry into the world considering they’re replacing something as deadly as cigarettes
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Every now & then WarOnDrugs propagandists add a touch of exaggeration @sanho.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
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1/2 My piece in Pearls & Irritations: #auspol #smoking #vaping
Australia’s tobacco and vaping policies have helped create a vast illicit market while governments continue to pour money into enforcement and neglect cheaper, more effective harm reduction.

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Australian tobacco control policy for smoking/vaping is a form of community self harm just as teens slashing forearms is form of individual self harm @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
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Interesting commentary on ‘behavioural’ taxes (i.e. alcohol, tobacco, mineral oils) & potential conflicts of interests for governments if they come to rely on them for revenue 
nicotinecharts.substack.com/p/what-if-be...

41 years ago visited Czechoslovakia only a few years before communism fell. But 1985 seemed communism would last forever. That experience made me realise many impregnable fortresses soon crumble @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social
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Unfortunately the case against vaping is made up of deliberate dishonesty, dissembling & misinformation. Vaping opponents know if they’re honest they’ll lose every argument
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"It's biggest fraud against Australian people's revenue in living history & that's bit that's getting lost .. We're talking about a legal commodity. Only thing that makes this a crime is government's excise”
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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Public health loses authority when it treats disagreement as a threat rather than a test of its own claims.In nicotine policy, declaring one position beyond challenge can shut out evidence on relative risk, consumer behaviour & unintended effects of restriction

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Australians who use drugs asked how available heroin (prohibited >70 years)? 65% said ‘very easy’, 30% ‘easy’, 5% ‘difficult’, 4% ‘very difficult’. And Qld claims crackdown on illegal cigarettes, tobacco & vapes worked! I call BS @algore09algor.bsky.social
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Generational change also drives nicotine market transformation from combustible cigarettes to safer nicotine products. Young people are early adopters while middle aged & older are late/non-adopters. Former group will replace latter group. @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

#CancerCouncil rejoices as Big Tobacco increases sales of cancer sticks in Qld! #smoking #cigarettes #TobaccoControl @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social
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@caphra.bsky.social asks why WHO overlooks tobacco-control success? New Zealand ⬇️smoking faster any other Western Pacific country according to WHO's own figures. Tobacco Control discussion at next WPRO meeting in Manila doesn't acknowledge or examine how been achieved

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“While legal tobacco packets start about $40, illegal tobacco can be as little as $10. It is estimated the trade, worth more than $8.5 billion nationwide, has put a $42 billion black hole in the federal budget” @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social #auspol

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Gates Foundation adds new science based ways to shrink global malaria but also supports voodoo based opposition to safer nicotine products which accelerate decline in smoking
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