Tag: Australia
Australia Insists on Opting for Nicotine Prohibition, Despite Failing Miserably
Recent stats from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that nicotine use skyrocketed by nearly 40% from 2017 to 2025, despite the country...
Enforcement Won’t Fix It: Australia Needs to Tackle the Root Cause...
The experiment that is tobacco control in Australia has crashed into a wall of harsh realities, and the consequences can no longer be hidden...
A Crisis Predicted: Australia Remains Resolved on Defying Its Own Nicotine...
While Australia’s black market for tobacco has exploded into a multibillion-dollar crisis, policymakers have been misguidedly focusing on regulating non-combustible nicotine products. In fact,...
Stalled Smoking Rates, Thriving Crime: The Reality of Australia’s “Exemplary” Tobacco...
Australia is often portrayed—by its own institutions most of all—as a global tobacco control success story. Officials point to falling daily smoking rates, decades...
From Regulation to Ruin: How Australia’s War on Nicotine Is Feeding...
Australia’s growing illicit tobacco crisis is no longer a fringe issue—it is a stark illustration of what happens when tobacco control relies on prohibition...
The Cost of Prohibition: Tobacco and Vape Crackdowns Are Fueling Black...
Public health policy is often guided by good intentions, but history has repeatedly shown that intentions are not enough to guarantee success. Overly harsh...
Vanished Report: Australia’s Smoking Reversal and the Quiet Cover-Up
Overall adult smoking also ticked up—from 7.9% to 8.3%—marking the first national increase in over a decade. These findings directly contradicted the federal government’s...
Tax, Ban, or Reform? Australia’s Tobacco Policy at a Tipping Point
Australia’s tobacco control policies have long been hailed as among the world’s hashest. Through plain packaging, high excise taxes, public education campaigns, and strict...
