Tag: Australia
As Australia Insists on Making Vaping Harder Than Smoking—Organised Crime Keeps...
Australia’s tobacco-control model has reached an uncomfortable turning point. Daily smoking has (allegedly) fallen to a record low, yet the country’s legal nicotine market...
Australia’s $7 Billion Illicit and Contaminated Nicotine Market That Experts had...
For years, tobacco harm reduction advocates, economists, criminologists and some public health experts warned that Australia’s increasingly restrictive approach to vaping would produce predictable...
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...
