Tag: Australia
Some Sense at Last? Coalition Proposes 80% Tobacco Tax Cut and...
Australia’s escalating illicit tobacco crisis has pushed a once politically unthinkable idea into mainstream debate: what if extremely high cigarette taxes and restrictions on...
Australia’s Backwards Nicotine Policy, Part 2: Could Canada’s Tax Strategy Offer...
Australia’s tobacco debate is increasingly about more than smoking rates. With illicit cigarettes and vapes capturing a growing share of nicotine consumption, policymakers face...
Australia’s Backwards Nicotine Policy Leaves Cigarettes Legal and Safer Alternatives Restricted
Australia has created one of the strangest nicotine markets in the developed world. Combustible cigarettes—the product responsible for the overwhelming majority of tobacco-related disease—remain...
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,...
