Banning vaping is the most pig-ignorant, counter-productive policy in the world of vacuous policies by this failed government. The number of smokers it's helped quit around the world is totally unprecedented.

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SLOW DOWN ALAN THIS IS MADNESS"

What a fiasco. Also, the A$345 million spent on illicit tobacco and e-cigarette enforcement surely deserves an ❌ Imagine if that public money had been available to provide Australians with truthful information about risks and switching to low risk alternatives to cigarettes.

Australia’s tobacco and nicotine policies are failing on nearly every conceivable front. ❌ Increased smoking ❌ Billions lost in tobacco excise ❌ Widening health inequalities ❌ Record growth in organised crime We urgently need a new approach. youtu.be/CMqbv8mhvBg

A former Australian Federal Police detective says: "Australia had gone from ‘world leading’ to the 'global laughingstock' of tobacco control. Remember who caused this total failure of policy. It is the same public health advocates that the government looks to for the solution." skynews.com.au/australia-new…

Made a “motzah” in Government grant money to supply the results the Government wanted though. Who says anti harm reduction opinion can’t be profitable? Ethics? Pffft!

Professor Becky Freeman’s 2025 attempt to gaslight my Australian friends has aged well. "Australia is a tobacco control success story"... "This will also shrink the illicit market".... sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n… Nothing demonstrates how fluent tobacco control experts are in being arrogantly, confidently, and galactically wrong quite like this.

Reposting this reply simply because @healthgovau thinks that no one should see a link to a National Health Service UK (NHS) webpage, so @healthgovau has decided to hide it. Several other hidden replies, too.

This is accurate and it is an astonishing policy failure. Canberra has sucked its thumb and burnt on this. It is a bipartisan failure.

Australia has blown it. Link below.

Really? Well f*ck me sideways. It was never ‘world-leading’ @SkyNewsAust - Australia has demonised life saving tobacco harm reduction alternatives ie: vaping & imposed draconian taxation on cigarettes. Prohibition never works. EVER! cc: @INNCOorg

Whoa. According to newly released figures from the ABS, in Dec 2025 a staggering 80% of tobacco sold in Australia was illicit! Perhaps it's time to listen to someone other than the tobacco control prohibitionists who got us into this mess? #auspol abs.gov.au/articles/househol…

"Eight Bloomberg anti-nicotine groups have essentially taken over the WHO tobacco control unit via its backroom operations of the WHO’s MPOWER programme. The WHO is unable to speak out as, practically bankrupt, they would have no tobacco control programme without Mike Bloomberg."

Why have I been getting so involved in the tobacco harm reduction debate? Have I given up on glyphosate, chemicals and plastics? Far from it. My latest piece shows how these issues are about the same things: zealots, poor science and bad risk management. risk-monger.com/2026/06/02/f…

The WHO graphic states nicotine’s addictive potential “is comparable to those of opioids LIKE HEROIN.” That comparison is not precise science. Nicotine acts on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as a stimulant, reinforcing dopamine release without strong sedation or respiratory depression. Heroin is a full opioid agonist that produces intense euphoria, profound sedation, rapid tolerance, severe physical dependence, and high overdose mortality. Nicotine withdrawal involves irritability and cravings but is rarely life-threatening. Heroin withdrawal is intensely uncomfortable and medically managed in severe cases. Most tobacco harm comes from combustion byproducts (tar, carbon monoxide, carcinogens), not nicotine. Nicotine replacement therapies and non-combustible products carry substantially lower risk profiles. Lumping mechanisms and risk levels this way oversimplifies pharmacology and public health distinctions.

"You've gotta be farking kidding me" - when government pays for it. Let's have a look at what Victorians got for their $70,000.

Like everything from WHO, that is an idiotic and misleading presentation of vaping. Seven things you ought to know: 1. Worldwide, there are vastly more adults than youth who vape. Your data is profoundly misleading. 2. Many of the young people who take up vaping would otherwise have smoked. So for them, it’s a huge health win. The use of nicotine is migrating to safer products. You ignore this. 3. People will continue to use nicotine whether you approve or not. Once you can find the humility to accept that, the challenge is how to make it acceptably safe and lawful. You don’t understand this basic point. 4. Most of WHO’s prohibitionist policy proposals lead straight to illicit trade and nurture exploitative organised criminal networks. You ignore the evidence: 75% of vape sales worldwide are now illicit. Your big idea is to extend this criminal windfall to pouches. 5. Young people are drawn into criminal networks as suppliers and are exposed to other illegal goods and services, and are introduced to criminality. WHO is the vector of criminalisation and youth exploitation in this marketplace. 6. WHO continues to be captured by narrow interest groups and billionaire foundations, while showing idle contempt for the health of over 1 billion people at serious risk from smoking related disease. You are smug and righteous but wrong about everything. 7. WHO and the people you have copied on your facile misinformation post ought to be ashamed of their role as defenders of the cigarette trade and promoters of organised crime. It’s no wonder the organisation is in terminal decline. You have done this.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car