Australia’s tobacco tax policy is built around a simple idea: make cigarettes expensive enough and more people will stop smoking.

Arson attacks related to illegal tobacco trade are also causing revenue and reputation problems for neighbouring businesses

A decade ago, illegal cigarettes made up about 10 per cent of sales in Australia. Now it's 80 per cent, so how did we get here?

The United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are not merely interpreting evidence differently. They are answering different moral questions about commerce, autonomy and acceptable risk

Senator Dorinda Cox and the Government Senators had an extraordinary body of evidence placed before them during the Senate inquiry into Australia’s illegal tobacco crisis.

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It's easy to feel that competing against the misinformation juggernaut is futile. Yet certain reflections fill me with hope.

The American Lung Association and its tobacco-control allies confuse and mislead

Mary Aldred is speaking at the National Press Club today alongside Rohan Pike and Dr Nick Coatsworth.

The data that exposes the lie of Australia’s smoking crisis.

For more than a decade, Australian politicians, health departments and tobacco control organisations have presented New Zealand as a close policy cousin.

Is public health losing its way? In his 13th presentation at the Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN), Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos delivers a powerful address on the "ideological war" surrounding tobacco ha...

And an insight into peer review

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The experimental estimates are based on "nicotine metabolite concentrations" detected in wastewater samples, combined with data showing a collapse in spending on legal cigarettes and vapes.

The latest Generation Vape report was clearly intended to function as another warning about illicit tobacco use among young Australians.

Dr Nick Coatsworth is preparing to call the flourishing illegal tobacco market a “whole-of-government policy failure” at a Senate inquiry into Australia’s tobacco crisis.

Every year on 31 May, the global public health establishment gathers for one of its most self-congratulatory rituals.

Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only all...

While the rest of us count the cost in higher fuel costs, higher inflation and a weaker economy,  China — the actual winner of the war — will be enjoying a surge of global interest in its solar panels...

Public health advocate Clive Bates, founder of the influential blog The Counterfactual, joins Clearing the Air's Peter Beckett for a candid discussion on the current battles in the world of tobacco…

What stands out from the recent submissions to Australia’s illicit tobacco inquiry isn’t diversity of thinking.

Last night I testified at a hearing of the Rhode Island Senate Finance Committee on a bill (S2844) that would allow the sale of flavored e-...