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Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Malaria control health interventions are to control the vector (mosquitoes): Reduce standing water; insecticides; insecticide-impregnated bednets. Plus anti-malarial meds. Tobacco Control interventions are to control PEOPLE: Sin taxes and bans, and misinformation about relative risks.
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Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social When Tobacco Tax Meets the Cost-of-Living Crisis 09algor.substack.com/p/when-tobac...
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When Tobacco Tax Meets the Cost-of-Living Crisis
Australia’s tobacco tax policy is built around a simple idea: make cigarettes expensive enough and more people will stop smoking.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Australia’s unsustainable failed smoking/vaping policy including sky high cigarette excise now resulting in world leading sky high insurance for retailers near tobacconists @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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As tobacconist firebombings intensify in Melbourne, nearby stores are being denied insurance
Arson attacks related to illegal tobacco trade are also causing revenue and reputation problems for neighbouring businesses
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Australian government & health establishment now have 2 options re smoking/vaping policy: eat large shit sandwich now or eat much larger shit sandwich some time in future. Hope they decide wisely @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @news.abc.net.au
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Pity ABC & mainstream Oz media drank tobacco control Kool Aid last decade & uncritically repeated all their talking points while ignoring harm reduction. Vape quasi prohibition is part of problem @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Australia's tobacco tax crushed smoking. Has it gone too far?
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?
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Australia’s sky high cigarette excise & vape quasi prohibition backflips getting closer. Feeble tobacco control no match for tobacco harm reduction arguments in recent Senate report released on a Friday to minimise media coverage @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social
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Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The United States says, “Prove it.” The United Kingdom says: sell it, but control it. New Zealand says: keep it available, but out of sight. Australia says: medicalise it or remove it. @alexwodak.bsky.social 09algor.substack.com/p/four-count...
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Four Countries, Four Nicotine Futures
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
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Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@alexwodak.bsky.social The burden of proof should run in both directions 09algor.substack.com/p/when-evide...
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When Evidence Challenges the Status Quo: Senator Dorinda Cox and Australia’s Tobacco Policy Reckoning
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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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
15 current regulation of vapes has created a significant black market with the large majority of users using illicit products @skipscorner.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @clivebates.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Australia’s failure since 2010 to make harm minimisation front & centre of smoking/vaping policy has been very costly. So, great to see: “Finding 1 That harm minimisation should govern the policy approach to the regulation of nicotine products” files.parliament.nsw.gov.au/fileapi/Parl...
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NSW Legislative Council Report on ‘Illegal Tobacco Trade’ 20 August 2026 Findings 1 harm minimisation should govern the policy approach to the regulation of nicotine products 2 harm minimisation requires a policy approach to nicotine products that recognises the realities of the current market,
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What you reap when you sow sky high cigarette excise archive.is/2026.08.16-0...
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Writing in ‘Filter’, whuch savouries Kiran Sidhu describes how on the outside nothing seems to change in the world of tobacco harm reduction but on the inside lots of positive changes are happening filtermag.org/finding-opti...
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Finding Optimism in the Tobacco Harm Reduction Maelstrom
It's easy to feel that competing against the misinformation juggernaut is futile. Yet certain reflections fill me with hope.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Know what? Millions around world with identical experience. Let your politicians know. Write Letters to Editor of newspapers. Ring talk back radio. Tell social media. @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @skipscorner.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My guess is Emeritus Professor Simon Chapman AO will be hard at work on a blistering response to yesterday’s National Press Club. But they must realise they’ve lost the debate comprehensively
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Watch National Press Club 22 July on tobacco control today. ABC iview. Rohan Pike-law enforcement; Mary Aldred-Liberal MP Monash; Dr Nick Coatsworth-public health. Sky high cig excise & vape neo prohibition get smashed @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“doubt is now being manufactured as a weapon by the tobacco-control movement—.. the very same groups who have for decades campaigned against Big Tobacco. They are now the ones who are confusing & misleading, with potentially tragic consequences for public health” open.substack.com/pub/marcgunt...
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The new merchants of doubt
The American Lung Association and its tobacco-control allies confuse and mislead
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
National Press Club 22 July on tobacco control is now up on ABC iview. Well worth watching
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
@algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @skipscorner.bsky.social @marktyndall.bsky.social @sanho.bsky.social @gfn.events @harmreductionintl.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Congratulations to Mary Aldred, Liberal MP for Monash, on ABC for supporting a reduction in cigarette excise to reduce flood of illegal cigarettes, tobacco & vapes. @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Liberal MP Mary Aldred calls to cut tobacco excise - ABC listen
Mary Aldred is speaking at the National Press Club today alongside Rohan Pike and Dr Nick Coatsworth.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Is it OK when Australian government seemed to press Roy Morgan to withdraw their survey results because they suggested possibly increased smoking rates? And they withdrew for a while? Deserves MSM investigation @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Initial report Australia’s 2025 NDSHS released. Despite rampant retailer extortion & arson, $77 billion loss revenue from cigarette excise/5 years, 6 alleged homicides @drbfreeman.bsky.social says tobacco control working @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/ill...
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Illicit tobacco is booming. But are more Australians really smoking?
The data that exposes the lie of Australia’s smoking crisis.
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bakerbee1.bsky.social @bakerbee1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
+ If I were a smoker these days I'd stick with $12 smokes than jump hurdles to get legal vapes. Maybe I'd try an illegal disposable vape and find them disgusting (flavours too sickly sweet with coolant) and go back to the cheap smokes. Both situations created by policy.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If you or anyone you know is a rank & file member of the Labor Party & going to the conference 23rd-25th July, it's a chance to advocate for reform or repeal of the wrong and comprehensively failed 2024 vaping legislation. Please repost.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tobacco control loves say ‘took 40 years know how risky smoking is so will be another 20 years before we will know how risky vaping is’. But medical research now 1000 times more powerful than was 1950 @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @skipscorner.bsky.social
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Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
While smoking was collapsing, vaping was rising. Daily vaping among adults increased from less than 1% in 2015 to approximately 12% by 2024/25, while among Māori adults, vaping prevalence reached around 28%. @alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...
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The Question Australia Refuses to Ask: Why Is New Zealand Succeeding?
For more than a decade, Australian politicians, health departments and tobacco control organisations have presented New Zealand as a close policy cousin.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
2/2 meaningful reform on the agenda. New Zealand is the public health model as it succeeds everywhere Australia has failed. Smoking rates have declined dramatically, youth smoking is minimal, youth vaping has halved and there is no significant illicit vaping market.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
1/2 The Labor Party Conference runs from 23–25 July. Party members, it’s time to acknowledge that vaping legislation has failed to achieve any of its stated objectives. Adult vapers overwhelmingly reject the therapeutic model. It's time to put
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Quite. And what's next - caffeine? Also a mild, non-intoxicating stimulant that billions (?) enjoy and are dependent on.
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Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Safer nicotine alternatives are an existential threat to the job security and careers of 10,000 US tobacco control professionals and tens of 1,000s worldwide. The AGE OF CIGARETTES is ending due to product substitution. They do not want to admit this even to themselves, much less the public.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thanks Charles. His reputation for that is intact, I'm blocked.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
As a tobacco control advocate, are you not pleased with a 1.1% daily smoking rate among youth and only 2.5% regular smoking? (Regular is defined as daily, weekly or monthly.) Whatever has happened to the trend, surely it's the current situation that matters. Harm reduction is happening.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Public health loses credibility when ideology overcomes evidence, empathy & outcomes. Prof Farsalinos calls for: return to harm reduction: meet people where they are; protect safer options; respect adult autonomy; aim ⬇️smoking-related disease-not punish people use nicotine gfn.tv/vids/a-beaco...
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A beacon of reason in a ideological war | GFN26 Closing remarks by Konstantinos Farsalinos
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...
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Christopher Snowdon shows how vape denialists exploit dodgy science eg recent study by Kim et al, 2026 Nature Medicine: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Made news with alarmist headlines eg, "Swapping cigarettes for vapes does NOT significantly reduce risk of lung cancer" snowdon.substack.com/p/how-vaping...
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How vaping scare stories are made
And an insight into peer review
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ah, the old extend the timeline trick to disguise uncomfortable facts. Doesn't change reality in '25. Youth smoking was very low, vaping had decreased but exceeded smoking, so that any 'gateway effect' had been in the less harmful direction. This is all good news for public health.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The article you've posted is about the illicit tobacco market in NZ. This conversation is about youth vaping. This is a comprehensive report on that from a reliable source. assets.nationbuilder.com/ashnz/pages/...
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The bottom line is that the PHAA isn't interested in harm reduction. The evidence is solid about vaping's effectiveness and significant harm reduction. Nicotine, a mild stimulant, the least harmful ingredient in all tobacco or THR products, is actually the the thing that makes HR possible.
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Dr James Martin @jamomartin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is the most irresponsible coverage of vaping I’ve ever seen on the ABC. Vapes present a far lower risk of cancer than tobacco smoking. This sort of alarmist nonsense will convince people they are better off smoking than switching to a much less harmful alternative. youtu.be/D_B9EcHC4yg
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Vaping myth busting: Vaping causes cancer? [Episode 10]
YouTube video by UEA Addiction Research
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
‘An estimated 80% cigs & vapes consumed in Australia 2025 illegal, according to Bureau of Statistics which analysed "rapid growth" of black market for 1st time’ Thank you Senators Cox, Steele-John for reaching 80% black market in Australia @algore09algor.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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ABS estimates 80pc of tobacco consumed in Australia last year was illegally sourced
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.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Kudos and so much thanks to you, Alex. Hope you get time to enjoy the company of a bunch of like and right-minded people on this issue!
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Giving Michael Russell Oration in few hours at Global Forum Nicotine Warsaw #GFN26 People smoke for the nicotine but they die prematurely from the opposition to tobacco harm reduction. @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There would be a percentage of smokers who aren't happy buying from organised criminals and wouldn't if they could afford to buy legal cigs. (A friend of mine is one.) No telling what percentage but certainly worth a try.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Youth vaping has halved in the last few years in New Zealand where they have an age-restricted retail market and give free vape kits to adults who smoke. No significant illicit vaping market. Oz has it so wrong. To reduce smoking related death and disease, harm reduction products like vaping work.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
WA government wants people unable/unwilling to stop smoking/vaping to buy from illegal trade. Quasi prohibitions or actual thing often lousy policy but great political strategies. Letter to Editor of WA Bugle? Contact MPs? Both? @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Alan Gor makes a powerful case for the intellectual bankruptcy of Australia’s anti-vaping cult. Well worth reading his daily articles @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...
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The Generation Vape Report Accidentally Exposes the Collapse of Australia’s Nicotine Control Model
The latest Generation Vape report was clearly intended to function as another warning about illicit tobacco use among young Australians.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Dr Nick Coatsworth calls for tobacco tax cuts, labelling the emergence of a multibillion-dollar black market controlled by organised crime a “whole-of-government policy failure”. He’s 💯% right! @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/for...
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Former top medical officer calls for cut to tobacco taxes
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.
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Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“beneath the polished messaging lies something increasingly difficult to ignore: tobacco control has become less about helping smokers and more about protecting ideology, institutional authority, and moral identity” @alexwodak.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...
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World No Tobacco Day and the Public Health Industry That Lost the Plot
Every year on 31 May, the global public health establishment gathers for one of its most self-congratulatory rituals.
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pammul.bsky.social @pammul.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Done.
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Vaping tastes good Like a cigarette substitute should @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
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