Do you still trust @RoyMorganAus when it comes to telling the truth about vaping and smoking? @ALIVEadvocacy @LivePippas

Illicit markets thrive under prohibition, but smokers die. Harm reduction saves lives. Asia’s future depends on change. Be part of the dialogue: Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025.#FCTCCOP11, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks https://t.co/jffWwim24a

@Algore09algor @ArielleSelya @BV_dodderer @MarewaGlover There's an update now: https://t.co/zrFY4Lp4Yw

@jkelovuori @BV_dodderer @MarewaGlover Thanks, Jukka! I hadn't seen the new paper yet. The Nov paper has the same methodology and very similar results, just uses a different dataset. "Methods were largely adapted from our previous work.10" where ref 10 is the March paper. I believe my comments still apply.

Illegal tobacco burns $3.3bn hole in Australia’s tax revenue, crime agency says amid debate over cigarette excise

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A new paper from @RogerBate3 argues that global tobacco control now reflects a fusion of moral and commercial interests—a cohort of “Bootlegging Baptists” whose advocacy and funding dominate the policy process.

This survey is for everyone who cares about change! We’re pushing to fix the broken regulations around safer nicotine products — but we can’t do it without your voice. Take the survey and share it far and wide — every response helps shape the future.

In other words, public health and tobacco control became, and still are, so obsessed with fighting far less harmful vaping that they dropped the ball on smoking. 😬 Here, in case of paywall: https://t.co/gpqgrugwxr

100000000% defund the @WHO

Boo hoo, the sooner the WHO run out of funds the better! They have been over run by big philanthropists steering their own big ideologies anyway!

Not only does Australia have to deal with the Health issues regarding Tobacco Smoking, they have also to deal with the Tobacco Criminal Market & Violence. BOTH would not even be an issue if Australia had just: LEGALISED👋 RE-USABLE 👋 #VAPES 👋 https://t.co/2VoDCvKjjo

Simon still thinks higher taxes magically stop the black market. Reality check: every state is drowning in illegal tobacco despite record taxes. Maybe it’s time he stopped blaming everyone else and looked at the failed policy he’s been defending for decades. And still promotes

Exactly!! Perhaps the reason @Mark_Butler_MP doesn’t see it is that he’s too busy parroting the @WHO line and listening to the same “academic advisors” like Becky Freeman, Simon Chapman, et al., who’ve built their careers defending failed prohibition policies. When public health

https://t.co/RPs3bhyUiV This entire report is a damning indictment not of smokers or “criminal gangs” but of Australia’s own failed prohibition policies. When a black market grows from under $1 billion to $4 billion in just three years, that’s not a crime wave appearing out of

How smart is our Australian health minister? He was warned years ago of an inevitable black market in vapes and tobacco unless vapes were sensibly regulated and excise taxes were slowed, yet here we are: “new crime figures show the associated healthcare costs, reduced

Australia's $4 billion illicit tobacco trade has become one of the nation's most violent criminal markets Paging ⁦@wesstreeting⁩

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Meanwhile, Australian tobacco controllers insisting that the sky-high tobacco taxes are just right. 👇

More good news that the @WHO and @FCTCofficial would rather ignore. Smoking prevalence amongst young Danish men has decreased from 15.4% in 2014 to 2.7% in 2025, "partly due to a rise in other nicotine products, such as snus and e-cigarettes."