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Why you should Stop Smoking and Start Vaping
Posted on December 10, 2021
Vaping is Australia’s most popular and most effective quitting aid for smokers. However, there is so much conflicting information. Is it safer than smoking? What is popcorn lung? How harmful is nicotine?… Read more -
The Journey After October 1
Posted on May 28, 2021
From October 1, 2021, nicotine liquid for vaping will be officially ‘schedule 4 prescription only medicine’. How does that affect you if you are vaper in Australia? Well, in short, you are… Read more -
A new year’s resolution for Australia
Posted on January 22, 2021
Quitting cigarettes is one of the most popular resolutions for the new year. But an overwhelming majority of Australia’s 3 million smokers will still be smoking by year’s end without the aid… Read more -
WA People support legalising vaping
Posted on November 30, 2020
In this modern age, petitions which legally require people to sign a piece of paper seem archaic. They are also difficult to organise. Yet today I was proud to hand over to… Read more -
Claim that vaping lacks evidence for quitting is misleading and wrong
Posted on November 9, 2020
IN A SUBMISSION to the Senate Inquiry into Tobacco Harm Reduction, Professor Emily Banks claims that there is insufficient evidence that e-cigarettes are an effective aid for quitting smoking. ATHRA believes her… Read more -
Vaping numbers soar as Australia falls further behind the pack, Report
Posted on November 4, 2020
BURNING ISSUES, the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report published today provides the latest information on safer nicotine products and their public health potential. It is also very critical of Australian… Read more -
Michael Johnsen MP's campaign to make nicotine vaping liquid a consumer product in NSW
Posted on November 1, 2020
MICHAEL JOHNSEN, Member for the Upper Hunter in the NSW Parliament is putting public health ahead of politics and is campaigning to make nicotine for vaping available as a consumer product in… Read more -
Introducing ATHRA's FAQs. How to fact check spurious claims on vaping
Posted on October 28, 2020
TO ADDRESS THE RAMPANT MISINFORMATION about vaping nicotine, ATHRA has prepared an evidence-based up-to-date FAQ with an Australian focus, available here. This can be used to fact check spurious claims as they… Read more -
Senior health officials misinformed about vaping at the Senate Estimates Hearing
Posted on October 27, 2020
The TGA’s Professor John Skerritt and Professor Brendan Murphy, Secretary of the Department of Health were questioned on vaping at the Senate Estimates hearing on 27 October 2020. Some of their replies… Read more -
Cancer Council Australia and Heart Foundation misinformed on vaping
Posted on October 26, 2020
CANCER COUNCIL AUSTRALIA and the Heart Foundation circulated a ‘fact sheet’ on vaping nicotine last week to federal Members of Parliament. Unfortunately, this document contains a number of significant factual errors and… Read more -
Nicotine e-liquids require urgent regulation in Australia
Posted on October 20, 2020
THERE ARE NO MANDATORY safety or quality standards for nicotine liquids in Australia as there are for all other consumer and medical products. This leaves users at risk from unsafe products and… Read more -
An update on the new vaping regulations
Posted on October 9, 2020
THE THERAPEUTIC GOODS ADMINISTRATION held some webinars this week to update stakeholders on the new regulations on vaping and nicotine. The news from Professor Skerritt (pictured) was mixed. The proposed regulations are… Read more -
All vapers should make a submission to the Senate Inquiry. This includes YOU!
Posted on October 9, 2020
ALL VAPERS should make a brief submission to the Senate Inquiry into Tobacco Harm Reduction to ensure that vaping survives in Australia and is readily available for vapers and smokers. Please make… Read more -
Greg Hunt's vaping inquiry is disappointing, misleading and unhelpful
Posted on September 30, 2020
A REPORT ON VAPING commissioned by the Health Minister from the Australian National University has provided the answers that Greg Hunt wanted. However, the results are misleading and biased, omitting important evidence,… Read more -
Government delivers another knockout punch to vapers
Posted on September 23, 2020
THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT has continued its vendetta against Australian smokers by making vaping nicotine even more difficult to access. Under the new interim announcement by the TGA (medicines regulator) today and the… Read more -
Why Greg Hunt's plan to ban nicotine imports and medicalise vaping will not work
Posted on September 18, 2020
GREG HUNT wants to ban nicotine imports and force vapers to go to the doctor for a prescription and then to a pharmacy to purchase nicotine liquid. ATHRA believes nicotine liquid should… Read more -
Lung Foundation Australia continues to mislead the public about vaping
Posted on September 17, 2020
LUNG FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA (LFA) recently released an ‘E-cigarette and vaping fact sheet’ strongly opposed to vaping. However, the document is deliberately misleading and misinformed and is likely to lead to an increase… Read more -
Katter's Australian Party calls for vaping to be legalised in Australia
Posted on September 15, 2020
WITH QUEENSLAND smoking rates being much higher than the national average and about 600,000 Queenslanders smoking daily, a different approach needs to be taken to improve people’s health and alleviate pressure on… Read more -
Help us to help you. Support our campaign to save vaping in Australia
Posted on September 11, 2020
ATHRA HAS LAUNCHED a fundraising campaign to ensure lifesaving vaping products remains accessible to Australian vapers and smokers. Please help us to help you. In 3 months (on 1 January 2021), you will… Read more -
Health Minister misinformed about nicotine poisoning
Posted on September 5, 2020
NICOTINE POISONING did not double in Victoria from 2018 to 2019 as stated by the TGA and Health Minister Greg Hunt. In fact, according to data released under Freedom of Information, there… Read more -
Adelaide GP quit smoking with vaping and wants to help others
Posted on August 26, 2020
KEVIN MURPHY is an Adelaide-based GP who quit smoking with vaping. Now he wants to help others do the same thing. He tells his story here. "I grew up and trained in… Read more -
How Kathryn’s cardiologist saved her life – with vaping!
Posted on August 10, 2020
I AM A 67 year-old retired teacher from Queensland. It was my CARDIOLOGIST who told me to vape nicotine, as it would never harm me. I am alive today because of vaping… Read more -
The fake news of a harmful youth vaping epidemic in Australia
Posted on August 8, 2020
RECENT REPORTS in Australian media have raised fears of a youth vaping epidemic that will “addict a new generation of young people to smoking”. The latest national survey provides some hard evidence… Read more -
New Zealand passes legislation to make vaping widely available
Posted on August 6, 2020
THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT passed groundbreaking legislation yesterday to regulate vaping products, leaving Australia increasingly out of touch with other western countries. According to Associate Health Minister, Jenny Salesa, “The Bill strikes… Read more -
Training now available for Australian GPs on vaping and nicotine prescribing
Posted on August 1, 2020
TRAINING FOR GPs on how to help smoking patients quit by vaping nicotine is now available online from HealthEd, Australia's leading GP education and training organisation. The online podcast available here, by… Read more