What is ATHRA?

Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association (ATHRA) is a registered health promotion charity established to reduce the harm from tobacco smoking in Australia. ATHRA’s aim is to provide smokers and health professionals with evidence-based information on safer alternatives to smoking. ATHRA’s broader goal is to encourage the complete cessation of tobacco smoking in Australia.

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Senate Inquiry Report

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Rachael's story. How a former nurse quit with vaping (6min 30sec)

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Blog Posts

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…