@jamomartin@Bludn_Gore What a fiasco. Also, the A$345 million spent on illicit tobacco and e-cigarette enforcement surely deserves an ❌
Imagine if that public money had been available to provide Australians with truthful information about risks and switching to low risk alternatives to cigarettes.
@MRobertsQLD The government needs their heads read if they go back to the usual advisers.
The go to advisers have never been held to account, had their "evidence" scrutinised, been interrogated for conflict of interests.
And they have been wrong. Dead wrong.
Australia’s tobacco and nicotine policies are failing on nearly every conceivable front.
❌ Increased smoking
❌ Billions lost in tobacco excise
❌ Widening health inequalities
❌ Record growth in organised crime
We urgently need a new approach.
https://t.co/wMWTXUtdAA
@_DaveCross_ Meh.
He'll just say
1. that big tobacco sponsored the article.
2. I told you vaping leads to smoking.
3. Won't someone think of the children.
4. Genie.
5. Bottle.
6. I told you of this in MY upcoming book.
A former Australian Federal Police detective says:
"Australia had gone from ‘world leading’ to the 'global laughingstock' of tobacco control.
Remember who caused this total failure of policy. It is the same public health advocates that the government looks to for the solution."
https://t.co/UZ0ZHPaKeo
@Vapingit Made a “motzah” in Government grant money to supply the results the Government wanted though.
Who says anti harm reduction opinion can’t be profitable?
Ethics? Pffft!
Professor Becky Freeman’s 2025 attempt to gaslight my Australian friends has aged well.
"Australia is a tobacco control success story"...
"This will also shrink the illicit market"....
https://t.co/JxGVeipqkp
Nothing demonstrates how fluent tobacco control experts are in being arrogantly, confidently, and galactically wrong quite like this.
Reposting this reply simply because @healthgovau thinks that no one should see a link to a National Health Service UK (NHS) webpage, so @healthgovau has decided to hide it.
Several other hidden replies, too.
@John_Hempton The ALP got the ball rolling though.
Roxon, Gillard, Rudd.
Told all and sundry that we are "World leaders".
World leading at obfuscation and wanking, but hey.