Category: Vaping
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Tobacco is a dying business in Australia
Malcolm Baalman AIHW reports that daily smoking has fallen to 5.6% in Australia This is a really, really good outcome. Australians have done well – very well – at kicking tobacco usage. Every three years there is a major national report on smoking rates, and today it shows that the…
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“Radical, or plain common sense?” Public health’s perennial question
Terry Slevin I was recently invited by ABC Radio Adelaide to talk about our policy asks ahead of the March 2026 state election. The invitation followed the release of our association’s South Australian Branch election platform on 13 February. The host of the Mornings programme, Rory McLaren, opened with a…
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Eight ANZJPH articles that made headlines in 2025
Hollie Harwood Each year over 1.1 million readers visit and download articles from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH). While our journal citations measure impact, they don’t capture one of ANZJPH’s unique strengths – the way that our evidence-based articles influence policy and practice, support advocacy,…
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Playing the long game: 40 years of Quit
Thomas Kehoe Australia is lauded for its leadership in the global fight against tobacco. This is exemplified in passing new tobacco control interventions to tackle tobacco induced disease, which began on 1 July. Measures include graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and sticks, and a ban on menthol and other…
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Explainer: tobacco excise and illicit markets
Malcolm Baalman The tobacco retail industry is running a targeted campaign to persuade the federal government to freeze or reverse the level of taxation on tobacco products. Industry voices argue that Australian tobacco taxation is high by international standards, and that the decade of steady increases has boosted the illicit…
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Vaping regulation: what just happened?
Malcolm Baalman, PHAA This week Parliament finally concluded its approval of the “Vaping Reforms” package of amendments to the Therapeutic Goods Act. The Bill is the final component of several months of moves to settle Australia’s ‘world-leading’ model of control of e-cigarette supply into our community. Many elements of the…
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Comprehensive vaping reforms needed to protect kids
Dr Matthew Tuson and Angela Gazey “Brick and mortar” vape stores have proliferated across Australia in recent years. One only needs to search ‘vape stores’ on Google Maps to see their ubiquitous presence. Our recent research, published in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH), identified almost…
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First phase of measures against vaping to combat growing harms
Associate Professor Michelle Jongenelis Disposable vapes are the brightly coloured plastic devices you’re seeing kids and young adults puffing on pretty much everywhere. They are also the devices you’re accidentally stepping on when walking along the footpath. While we were busy figuring out how to survive COVID-19, disposable vapes hit…