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Raising cigarette taxes and tobacco wars have created a ‘serious’ budget problem. What can Labor do about it?

Growing illicit tobacco trade is undercutting the legal market, leaving government coffers short of funds to pay for major policies

The Guardian - AU

University of Sydney has invested in world’s biggest poker machine maker and global betting giant

Experts say ‘disappointing’ relationships with gambling industry, including funding for research, should be scrutinised

The Guardian - AU

Australian politician’s speech at tobacco conference in September allegedly in breach of WHO treaty

Exclusive: Discussion on panel came as federal government was developing reforms to address high rates of youth nicotine addiction

The Guardian - AU

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Philip Morris making deals with Australian pharmacies to supply below-cost vaping products

VEEV nicotine pods and devices offered at an 80% margin on the condition pharmacies sign supply deal with the tobacco giant

The Guardian - AU

What does vaping do to your body and why is it being banned in Australia?

Vapes with nicotine were first banned in 2021 but now the federal government is getting serious about border control laws allowing the import of devices.

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Tobacco-linked organisations and executives fail to declare interests to TGA vaping inquiry

Known links to tobacco multinationals and vaping lobby groups omitted in submissions to federal government consultation on reform

The Guardian - AU

Facebook ads opposing a ban on vaping in Australia failed to disclose tobacco company backing

Meta says it removed ads for failing to state they were sponsored by an initiative of British American Tobacco Australia

The Guardian - AU

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NSW parents report alarming rise of e-cigarette poisoning in young children

A poisons expert says toddlers are stumbling upon e-cigarettes and putting them in their mouths, "as children do".

ABC News

‘Lives are at stake’: Australia returns to the nicotine frontline with vaping reform

A decade since world-first plain packaging reforms, there is a new threat: the alarming rate of children using e-cigarettes

The Guardian - AU

Is vaping a safer alternative to smoking? We just don't know yet

Studies show that people who vape are more likely to progress to smoking tobacco products.

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