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Influencers could play an important role in encouraging teenagers not to vape.
Times have changed. While in decades past we watched anti-smoking campaigns on TV, we now need anti-vaping messages on TikTok.
Nicotine pouches are placed between the lip and gum, and users absorb the nicotine in their mouths. Although these products don’t contain tobacco, this doesn’t mean they’re safe.
Spice has been nicknamed the ‘zombie drug’ due to the debilitating effects it can cause.
Some 17,000 people told us exactly how much they drank, smoked and used illicit drugs. Here’s a unique snapshot of Australians’ vices.
If the scheme isn’t successful, some people may continue using illicit vapes, or to switch to traditional cigarettes.
Vapes will be harder to access from today, but the restrictions are staged, with some due to roll out later in the year. Here’s what’s changing.
With 5 million vapers in the UK and rising fast, nearly 500 of these devices are being thrown away every minute.
Small changes, big savings.
Teens who quit vaping or drastically cut back are likely to experience withdrawal symptoms. Here’s how to support young adults through withdrawal and quitting.
Clinical trials have demonstrated the health benefits of cannabis for certain conditions, but many aren’t testing smoked or vaped forms. Research on cannabis smoke is raising concerns.
It’s not just the ingredients we should be concerned about. The devices themselves release chemicals that end up in our blood and urine.
South Africa’s vaping tax is not well-targeted to reduce consumption of vaping products by the youth.
The success of anti-smoking campaigns has come with growing stigma around lung cancer. Over one quarter of Australians admit they have less sympathy for lung cancer sufferers.
Social media platforms have policies prohibiting the promotion of tobacco products, including vaping. But these policies are routinely violated, with little or no consequences.
Many people who vape saying they are trying to quit or to cut down on cigarettes.
Most of our respondents said the main factor driving their vaping was flavouring and taste.
The industry and its allies have been so effective at publicising this unscientific guesstimate, it continues to be used to undermine Australia’s public health policy.
A growing body of evidence shows vaping is not without harms.
Top contributors
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, University at Buffalo
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Research Affiliate, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Academic and Director Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Professor of Chemistry, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont
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Associate Professor and Head of Respiratory Environmental Health, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, University of East Anglia