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• Peak Australian GP body supports vaping 27/01/2020
  IN A MAJOR POLICY SHIFT, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has supported vaping nicotine as an option for some Australian smokers in the latest national smoking cessation guidelines published today. The peak GP organisation has carefully reviewed all the evidence on the effectiveness and safety of vaping and has determined that it is […]
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• How opponents of vaping aid and abet Big Tobacco 21/01/2020
  Many opponents of vaping think it is a big tobacco conspiracy to keep people smoking and hook more kids. The reality is that vaping is a huge and disruptive threat to the tobacco industry. Campaigns against vaping support the cigarette market and are a huge gift to Big Tobacco. First published in Spectator Australia online, […]
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• Queensland Health continues its vendetta against vapers 20/01/2020
  Queensland Health has continued its vindictive and ideological war on vaping by fining a vape shop for breaching advertising and display rules. Vape Central at Capalaba willfully exposed consenting adults to full view of life-threatening cotton wool and tweezers. Specifically, the shop displayed some vaping accessories: drip tips, coils, cotton wool, tweezers and funnels. Drip […]
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• Vaping is 95% safer than smoking. Fact or factoid? 22/12/2019
  It is often said that vaping is 95% safer than smoking. Is this figure just plucked out of the air as some critics claim or is it based on solid scientific evidence? This video and article outline the science that underpins this figure and the leading health organisations that support it. Where did the estimate […]
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• Vitamin E acetate in illicit THC cartridges confirmed as VALI cause, new research 21/12/2019
  New research has established beyond reasonable doubt that Vaping Associated Lung Injury (VALI)  is due to Vitamin E acetate in illegal THC (cannabis) cartridges, and not due to nicotine vaping. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine examined fluid from the lungs of patients with confirmed and probable VALI and compared […]
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