Big Tobacco is spending millions of dollars on a relentless campaign in Australia to get vaping legalised so that these addictive products can be sold from every street corner shop as an ordinary consumer item.
Disturbingly, an epidemic of e-cigarette use by children, teenagers and young adults in Australia has the potential to undermine the past 40 years of successful tobacco control activities.
It is sometimes not obvious that Big Tobacco is orchestrating this campaign behind the scenes by providing money and other forms of support to professional lobbyists and front organisations with clear conflicts of commercial interest.
The accompanying articles describe and reveal the methods being used by Big Tobacco to get vaping across the line and have been published by a variety of respected media platforms:
- The secret money trail behind vaping, Feb 20, 2021
- Australian Retailers Association cancels secret tobacco contract, Feb 20, 2021
- More vaping lobbyists linked to Big Tobacco, Feb 22, 2021
- Metadata reveals medical charity ATHRA received assistance from PR company linked to vaping campaign, Mar 26, 2021
- Still plenty of smoke in the vaping wars, Jun 2, 2021
- Vapers’ facelift: new pitch, same sponsors Jun 28, 2022
- Retail lobby group chief quits but vaping push continues, Jul 15, 2022
- Health Department, TGA launch legal action against online vape store, Jul 27, 2022
- Vaping details? They’re lost in the cloud, Aug 2, 2022
- National Retailers Association chief Dominique Lamb to resign as questions rise over tobacco lobby, Sep 1, 2022
