How much longer can Simon Chapman, Becky Freeman, Mike Daube, Emily Banks & Terry Slevin keep denying what has now become self evident? Australia’s sky high cigarette excise and extremist anti vape policies they vigorously advocated for years have had catastrophic unintended consequences including: soaring & now violent black market for cigarettes, tobacco & vapes; $A77 billion shortfall in government revenue from cigarette excise/5 years; possibly increasing smoking rates; rampant extortion & arson of retailers; increased government spending on law enforcement to reduce black market! New drug harm reduction interventions are usually vigorously opposed just like safer, smoke-free nicotine products are being resisted. But they are generally accepted eventually and evaluation shows that they are effective, safe and cost effective. These nicotine products are disruptive innovations which are also generally accepted and replace obsolete products. Per capita cigarette consumption in US peaked in 1963 and has been declining ~2% per annum 1963-2010 after which decline accelerated to >5% per annum because increasingly replace by smoke-free nicotine products. Tobacco control is fighting a battle to resist smoke-free nicotine products it is bound to lose. As Alan Gor shows yet again in another great piece. Australia will follow the Philippines, Argentina and now the Republic of South Africa in sensible policy reform.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”
“Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and back towards equity and justice.”
"Australia cannot be described as having a prohibitionist approach because Australians make hundreds of millions of visits to pharmacies every year."
As you point out, this another of Chapman's absurd arguments. A simple question: if pharmacies are so easy and convenient to access, why then is 95% of vapes sold through the black market?
How much longer can Simon Chapman, Becky Freeman, Mike Daube, Emily Banks & Terry Slevin keep denying what has now become self evident? Australia’s sky high cigarette excise and extremist anti vape policies they vigorously advocated for years have had catastrophic unintended consequences including: soaring & now violent black market for cigarettes, tobacco & vapes; $A77 billion shortfall in government revenue from cigarette excise/5 years; possibly increasing smoking rates; rampant extortion & arson of retailers; increased government spending on law enforcement to reduce black market! New drug harm reduction interventions are usually vigorously opposed just like safer, smoke-free nicotine products are being resisted. But they are generally accepted eventually and evaluation shows that they are effective, safe and cost effective. These nicotine products are disruptive innovations which are also generally accepted and replace obsolete products. Per capita cigarette consumption in US peaked in 1963 and has been declining ~2% per annum 1963-2010 after which decline accelerated to >5% per annum because increasingly replace by smoke-free nicotine products. Tobacco control is fighting a battle to resist smoke-free nicotine products it is bound to lose. As Alan Gor shows yet again in another great piece. Australia will follow the Philippines, Argentina and now the Republic of South Africa in sensible policy reform.
MKL Jr:
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”
“Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and back towards equity and justice.”
So profound!!
"Australia cannot be described as having a prohibitionist approach because Australians make hundreds of millions of visits to pharmacies every year."
As you point out, this another of Chapman's absurd arguments. A simple question: if pharmacies are so easy and convenient to access, why then is 95% of vapes sold through the black market?
La la Land 😬
Exactly 💯. Roos got more noodles 🍜 than albo n bumlet. Eyes n ears glued shut