Smoking & vaping
Feel like everyone is smoking on screen again? You’re not alone
From Austin Butler in The Bikeriders to Josh O’Connor in Challengers, cigarettes have been inescapable at the cinema recently. What’s driving the revival?
- by Meg Watson
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Vape ‘reforms’ have a long way to go
Nobody said it would be easy. Vapes and e-cigarettes have hit cities the world over like an unstoppable avalanche.
- The Herald's View
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Vape crackdown in chaos with regulators unprepared, fearing organised crime
Four days into a nationwide ban on the sale of vapes, federal and state authorities are playing the blame game about who should be enforcing the rules.
- by Chris Vedelago
Matt Kean’s appointment puts climate before politics
This is an important appointment by the federal government that will provide an opportunity to help all Australians.
Vapes to be sold behind the counter under watered-down ban
The last-minute changes have provoked the fury of pharmacists, who said they were healthcare professionals and not tobacconists.
- by Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos
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E-cigarette use rising in NSW despite vapers saying they want to quit
The number of people using vapes in NSW increased last year, but survey data suggests more than half are considering quitting in the next six months.
- by Mary Ward
NSW Police seek a new spin doctor after months of chaos
After their last appointment drew controversy, the police are after a new media head to give Karen Webb some tabloid sparkle.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Two minutes with: A Quitline counsellor helping smokers find their ‘aha moment’
Quitline counsellor Ciza Dion says it can be hard talking to clients over the phone, but helping someone to break an addiction makes it all worthwhile.
- by Sue White
Chalmers’ budget is suffering from tobacco withdrawal
Big tobacco excise increases have been used to boost the budget bottom line. But fewer smokers, more vapers and a burgeoning black market are killing the tax cash cow.
- by Shane Wright and Natassia Chrysanthos
Fines and jail time – even Singapore can’t stop people vaping
As Australia debates legislation that would effectively outlaw vaping without a prescription, Singapore is struggling to make its own hardline laws work.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Wealthiest Australians drive surge in illicit drug taking
Marijuana remained Australia’s most popular drug, with about 2.5 million users, while about one million people took the stimulant drug cocaine.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos