Ending the tobacco wars

High tobacco taxes helped reduce smoking for decades but now incentivise a massive black market trade with all the gang violence that implies, so is it time to reduce those taxes and relax restrictions on vapes?

Merchants of death

Tobacco companies reap vast profits from selling a product they know will kill or cripple many of their customers, so it’s little surprise they continue to oppose any attempts to reduce the health toll of their poisonous products.

Big tobacco’s big campaign against plain packaging

Australia was the first country in the world to mandate plain tobacco packaging and, despite ongoing litigation, the tobacco industry’s fears that saving lives will cost them money are being realised as other nations follow suit.