Collaborated with: Edawrd Jegasothy
As seen on our Staying Alive podcast series:
24 March 2025 - analysing the emergence, implications, and challenges of Australia’s de facto war on Nicotine
https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-025-01163-6
"The current state of Australian nicotine control leaves policymakers in a deeply uncomfortable situation. This commentary has outlined how the government’s current approach to restricting the supply of nicotine has facilitated the growth of a dangerous black market. Along with it, this shift brings significant costs including systemic violence, loss of government revenue, and threats to the safety of both consumers and the wider public. These harms are accrued in addition to the opportunity cost of applying a harm reduction approach which has been successfully implemented in other parts of the world. The recent acceleration in the decline in smoking prevalence which has come alongside, and is likely due to, the rise of vaping shows that such an approach is viable. However, the illicit status of these products means that this is an unintended outcome of the failure of the current policies and is accompanied by harms that are not encountered in a context of legal supply."
19 February 2025 - VAADA Conference 2025 Panel Discussion
15 July 2024 - Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into vaping