Smoking & vaping
‘Dodgy operators’ forced to close as WA ramps up war on black market tobacco
Four more stores across Perth have been handed a 90-day closure notices amid the state’s crackdown on illegal tobacco sales.
- Indigo Lemay-Conway
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- Wellbeing
Forget looksmaxxing. We’ve moved onto deathmaxxing
We’re seeing a resurgence of people doing things that are bad for them. What’s going on?
- Sarah Berry
- Editorial
- Organised crime
Urgent and clear strategy needed to break the wave of criminal attacks in city
These crimes are now so much a part of daily life in Victoria that they seem almost normalised. We can’t afford for that to become the case.
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- Organised crime
Australia has 19 million seized vapes. It costs $13 to destroy just 10
The scale of the illicit vape haul is causing significant and costly problems for law enforcement, including safety issues dealing with the fire-prone devices.
- Chris Vedelago
Up in smoke: Tempers flare over Britain’s hardline tobacco ban
In a move that goes far beyond Australian measures, anyone 17 or under in the UK will be banned from buying cigarettes or vapes for life despite warnings the move will encourage the black market.
- David Crowe
- Analysis
- Science
An Australian study linked vaping to cancer. Then came the international backlash
Australia banned this activity popular among teens. In the UK, in some circumstances, it’s encouraged. What’s going on?
- Angus Dalton
WA still only middle of the ladder when it comes to snuffing out illegal tobacco
The illicit tobacco ladder puts WA in fourth place behind New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland.
- Hamish Hastie
‘It’s dangerous, and that’s the message’: Aussie study finds vaping likely to cause cancer
The first-of-its-kind scientific review contradicts claims vaping is safer than smoking, and highlights the urgency of efforts to stop young people becoming addicted.
- Angus Dalton
Australia’s smoking rates fell for decades. But that’s changed – and here’s why
Early evidence suggests the flood of cheap cigarettes could have pushed Australia’s smoking rates up for the first time since the 1990s.
- Marta Pascual Juanola
Sweeping reforms announced to stamp out WA’s ‘tobacco thugs’
New laws would see the maximum penalty for possession of a large commercial quantity of illicit tobacco and vapes increased to $4.2 million for an individual or $21 million for a company, and 15 years jail.
- Holly Thompson