Vaping is not risk-free, but most scientists agree that it is far safer than smoking. According to the UK Royal College of Physicians report in 2016: ‘the hazard to health arising from long-term vapour inhalation from the e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco’ There is still some …

Cigarette Smoke: To date, 7,000 chemical compounds have been identified in cigarette smoke, including about 250 harmful and 69 carcinogenic chemicals.

Recently there has been debate regarding the regulation of nicotine e-cigarettes, or vapes, following the announcement of regulatory changes to the sale and use of nicotine containing vapes/e-cigarettes.

Quitting smoking is tough. Create a plan that works for you to help you get smoke free.

How well does vaping work to help smokers quit? This was one of the topics hotly debated (at length) at the recent Tobacco Harm Reduction Senate Inquiry. For anyone who tuned in online to the Senate Inquiry (we don’t blame you if you didn’t!), it may have been quite confusing to interpret, with conflicting opinions …

Australia is world famous for its unique beaches and animals that inhabit the country, but it has some very unique vaping and tobacco laws too!

Australia has unique nicotine vaping laws that you need to be aware of if you are considering using e-cigarettes or vapes as an alternative to smoking cigarettes. There are an estimated 500,000 vapers in Australia, many of whom are unaware of these laws.  While in most countries nicotine e-cigarettes are regulated as consumer products, in …

Are nicotine and tobacco the same thing? Tobacco is the common name for the herb Nicotiana tabacum. The tobacco plant makes the poisonous chemical nicotine as a natural defence mechanism to stop insects from eating it. Nicotine also exhibits dose-dependent effects on humans and other animals. Tobacco has been used in the early Americas for …

Since October 2021 Australia has introduced some of the tightest rules around vaping in the world. These focus on vaping products only being available to people with a genuine desire to stop smoking, and not for recreational use. At the heart of the rules is the need for a prescription from a clinician to legally …