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Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Pfizer Inc and board member of PhRMA, has long-standing links with US President Donald Trump.

Big pharma’s ill will

Trump’s move on the PBS has shown that the US alliance is over. We are now on our own.

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Luxury cars, cigarettes and beer purchases are helping to prop up the budget.

Sin taxes prop up the budget, but the most important one is fading

From fuel to fancy cars and a cold one at the pub, there are some vices – and necessities – that are carrying an extra cost.

  • Millie Muroi
Illegal cigarettes on the black market are on the rise

Legal cigarette sales have plummeted and that’s all good, right? Wrong

The tobacco black market is thriving and, as senior economics correspondent Shane Wright tells The Morning Edition podcast, that’s creating problems for all Australians.

The budget bottom line has suffered a $31 billion hit from over-estimates of tobacco excise.

Vaping and black market tobacco burn $31 billion hole in budget revenue

Alcohol levies are raising more money for the budget than cigarettes as documents reveal Treasury was unprepared for the financial fallout from vaping and black market tobacco.

  • Shane Wright
The nicotine pouches are placed between the lip and the gums.

‘They’re guinea pigs’: The new nicotine fad targeting teens

Encouraged by social media influencers, more young Australians are taking up an illegal, unregulated nicotine product being marketed as a “healthier option” to vapes.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Vape shops have proliferated despite government crackdowns on the importation and sale of vaping products.

Our vaping delusions have gone up in smoke. The Kiwis have a better idea

New Zealand embraces vaping nicotine as a harm-reduction tool while Australia persists with a flawed prohibition model.

  • Dr Colin Mendelsohn
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Vapes are an increasing source of litter.

‘New problem child of waste’: The hazard increasingly littering Melbourne’s streets

Discarded vapes make up a growing part of the mess as e-waste moves into the top 10 types of litter found in Victoria for the first time. 

  • Cara Waters
The Victorian government is backing anti-vaping classes for children as young as 10 in the state’s schools.

Victorian 10-year-olds to learn how to escape the vapes

Quit campaigners are moving to stay ahead of the vape industry’s youth-targeted marketing machine.

  • Noel Towell
Shops selling nicotine vapes illegally could face bigger fines under a state government crackdown.

Profits from illegal vape sales to go up in smoke under Qld crackdown

The state government hopes to disrupt the booming market in illegal vapes by imposing greater fines on retailers.

  • (A)manda Parkinson
Inside the firebombed Fortitude Valley business. still smelling of burnt plastic on Friday afternoon.

‘A growing issue’: Police work to stamp out Brisbane’s tobacco turf war

“One thing we don’t want to do is jeopardise the safety of innocent Queenslanders,” Police Minister Dan Purdie said.

  • William Davis

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