New laws come into effect in Australia today that change the look, ingredients, and packaging of tobacco products. The Australian government passed the package of tobacco laws in late 2023, which ...

Illicit tobacco stores are being refilled more than 10 times a day by organised crime gangs making it difficult for ...

Arresting the man suspected of being the kingpin of Australia’s black market tobacco industry is likely to have little impact ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Tuesday it will ban recreational vaping and tighten other aspects of e-cigarette laws in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a decade to try ...

The Australian government will ban e-cigarettes through a heavy set of controls on imports and packaging to discourage vaping, especially among teens, under its biggest smoking reforms in more than a ...

Australia plans to turn e-cigarettes into prescription drugs and will ban people from buying them without a doctor’s prescription. Vaping retailers publicly vow they will move to the underground. We ...

To help put an end to smoking, Australia is considering a bold new policy that would make cigarettes available by prescription only. The plan is being researched by a new center at the University of ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned about the negative health consequences of e-cigarettes and the possibility that tobacco consumption is renormalized through public exposure to vaping. As ...