The NZ Vaping Alliance provides commentary on e-cigarette use & vaping community issues.
New Zealand
Joined October 2015
- Tweets24.2K
- Following4K
- Followers4.7K
- Likes12K
Pinned Tweet
‘A thriving illicit tobacco market is now operating openly in New Zealand. While agencies debate who is responsible, private investigators have mapped alleged supply networks that continue expanding across the North Island.’ thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361016…
Here's what @PHCCAotearoa don't want you to see...
Customs’ 2026 Annual Report says organised crime groups are targeting New Zealand to grow illicit drug and tobacco markets.
scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2611/S…
The evidence of organised-crime involvement in NZ is growing. The Ministerial Advisory Group on Transnational, Serious and Organised Crime has identified illicit tobacco as one of the profitable markets organised crime groups have moved into.
scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2611/S…
Worries about #vaping in NZ cloud out real issue
'llicit tobacco now accounts for a third of all tobacco consumed in New Zealand, costing the Government $817 million in 2025 alone.
...
scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2611/S…
'New Zealand must act before its growing illicit tobacco market becomes more deeply embedded in organised crime'...
scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2611/S…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Why does a US decision matter here? The FDA weighed the benefits for adults who switch against the risks to youth. CAPHRA says Asia-Pacific regulators should run the same test on their own evidence. #NicotinePouches #HarmReduction #Asia Pacific prlog.org/13180421-us-pouch-…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
A nauseatingly self-satisfied and unbelievably disingenuous apologist for literal prohibition writes. tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/conte…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Here are the studies anti-nicotine zealots ignore, dismiss, and don't want the world to see. The studies that journalists ignore, no matter how many press releases announce them. I keep this list updated. Let me know if I'm missing anything critical.
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Today's tobacco control industry lie comes to you from a Bloomberg-funded NGO in the Philippines: "population-level data do not support the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool"
Cochrane disagrees: cochrane.org/about-us/news/v…
bworldonline.com/opinion/202…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
"We want regulators to assess whether controlled adult access could help people move away from cigarettes, and publish their conclusions." — Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator, CAPHRA #NicotinePouches #HarmReduction #Asia Pacific prlog.org/13180421-us-pouch-…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Watch Michael Ellis breakdown the impacts of illicit markets on global crime and markets. #AFN26 youtu.be/augZntqNOWE?si=ZGrK…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Policy works better when the people it affects help shape it. Collaboration is an integral part of this process. Watch the Collaboration session at #AFN26 discussed how all stakeholders across the THR ecosystem can work together more effectively to advance THR across the region. youtu.be/2faGxHMgtTU?si=a_r8…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Public confidence depends on accurate, balanced health information. This document calls on WHO, the FCTC system and national authorities to assess the full evidence base transparently and communicate differences in product risk without bias. #AFN26 afn.asia/declaration
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
They are safer than cigarettes. And even NEJM now says they are effective for smoking cessation.
But @MikeBloomberg continues to spend more than $100 million per year to demonize them.
“E-cigarettes with no further support were more effective than supportive messaging [in helping people achieve abstinence from smoking]. E-cigarettes with multisession telephone-based support were more effective than e-cigarettes alone.” Learn more: eviden.cc/48hvH0c
ALT A table showing abstinence rates at different time points. The columns consist of "Outcome," "Supportive Messages (N=389)," "EC-Only (N=389)," "EC+ (N=388)," "EC-Only vs. Support Messages," and "EC+ vs. EC-Only." The "Outcome" column contain the subheads "Primary outcome at 6 months" and "Secondary outcomes."
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
#315 Tobacco and Vapes Wars Firebombing 🔥🔥🔥🚒🚨☄️
Now the black market is taking out the legal smokes to tilt the market in their favour!
A legal multimillion dollar Tobacco Warehouse Distro was destroyed in Norwood, Adelaide today!
The Locksmith next door was also destroyed as collateral damage!
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
E-Cigarettes: effective for smoking cessation even without behavioral support
farsalinos.github.io/en/scie…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
How big a problem are illicit tobacco and vapes in 🇦🇺? Really big.
Last year, Australians spent up to $8 billion on illicit nicotine. That's more than on cannabis, cocaine, esctasy and heroin combined.
Find out more in my Ever Wondered video with @Deakin
deakin.edu.au/study-research…
🤖 Made with AI
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
#314 Tobacco and Vapes Wars Firebombing! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚨🤷♀️
Another day…
This one in Vic country town of Cobden.
If there’s one huge banging industry that doesn’t care about the rising cost of petrol (used for arson attacks)
it’s the firebombers! 🤦♀️
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-28/p…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Well, that's inconvenient.
This 2025-26 survey of ~400k Australians shows daily smoking prevalence at 10.1%, almost double the recent semi-official estimate and far better aligned with the Roy Morgan estimate of 12.1% in 2025.
@Bludn_Gore
@jkelovuori
roymorgan.com/findings/9937-…
I'm posting this for Alan Gor.
"The 2026 Index estimates daily smoking among Australians aged 15 and over at 10.1%, compared with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s 5.6% estimate."
09algor.substack.com/p/befor…
Cc @jamomartin @drjoesDIYhealth
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
Did You Know? There is a whole repository of short videos available from the sCOPe Livestream Youtube channel. You can access those here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
NZ Vaping Alliance retweeted
This 👇🏾 would apply to the @WHO @FCTCofficial and a large majority of Tobacco Control academics researching how to convince governments to pass and strengthen prohibitionary laws to stop people using non-tobacco non-combustible nicotine products, and how to further stigmatise and criminalise people who smoke tobacco.
