Simon Chapman AO

Latest report on global tobacco health warnings & packaging. url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_cmnCWLVXk... Highlights

Here's the tobacco industry in 1984 spelling it out. legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fet29d00

Kids' smoking in Oz is at record lows thx to comprehensive tobacco control. But since 2010, the rate of decline has slowed while vaping rose. Explains why all BigTobacco companies have invested in vapes mja.com.au/system/files...

2FIRSTS | South Australia Issues Closure Orders to 100 Stores over Illicit Tobacco and Vapes South Australia has imposed 28-day closure orders on 100 stores caught selling illicit tobacco and vapes since new ministerial powers took effect on 5 June. The State Government has seized about $50 m...

SthAust issues 100 28day closures, 2 permanent + 5 in process for illegal tobacco sales. Qld doing similar, NSW has started. www.2firsts.com/news/souther...

This post by Alex Wodak is disturbingly misleading and mendacious. He has been running this line for at least 5 years, and reprised it this week. A sad decline. See simonchapman6.com/2020/07/30/v...

When you see Dynamic Dan Tehan fronting for the Liberal Party on climate policy, you know that the bottom of the barrell has been scraped and this is what's left.

a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding . ALT: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .

Today's the day historians will record that the LibNats publicly signed their own death warrant when they axe net 50. Pure hubris.

The nicotine lobby's secret expert Greek cardiologist Konstantinos Farsalinos, an influential nicotine researcher, received thousands of euros from the vaping industry via an offshore company, according to documents seen by Le Monde.

Alleged non-disclosure of vape industry funding into offshore company by leading vape positive scientist. I'm shocked. Just shocked. www.lemonde.fr/en/investiga...

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"

Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

"Will you have antibiotics with that?" Tasmanian salmon industry dosing stock. Ermmm ... not for me.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-07/salmon-florfenicol-antibiotics-approved-tasmania/105983426?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

Rumour: Ladbrokes are now shortening the odds for him calling for GST to be removed from cigarettes to make them even more attractive to smokers.

In my post box this morning. The "Unstricted" war & China's real stratergy". Seems like illiteracy & Sinophobia are hand-in-glove. And why's this shite happening in NSW Parliament House?

YouTube video by Toby Toby - OSIC NSW State Finals (Primary School Years 3-4)

Toby Falkner, the new Angus Young, will open the afternoon performances on the @Hearthe cafe stage opposite the railway at 1pm Sat 15 Nov Stanmore Music Festival (Sydney) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIG3... #ACDC
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Australia's illegal tobacco market triggers crime spree Australia faces a booming illegal tobacco market, fueled by high taxes and organized crime, leading to increased violence and arson attacks. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.co...

Deakin Uni academic calls for all tobacco tax to be eliminated to make legal taxed cigarettes competitive w illicit cheap cigs so that the gvt can get back the $7b in lost tobacco tax that ... oh wait ... would now be untaxed under our champ's plan www.straitstimes.com/asia/austral...

If necrotic rock is your thing, this might be something to watch. Don & Phil are both no longer with us.

Lowering tobacco tax to make illegal tobacco sales “disappear overnight”: at last we have a proposed figure and it’s an absolute doozie [updated 9 Aug 2025] Australian smoking rates have never been lower in adults, school kids, low socio-economic groups, and First Nations people.  That’s a good thing, right? These outcomes rep…

Theo Foukkare from the convenience store lobby continues to bang his toy "lower tobacco tax" drum this morning with latest data on illegal tobacco. ALL & more tobacco tax would have to go to compete with $7/pack illicits. simonchapman6.com/2025/08/07/l...

Jesus I see what you've done for others

The Shovel headline: Nationals Commit to Liberals Achieving Net Zero Seats by 2050.

Stellar political commentary from the team at @theshovel.bsky.social. #auspol

The Undisputed World Blowhard Champ bsky.app/profile/cjsn... spent a whole blog eviscerating the above paper thinking it was one published in March. Ermm ... no. snowdon.substack.com/p/australias... And he calls ME geriatric. Can someone get him a bickie & a warm bovril?

Oh dear ... vaping promoters' most sacrosanct theological tenet: that vaping in NZ is driving down youth smoking, just got smashed in a new @thelancet.com paper theconversation.com/vaping-has-s...

Oh no! Socialist New York mayoral candidate Mamdani romping home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GF...

ermmm.. FIT for purpose

Yes. Been noticing a few gone too. The new powers are future for purpose

First stores allegedly selling illegal tobacco shut down in Sydney as officials wield new powers Health minister Ryan Park promises the two closures are ‘just the beginning’ as NSW tries to stem sharp rise in illicit cigarettes and vapes

Armageddon finally decends on NSW illegal tobacco & vape stores. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Trumpian US response to news that many nations have universal health care.

Champ climate change denier on FB today runs "wind energy fails when wind not blowing" canard. My response: so dams useless when it's not raining? His winner? Have I ever seen an empty dam? in a few secs I find the pics below. Crickets ...

E-cigarettes increase harm to smokers, so should not be promoted as a harm reduction strategy (in 10 slides) The tobacco industry has used claims of reduced harm to sell its products since the 1950s with its efforts to promote “safe cigarettes.” “Harm reduction” claims have been central to marketing of e-…

What's the net population health population impact of vapes? @profglantz.com provides 10 slides (+ narrated commentary) to explain it's bad news. profglantz.com/2025/10/31/e...

2FIRSTS | FDA CTP Acting Director Supports Expanding Authorized Flavored E-Cigs and Legal Marketplace At the FDLI Tobacco and Nicotine Policy Conference, FDA CTP Acting Director Bret Koplow spoke in favor of promoting tobacco harm reduction to reduce smoking. He backed a legal marketplace for authoriz...

As countries around the world stampede to ban flavoured vapes, the US FDA under Trump who was bankrolled big time by BigTobacco, installs a yes man to push for the opposite xyfil.com/countries-wi... www.2firsts.com/news/fda-2#g...