This audio story won the Best audio story (short form) by an undergraduate or postgraduate student in the 2025 Ossie Awards
The Australian Medical Association has called the rise of vapes a catastrophic health concern. From July this year, a new Australian law mandated "all vapes and vaping products, regardless of whether they contain nicotine or not, can only be sold in a pharmacy". #Newsworthy speaks to public health specialist and vaping advocate Dr Colin Mendelsohn, who has a different, controversial take.
'We know enough to know it's at least much less harmful than smoking and that's all we should need to know to make it legal.'
– Song "Peach Ice" by Big Moist and the Smoking Durries used with permission.
Daniel is a second year LLB and BMedia Student. He's interested in a broad range of topic: law, politics, music, photography, cinema, and matters of public interest. Though generally averse to autobiographical third person writing, he's never been one to let personal taste get in the way of a good story.
