Another Lazy Journalist Addicted To Vaping!-by Pippa StarrOver the last year in particular there has been an explosion of media about vaping. As AMA President, Steve Robson said in yesterday's National Pres Club Address"It's a hot topic!" Print media is going through an uncomfortable transition that common women's magazines went through 20 years ago or so. Women started buying less of the magazines with helpful information and interesting articles as sensational tabloid stories came into favour. Let's face it, most who have seen the cover of a women's magazine cover at the supermarket checkout can only laugh at some of the ridiculous clickbait it displays. Let's take a look at a paragraph from one of the most desperate Australian publications that once the sports scores are published, nearly everything else is opinionated distortion mixed with fairy tales and opinion based pieces.  "Dan, now 19 and at university, recently took up smoking roll-your-own cigarettes to curb his vaping habit. Which is confounding to us non-vapers, but they’re cheaper and less accessible, he says. “It takes me two weeks to get through a $30 pouch because it’s not as convenient. Lots of my friends have started smoking cigarettes to get off vapes.”This was published in the area where one may look for some health improvement information in a sub section called "Body & Soul"Let's assume the statement above about Dan is true. The cheapest pouch of tobacco legally sold in Australia is a 15g pouch that retails for around $30. Current black market price is around $30-35 for a 50g and based on my investigations at street level, talking to people in smokers areas in Brisbane, at least a third or more of uni students who smoke buy illicit tobacco.Sure that is disturbing, but what is more disturbing is that the sensationalist writer for News Ltd outlines the student has switched from vaping to smoking for health gains and further highlights this as if it's a common thing that is happening. Why would someone replace a delicious butterscotch pudding flavour of a vape for the flavour of an incinerator? It's not only rare, it is highly unlikely. The article then uses this antidote to add backbone to the now well debunked "Vaping causes 3x more likely to smoke" factoid. In the best interests of health and transparency,I challenge  &/or Dan or any other anecdotal sources to DM me and prove that not only is "Dan" real, but also declare that you have investigated the best available science. Or Declare a public apology!Because your story definitely comes across as a desperate slam piece rather than a well researched and helpful piece that will improve lives!