Dr Beaumont is an Australian general practitioner. She founded the Australian ‘SmokerHealth’ national telehealth clinic (formerly MedicalNicotine) for vape prescriptions - a policy unique to Australia. Lung cancer and cardiac disease testing is also provided, for early diagnosis of the main diseases that kill smokers. Carolyn combines this with locum GP work in remote Australian communities, and understands firsthand the complex healthcare barriers that
smokers from these regions face. In Australia’s generally negative stance towards vaping, Carolyn plays an important role in THR. She is well known for her media engagement, presentations, publications and conference involvement. She is writing her first book titled ‘Unfiltered’, a collection of interviews with doctors from fields such as cardiology, vascular surgery, anaesthesia, neurosurgery and oncology. ‘Unfiltered’ aims to provide a compelling narrative across medical specialties, which focuses squarely on the harms caused by smoking and not by nicotine itself.
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GFN.TV Interviews #85 | PROHIBITION BY PROXY | How Australia Blocks Safer Nicotine
3 Apr 2026
Australia’s vape crackdown was supposed to curb youth use—but in practice, it has created prohibition by proxy. While still legal, access to nicotine vapes is tightly controlled and choice is so severely limited that over 90% of all vapes in Australia are purchased on the black market.
In this episode of GFN Interviews, Australian GP Dr. Carolyn Beaumont examines how this system frustrates access to safer nicotine—from restrictive product approvals to medical guidelines that offer little real support for harm reduction.
Featuring:
DR. CAROLYN BEAUMONT, MD
Australian General Practitioner/Family Physician