The European Union is hostile to innovation. Its embrace of "precaution" is reckless window dressing to conceal its support for incumbents and its capture by Brussels-based interest groups. Its reflex opposition to vaping, snus and tobacco harm reduction is a clear example.

“Integrating tobacco harm reduction into a social work approach to smoking resonates with the aims and motivations of many in the profession.”

Translation: doctors do not have remotely adequate professional standards for critical public health knowledge. Yet, negligent claims by medics and their unions can easily do more harm than any good they might do in the privacy of the consulting room. The BMA Royal College of Physicians

For many decades tobacco control only told truth about smoking while tobacco companies never told truth. Now it’s largely reversed: tobacco control is economical with truth & many major traded tobacco companies are pretty truthful

Really excited to share this great work in Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal led by our⭐️faculty Dr. Tracy Smith Conclusions: "Among current daily cigarette smokers who have previously tried to quit and failed using standard pharmacotherapies, provision of an e-cigarette is a feasible intervention.

The greatest decreases in incidence rates of early-onset cancers occurred in cancers of the respiratory system (APC, −4.57%; 95% CI, −5.30% to −3.83%; P < .001). This is the early effects of reductions in smoking. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Menthol ban defeated by innovation: proposed solution is to ban more and ban harder. But perhaps ask: - why would that work? - what are the likely behavioural responses? - what is this measure supposed to achieve anyway? - could the goals be achieved without coercive measures?

If you define “ultra processed foods” widely enough, they will account for a large share of food supply. But why define them at all? Why not define food by its nutritional character rather than how it is made? Also, there is no such thing as bad foods, only a poor diet.

As activist NGOs have silenced other stakeholders and now dominate policy debates, we need to understand how they operate. The Risk-Monger surveys how much of their behavior resembles spoiled little brats, refusing to compromise or be reasonable. thefirebreak.org/p/spoiled-litt…

"As the RCP has consistently argued since 2007, e-cigarettes are not harmless but from an ethical standpoint the significant issue is that they are demonstrably less harmful than smoked tobacco to user and bystander alike." rcp.ac.uk/media/n5skyz1t…

"Like most people, I’m uncomfortable having to say these three simple words: “I was wrong.” says Cliff Douglas "But six years ago, while serving as the national vice president for tobacco control at the American Cancer Society, I found myself saying just that. I had led an intensive

“All is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds”. Panglossian and frivolous, and before he even has a plan to do what he is already claiming credit for. Prediction: this will age badly.

There is no bottom to this barrel... paying kids to denounce each other.

For those who don't believe that most kids are telling the truth in these anonymous surveys, why would they admit vaping in 2019 but not 2024, and why would they happily admit using marijuana, binge drinking etc every year?

In the US at least 13 times as many adults as youth use disposable vapes. Youth middle and high school- NYTS 870,000: cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… Adults over 21: Altria 11.7 million: altria.com/-/media/Projec… [adults between high school and below 21 not included]