"We can and must do better and move on to the combusted tobacco endgame." Well said in this highly intelligent and fair commentary advocating a place for tobacco harm reduction in combating the smoking epidemic and healing the internecine divide. drive.google.com/file/d/1CBmxmT… #ecig

European Commission Targets Vaping in New Smokefree Recommendations The European Commission's new recommendations urge EU member states to treat public vaping the same as smoking and limit it almost exclusively to private residences. ow.ly/jOFh50TpzGa

Very excited to be contributing to this New Approaches Forum Rethinking Tobacco Control & Harm Reduction in New York and during #UNGA week! Open minds, innovative thinkers, focused on humane solutions that work fast & will save 000’s of lives from smoking-related chronic diseases. Fantastic!

This is such a magnificent piece by Jonathan Kirkpatrick that multiple readings are warranted. Whatever you do, please don't miss this one. Cheers.

"Jordan Brielle, 32, had started smoking in her teens, but in 2021 switched to vaping — and was soon spending up to $500 a week to maintain the habit." Was she vaping gold-plated disposables? Or, more likely, was she using drug cartridges bought off the black market?

#twittersupperclub w my kid before he flies back home to Chicago tomorrow

Contrary to popular belief, nicotine itself doesn’t cause cancer or chronic disease. Despite similar nicotine use, Sweden's tobacco-related disease and death rates are much lower than in the EU. Why? Sweden has made smoke free alternatives accessible, acceptable, and affordable.

"I’m not remotely interested in being the fun police or telling people how to live their lives." That is literally what you are doing if you ban smoking outside. The easiest way to not be the fun police is to not be the fun police. newstatesman.com/politics/polit…

3/3 Note on our graph how overall tobacco use had stayed nearly the same between 2015 - 2022, yet cigarette smoking had declined 3.5 points? That strongly suggests that some other type of "tobacco" product took the place of cigarettes. Cigar and smokeless tobacco also remained

Bringing this back from colleagues at Stanford and the Mayo Clinic. Worth a quick read. Highly quotable.

My wildly controversial opinion is that public health agencies should prioritize disseminating information in a way that's easy for "the public" to understand. Like this.

Um I tried making snickerdoodle cookies with the kids Not very successful #twittersupperclub

This is so embarrassing. JD Vance’s staff was desperate for proof of cat-eating migrants. So they sent the Wall Street Journal a report from a MAGA Springfield resident whose cat disappeared & blamed that on Haitians. Her cat, Miss Sassy, was found alive & well—in her house.

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Tahir Turk PhD CochraneTAG Cancer Research UK Policy University of Oxford Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group (OXTAG) CTAG has never been funded by any part of the tobacco or vape industry (as you well know, you cheeky boy). We have a wide portfolio of work looking at pretty much every form of smoking cessation intervention, which you're welcome to review here: cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/reviews/t…

Watching this censorious culture creep from the YA world where it initially took root into literary and mainstream publishing has been so discouraging

The 2023 BRFSS results are out! In 2023, 7.7% of U.S. adults aged 18 years or older were current e-cigarette users. So last year, the same percentage of youth and adults were using e-cigarettes - yet the FDA authorized not a single e-cigarette product.

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Next time someone claims that e-cigarettes are "creating a new generation of nicotine addiction," are a "gateway to using other tobacco products" or are "reversing progress in reducing youth tobacco use," you can just show them this. 👇 #vaping