Does #vaping nicotine harm the lungs in adults who have never smoked?

A review of the evidence so far finds no evidence of harm to lung health in short-medium term studies. However more research is needed in long-term and heavy users

colinmendelsohn.com.au/adult-lungs/

AsthmaFndation

Big Tobacco has a whole new generation hooked on arson.

Fresh - Making Smoking History Sarah Jackson Behavioural Science & Health UCL What about the people who *don't* quit even as prices rise or the cost of living squeezes them? There are many more stayers than quitters. What do we know about the financial pain faced by those who don't quit, who in the household bears it, and what adverse effects it has?

Dr Olivia Doll DCS Public health realists see it differently.

➡️ WHO rhetoric is great for the cigarette trade + criminal networks. Terrible for health and welfare. WHO captured by prohibition zealots and will ultimately fail, following a collapse in trust.

➡️ Tobacco control ≠ Public health

FDA seems proud of cracking down on small businesses for selling low-risk, smoke-free alternatives to cigarettes that are SAVING LIVES. Wonder why the agency doesn't announce that, since it took over tobacco regulation in 2009, it's authorized over 440 DEADLY CIGARETTE PRODUCTS?

📢NEBRASKA Call to Action!📢
While LB 388 didn't advance in the regular session that ended April 18th, it's STILL ALIVE. Governor Jim Pillen is promising a SPECIAL SESSION to address property tax relief, which could include the bill's 20% tax on #vaping products!

casaa.org/call-to-action…

📢VIRGINIA Call to Action📢
⚠️URGENT⚠️ Governor Glenn Youngkin has included a tax hike on nicotine e-liquid in the budget that equates to $11.00 per 100ml bottle. The governor's proposal violates his campaign promise to not raise taxes on hard working Virginians!

casaa.org/call-to-action…

Virginia and Nebraska residents: there are urgent calls to action for tax proposals in your states. Take action now!

I couldn’t be more proud 🥹

This👇 is 💥incredible💥progress

We live in a world in which the largest cigarette company wants to stop selling cigarettes. And public health elites all across the world are trying to stop them!

Would not have predicted this a decade ago.

It's been two weeks since we reached out to NPR’s Brian Mann at his invitation to “keep the critical feedback coming.” Mann’s primary beat is addiction yet he seems uninterested in how NPR has been bungling coverage of tobacco harm reduction.
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twitter.com/VaporAmerican/…

I like this guy's point.

Just saying, there's money to be made in keeping the whole vaping epidemic thing going one.
Just ask Robin Koval and in 2022, she was making $364,654 more than what she was making in 2018.

Alan Beard Marion Burt This one?

Proposed new taxes on nicotine vaping products that increase with nicotine strength may have unintended negative health consequences, according to LSBU's Lynne Dawkins
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lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/…

'Tobacco harm reduction is not yet widely available here. As far as laws go, Rwanda has none specifically regarding nicotine vapes, though regulations do prohibit advertising of heated tobacco products or nicotine replacement therapy.'

By Gabriel Oke:
filtermag.org/rwanda-smoking…

Let me add some quantification for why correcting nicotine risk continuum (NCR) misperceptions is so important.

See excerpt below from a 2019 analysis of PATH data from FDA Tobacco scientists (link in alt text), published in Addiction Journal.

This organization (World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific @WHO) is just a conveyor belt of lies and cigarette-protecting recommendations.

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from ABC News

'the number of nicotine-related calls from South Australians...rose to 78 last year, compared to 53 in 2022.'

'[Parents] were calling because they had noticed that their child had in their hands either a vape device or the vape liquid or a cigarette butt'