Relative Risk Information @alexwodak.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @australia.theguardian.com @melissasweetdr.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...

Enormous & ⬆️⬆️ seizures of illicit drugs intended for Australia! Just imagine quantities getting through! Touching that so many retain faith in drug prohibition & now also vape quasi prohibition @jamomartin.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Another stunning 🧵from @chancethegardener.bsky.social Well worth read whole🧵! Skewers tobacco control misinformation! @sanho.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social

Canada discovered secret how to ⬆️ smoking. Ban vape flavours! Nicotine vape sales ⬇️ by ~ 30% after flavours banned while cigarette sales ⬆️ by nearly 10%! @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social regulatorwatch.com/brent_staffo...

Guardian just forgets to mention that countries where safer, smoke-free options are popular, eg vapes or snus, smoking rates have fallen like a stone eg UK with vapes, Sweden & Norway with snus. Why this bias? @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Switching to nicotine pouches is scientifically similar to quitting altogether. 🚭🧬 A major 2026 review in Internal and Emergency Medicine shows that smokers who switch to pouches see toxic exposure collapse by 42–96%. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/nico...

Becky Freeman and the Policing of the Nicotine Debate @alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...

Melissa Davey doesn’t even try to be subtle. Surprised her Editor tolerates this? Can’t benefit reputation of “The Grauniad”!

The Anatomy of a Smear: When “Transparency” Becomes a Weapon @alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @australia.theguardian.com open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...

If journalism were balanced, it would interrogate arguments not construct suspicion through association. This piece layers affiliations but presents no evidence of wrongdoing. That’s narrative stacking, not investigation. Melissa Davey is practicing reputational insinuation journalism. So typical!!

Q: Why safer, smoke free nicotine products replacing deadly cigarettes in so many countries? A: Strong consumer demand for safer options combined with impressive capability of tobacco companies anxious to avoid bankruptcy if they stick to deadly cigarettes! @algore09algor.bsky.social

@caphra.bsky.social 💯% right condemn @whofctc.bsky.social dismiss tobacco harm reduction as industry propaganda, so rejects vapes, heated tobacco products, @ oral nicotine — as “misinformation.” Undermines public health innovation & ignores extensive evidence Full press release: bit.ly/3N4Yi1Q

“In a new Code Against Cancer, the World Health Organisation opposes the most effective and popular way to reduce the most important modifiable cancer risk, smoking. So, what does that make WHO?” open.substack.com/pub/clivebat...

Organised crime in Australia, spanning decades, thrives on illegal markets. Historically, prohibition and stringent regulations drive criminal enterprises, like 1920s razor gangs or recent tobacco wars. theconversation.com/prohibitive-...

Alan Gor nails it: “The real debate is not whether anecdotes outrank cohort data. It is whether vaping is being evaluated with the same consistency, humility and openness that public health expects everywhere else” When Evidence Becomes Selective open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...

Immensely powerful market forces are unstoppable & will inevitably ensure safer, smoke-free nicotine products replace deadly cigarettes - whatever vape denialists do @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social

FCTC at 21: One Billion Smokers Later @alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...

Must read commentary by Clive Bates re new @who.int publication on cancer prevention. Instead of WHO promoting harm reduction for tobacco, side with tobacco & nicotine abstinence. Severe reputational damage for WHO years to come! @chancethegardener.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/clivebat...

Swedish organisations support taxing nicotine containing products proportional to risk clearingtheair.eu/en/post/cons...

Anti-democratic. The @WHO warns Ireland about "tobacco industry opposition," but who is lobbying ministers behind closed doors? Leaked FOI documents show the WHO is using Ireland as a pawn to force a ban-heavy agenda. 🏛️🥊 clearingtheair.eu/post/who-chi...

Smoker quitting & staying quit is great whether or not they continue with smoke free nicotine. Aim is to reduce risk smoking related deaths & disease.

Expenditure on 5 main illicit drugs – cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA (ecstasy) & heroin – estimated at A$11.2 billion. Not including Australia’s fastest growing illicit drug market, nicotine, with expenditure recently estimated to be A$7.2 billion. theconversation.com/prohibitive-...

Check out the latest from @edjegasothy.bsky.social and me about Australia's historical experience with prohibition, and what lessons we can learn about it's impact on illicit markets and organised crime. theconversation.com/prohibitive-...

Fourteen Years Without Smoke On My Birthday, I Celebrate the Day Vaping Helped Me Leave Cigarettes Behind @alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...

🚨 BREAKING: 9 consumer groups are urging Sweden to VETO a proposed EU tobacco tax hike. The proposal targets vapes and nicotine pouches with massive price increases, which experts warn will protect cigarette sales and undermine the "Swedish Model." 🇸🇪📉 Read more: clearingtheair.eu/en/post/cons...

Congratulations & grateful thanks to brave Mexican law enforcement risking their lives to kill drug kingpin. Pity it wont make scrap of difference @algore09algor.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social @steverolles.bsky.social @drugpolicy.org @algore09algor.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

1/3 Japan Tobacco (JTI) estimate total market share for reduced risk nicotine products for full year 2025 based on industry shipments - aligns well with 51.2% share in recent PMI estimate. So sales heated tobacco either about to overtake cigarette sales in 🇯🇵 or recently done so.

Tobacco control not only blocks contact with experts with different views, ie support tobacco harm reduction but also people with lived/living experience. Tobacco companies interested in views of harm reduction experts & people with lived/living experience. No wonder Big Tobacco will win

‘Oseguera Cervantes's death will likely have no impact on Mexico's multinational drug trade or curb violence, according to multiple experts’ Really? You mean killing drug kingpin no effect on drug trade again? @jamomartin.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Harm reduction is generally very much a bottom up movement. Use reduction is very much a top down movement. Tobacco control is a use reduction movement

Disruptive Innovation examples: ✅Smartphones ✅Streaming media ✅Electric vehicles ✅E-commerce platforms ✅Sharing economy platforms ✅Cloud computing ✅Digital payments ✅mRNA vaccines ✅Generative AI ✅Reusable rockets ✅E-books, digital publishing ✅Telemedicine ❌Tobacco Harm Reduction* *Condition Apply

Core principles of harm reduction: 1 Accepts risky behaviour occurs 2 Prioritises reducing harm over moral judgement 3 Is evidence based 4 Respects autonomy & human rights 5 Often delivers large public health returns relative to cost @jmenezes.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

Nothing About Us Without Us Unless It’s Nicotine When public health forgets its own most important principle @alexwodak.bsky.social 09algor.substack.com/p/nothing-ab...

Young people use vapes “3 times more likely” to start smoking. But as this only observational, incapable of establishing causal relationship*. *Note Conditions Apply: Observational evidence can be used to infer causal relationships for vaping @publichealthaus.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social

Tobacco control & Big Tobacco swapped tactics. Big Tobacco used to deny smoking caused cancer though they knew it did. Now some tobacco control leaders claim vaping more risky than smoking. Welcome new Merchants of Doubt! @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

When Your Strongest Argument Is Counting Chairs @alexwodak.bsky.social

Make Smoking Great Again! •Ban/severely restrict vapes •⬆️price cigs sky high so really cheap cigs now on black market •Ban almost all vape flavours •Misinform smokers vapes more risky than cigs @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Is "switching" a lie in some health studies? 📉🤥 New analysis by Dr. @ArielleSelya reveals that recent papers labeled people as "vape switchers" even if they were still smoking, muddying the water on how much vapes actually help. clearingtheair.eu/post/flawed-...

~93 countries operate needle & syringe programs (as of 2024) & ~95 countries offer opioid treatment including methadone according to @harmreductionintl.bsky.social. Each of these programs had to be be fought for against ferocious resistance @jmenezes.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

The Endgame Illusion - When Moral Certainty Replaces Policy Reality @alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/09algor/...

Laser like ability to cut to centre of arguments: Tobacco harm reduction movement can count Clive Bates among its ranks. A kind of battle-hardened rock star of the field, British advocate is a formidable operator; without representing any major organisation filtermag.org/tobacco-harm...

There are so many #BrutalTruths in this @kiransidhu41.bsky.social interview of @clivebates.bsky.social about the future of nicotine and public health. Where does Clive get it wrong, tho? He would love to get less wrong, I'm sure.

“Nothing about us without us”* Universal principal of involving people with lived/living experience now accepted as essential in public health policy development *Note: Conditions apply for people who smoke/vape @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

Black market tobacco crackdown: Liberals target illegal cigarettes used by 1.5 million Australians. The Australian ‘Buying cigs on black market … described as “national ­catastrophe” risks smoking rates ⬆️1st time>30 years & jeopardising future budget’ @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

U.S. PATH Study (2026) Results: Exclusive Vaping: No significant heart disease link. ✅ Smoking: 11% higher risk. 📈 Inflammation: The "smoking gun" for heart damage. 🧬 #QuitLikeSweden #VapeSafe #HeartDisease #FactCheck clearingtheair.eu/post/no-sign...

US regulators moved closer to allowing Zyn brand nicotine pouches 2 B marketed as less-harmful option to cigarettes. Recent public hearing org by USFDA reviewed evidence whether Swedish Match can include “reduced risk” language when advertising Zyn nicotine pouches snusforumet.se/en/while-eur...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Brussels is coming for your nicotine. New EU proposals would slash cross-border cigarette limits by 50% and slap a massive €0.30/ml tax on all vape liquids. With pouches set at €107/kg, make no mistake, this is a tax on quitting. #EUTax #Vaping 🇪🇺 clearingtheair.eu/post/exclusi...

‘Wastewater samples collected across Australia, representing 14 million people, were analyzed for back-estimation. … Illicit tobacco use was estimated to have increased from 1350 to 3400 tons from 2017 to 2023’ @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Prohibitionists, including those among tobacco control, ignore miserable track record of drug & tobacco prohibitions & quasi prohibitions for effectiveness, cost effectiveness & nasty unintended consequences @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

‘ … Reducing excise rates would shift consumption away from illicit products.' Review of Australia’s illicit tobacco market apo.org.au/node/333573