Oh dear ... vaping promoters' most sacrosanct theological tenet: that vaping in NZ is driving down youth smoking, just got smashed in a new @thelancet.com paper theconversation.com/vaping-has-s...

The ban on single-use #vapes was introduced to reduce Jersey’s waste. Retailers have until February next year to sell existing product stock. www.bailiwickexpress.com/news/single-...

$2.1 billion is the equivalent of 🌍 military expenditure every 8h $2.1 billion is the price of 1 stealth bomber $2.1 billion is 1/4 of what the tobacco industry spends on advertising & promotion every year. It seems somebody switched the price tags on what is truly valuable in our world. #WHA78

‪ #TobRegSky‬ #PedSky #MedSky #Chemsky #EpiSky #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 @ats-eoph.bsky.social The flavored liquids in e-cigarettes are chemically unstable. New report demonstrates that some flavor chemicals degrade rapidly under shelf storage conditions. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The lies behind the e-cigarette industry’s claims about reducing smoking. We always knew it was a Trojan Horse to hook the young and now the evidence is confirming it. mg.co.za/thought-lead...

Among people who recently quit smoking cigarettes, those who switch to non-cigarette tobacco products (including e-cigarettes) may be more likely to slip vs those who go tobacco-free, but they are not clearly more likely to relapse, find Ruoyan Sun et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/article-...

Another tenet of vaping theology shattered by new analysis of NZ youth vaping. It does not "displace" smoking. It slows its decline. theconversation.com/the-tobacco-...

Up to two-thirds of deaths in current smokers can be attributed to smoking bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Daily vapers baste their airways & lungs ~560x a day. Not one of the 10s of 1000s of flavouring chemicals in vapes have ever been passed safe for inhalation (no inhaled pharmaceuticals are flavoured). This is why wise Oz gvt has banned all but 3 flavours simonchapman6.com/2023/06/14/d...

Large US cohort with adjustment for confounders & quitting measured at 12m finds neither vaping daily or non-daily associated with smoking cessation. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Is the new Emperor of Quitting losing his clothes?

"If FCTC is to continue to effectively address the tobacco epidemic, alongside the emergent nicotine and multiple product use epidemics, a step change in ambition is needed." Good start is to reign-in those pushing e-cigs as cessation aids. @cochranetag.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our Conversation briefing is now on line: tinyurl.com/4duv6art We used in-depth interviews to explore what young people addicted to vaping think of a nicotine-free generation policy. They called for much stronger regulation to protect future generations from the struggles they faced.

Now it's K-Pods: You allow industry novel tobacco products to break into your markets, be prepared to also accept a rise in other drug problems and harms that will inevitably occur. The corporate drug pushers have inventive minds when it comes to hooking kids. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/th...

A World War I poster with a prescient message:

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

"The great smokers of David Lynch’s youth – Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Betty Grable – all died terrible deaths of conditions related to smoking." www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe... @asthmaandlung.org.uk @ashorguk.bsky.social @ashorg.bsky.social

There is substantial evidence that e-cigarette exposure is associated with biomarkers reflective of cancer disease risk. www.tobaccoinduceddiseases.org/Evidence-upd...

🚭 L'Irlande instaure une licence pour le tabac & les e-cigarettes ! Dès 2026, les commerces devront payer une licence – une mesure efficace pour réduire les points de vente. La Suisse, elle, reste sans réglementation nationale. Une omission inacceptable ! 👉 www.at-schweiz.ch/fr/news-medi...

Can we talk about effectiveness at this level and can we base a plea for general public use ? "For every 100 people using nicotine e‐cigarettes to stop smoking, 8 to 10 might successfully stop, compared with only 6 of 100 people using NRT, ...." www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

À partir d’aujourd’hui, le nouveau podcast du Tobacco Control Research Group de l’Université de Bath est en ligne ! Le podcast examine les stratégies et mécanismes qui aident l’industrie à maintenir sa position. « Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco » – écoutez maintenant ! ⬇️

WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7

🚭 Innovations in Tobacco Control Lecture Series 🚭 📆Thurs 23 Jan, 9:00am ET Marit van Lenthe will talk about the School for Moral Ambition’s decision to make #TobaccoControl a key focus for their fellowship program. Register here ➡️ publichealth.jhu.edu/institute-fo... @igtc-hopkins.bsky.social

Don't believe anything you see on social media from those pushing e-cigs as a solution to the smoking problem. Novel tobacco products were simply designed to continue the addiction and harms - read expand industry profits, not to eliminate them. #IndustryFrontgroups

What is the association between physical activity 🏃 and smoking 🚬? Our new study shows that in 🇩🇪, physically active people are less likely to be a smoker. Smokers who are physically active smoke fewer cigarettes per day and have a higher motivation to stop smoking. bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/4...

The sale of disposable electronic cigarettes is banned in Belgium on health and environmental grounds from 1 January. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #vapewaste

How many ways do health authorities need to say it before some smokers wake up to the industry con job? The best way to quit smoking is to stop using, not continue with addiction and harms. A good move is to just quit for good in 2025!

Review conclusion: "In any case, the success rates for cessation with ENDS was 10 % - 12 %" That's still 90% failure rate with 3 of the 11 studies identifying vapes as effective as no intervention. And industry advocates still want to crow about it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Somebody just sent me this great documentary on the addiction industry: Big #Tobacco and its efforts to keep people hooked for as long as they can: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROVh... #publichealthsky #endgame

Christmas in Trump's America

While RFK is the weirdest nut job, the make America healthy again slogan is on the money. A nation that spends like crazy on healthcare and ranks 48th in life expectancy is essentially insulting its own population. Source: https://buff.ly/3Be423o

Daily vapers baste their lungs 207k/year with flavouring chemicals unapproved anywhere for inhalation. No regulatory authority anywhere allows asthma/COPD inhalant meds to be flavoured for safety reasons, yet vape advocates just shrug at this. simonchapman6.com/2023/06/14/d...

Vietnam's National Assembly votes to ban production, sale, import, storage, transportation and use of e-cigarettes starting 2025 e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vi...

This is how Donald is going to "Drain the Swamp"? Some election results start you wondering about the average mentality of voters.