Monsters.

This is worth 20 minutes of your time. @rutgerbregman.com on how to live a life that actually matters youtu.be/1Vi96A6tFxI?...

MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues. Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.

Proud to be among the ~1000 Jewish Professionals in health who signed the #SilenceIsComplicity letter. Too many of our institutions are silent while an entire population is being bombed, starved, displaced in Gaza. Time to say #EndTheGenocide Add your signature at www.JewishHealthcare.net

Dr. Brandon Libby an ED doc: We are bound by an oath to protect life, dignity, health for all people. The genocide in Gaza is shattering our oath. I am also among the >1000 Jewish health professionals that have signed a letter declaring #SilenceisComplicity join us at JewishHealthcare.net!!

COPD has an image problem—can this man fix it? “It’s only through multi-sectoral partnership—tackling tobacco control, air pollution, housing problems—that you can translate that political declaration into meaningful results.” www.bmj.com/content/390/... @bmj.com

"Across Europe and North America, racism, xenophobia, and far-right nationalism have become normalised in public and political discourse, leading many people to feel anxiety and fear of violence, discrimination, and hatred." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

And a new Taylor Swift album. Jubilation! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Healthcare: what is it for? Inaugural event of the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare: Sir David Haslam. Fri Oct 31st: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/centr... @mgtmccartney.bsky.social

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It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

Regulatory options to prevent environmental harm & pollution across the tobacco product life cycle. Trillions of useless plastic cigarette filters are discarded into the environment every year #FilterFraud @ashorguk.bsky.social #ERScongress #LungSky Report: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Ignoring smoking as a key modifiable risk factor for osteoporosis. #ERScongress #LungSky #RespEd www.bmj.com/content/390/... @bmj.com

Very important 🧵 on tobacco policy in the EU 👇👇👇

Tobacco Companies Targeting Health Professionals: Dentistry and PMI. #RespEd www.tobaccotactics.org/article/targ... #ERSCongress @whofctc.bsky.social

Home and outpatient NIV initiation is not inferior to in-hospital initiation in people with neuromuscular or restrictive thoracic diseases. #ERScongress thorax.bmj.com/content/80/1... @bmj.com #LungSky

I presented this figure today from the great work of @copddoc.bsky.social et al while talking of the burden of #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth in #RespiratoryDisease & the work of the Spanish Coalition for Respiratory Health fostered by @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social Lung health through social justice!

Tobacco Endgame Report for European Respiratory Society : Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control. Download here: ers.app.box.com/s/q2sei9upue... #ERScongress @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social /n

Defend science and protect public health. #ERSCongress @btsrespiratory.bsky.social www.ersnet.org/news-and-fea...

“personne ne commence, tout le monde arrete, pas un sou pour l’industrie du tabac” www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... @lemonde.fr @whofctc.bsky.social @ashorg.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social

Great to see Liverpool Council leading the way with smokefree outdoor hospitality spaces. 👏 Our polling shows strong public support for stopping smoking outside cafes, restaurants and pubs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UN event celebrates 20 Years of the WHO FCTC in driving global action on NCDs. fctc.who.int/newsroom/new... @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social

Smart. Need to crack on and get the Tobacco and Vapes bill into law. @ashorguk.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

Looking forward to attending my first @rcphysicians.bsky.social Council meeting this morning.

Cigarettes butts are the most littered item in the UK - and the public support action. As well as the environmental impact, cigarette filters dupe people into thinking they provide protection, when actually they are a marketing gimmick... 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

👀*NEW* research into the potential impact of standardised packaging on vapes highlights the need for the Government to push on with the Tobacco & Vapes Bill. Smart regulations could tackle teen vaping, without deterring adult use as a quit aid.

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

🚨New study has found that plain packaging could help address youth vaping, without deterring adults or increasing harm misperceptions of vapes compared to cigarettes. www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Amazing film!!! A group of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride, refused to work on Chilean Air Force parts due to the atrocities carried out in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship. Heartwarming documentary evidencing the power of ordinary people & resistance. vimeo.com/ondemand/nae...

#tdih 1976 Exiled Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier & @ips-dc.org staffer Ronni Moffitt were killed 💔 by car bomb at Sheridan Circle in DC, set by secret police of U.S.-backed Augusto Pinochet regime in Chile. #terrorism Read ⬇️ & watch @democracynow.org segment. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

A profound meditation on the human condition. youtu.be/wMQZG9u4Sjg?...

Wishing Sophia Loren a very happy birthday youtu.be/UzXXxHYfRBA?...

Commuting podcast: Peter Openshaw on Pandemic Preparedness. www.respiratoryfutures.org.uk/resources/th... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

Commuting Podcast: The security implications of global heating and climate disruption. open.spotify.com/episode/0cZY... #RespEd #LungSky

Smart steps forward: the role of wearables in long-term rehabilitation after lung transplantation thorax.bmj.com/content/80/1... @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #LungSky #RespEd

Telemedicine in home mechanical ventilation: promise, pitfalls and path forward thorax.bmj.com/content/80/1...

October edition of Thorax thorax.bmj.com/content/80/1... @bmj.com

GOOD NEWS: The ozone layer is on track for full recovery by 2050, the UN reports. This is proof that when world leaders listen to scientists, and take swift action, we can literally HEAL our planet. So if we fixed the ozone hole, why can't we do the same for climate change? #WorldOzoneDay 🌍

Ceasefire now.

Japan Tobacco International (JTI), has been called an “international sponsor of war” by Ukraine’s state-run National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP). observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Detecting Emphysema On Baseline LDCT Scan For Lung Cancer Screening Predicted Mortality Over 25 Years Of Follow-Up In Those With History Of Smoking #RespEd pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/... #LungSky

Smoking - bad for health, bad for the environment, bad for the economy. In England, 1 in 9 working-age smokers ~700,000 people, are not in work due to long-term illness or disability. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @whofctc.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @drsarahejackson.bsky.social

"The country desperately needs a prevention revolution, and this government should make good on its promise to deliver one." www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Commuting podcast: timely In Our Time on Paul Von Hindenberg - shepherding in the Nazis www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m....

Duties of a Doctor (General Medical Council) imply that giving out false or misleading information that could lead to harm might be grounds for removing a doctor from the Medical Register.

Excellent news: Cytisine (cytisinicline) a powerful new tobacco cessation drug added to the @who.int Essential Medicines List. ash.org/new-tobacco-... @ashorguk.bsky.social #RespEd #LungSky @whofctc.bsky.social @ash.org