1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness

COVID inquiry - damning verdict on the lethal incompetence of disgraced former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

COVID inquiry - damning verdict on the lethal incompetence of disgraced former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🌍 Today is #WorldCOPDDay We would like to highlight a paper in our recent Series on the Global Epidemiology of Chronic Respiratory Disease, looking at epidemiology and effect of prevention strategies on #COPD burden globally 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Today @tomdolphin.bsky.social met @ruthcadbury.bsky.social, Chair of the Transport Select Committee in Parliament. Discussions included pressing issues facing doctors and the Government’s upcoming road safety strategy, including measures to lower the UK blood alcohol limit for driving.

Today – World COPD Day – Dr Keir Philip and his team’s research into the condition has been published in @bmj.com Open Respiratory Research 🫁 Analysing results from an @asthmaandlung.org.uk survey, they found material deprivation increases COPD patients’ likelihood of seeking emergency healthcare 🩺

Lower-intensity smoking is associated with cardiovascular risk and the primary public health message for current smokers should be early cessation, rather than reducing the amount of smoking. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... #LungSky #RespEd @ashorguk.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

Short of breath - think COPD site.thoracic.org/press-releas... #WorldCOPDday #LungSky #RespEd

Great to see @britishmuseum.bsky.social finally cut financial ties with tobacco giant JTI. As ASH Chair @copddoc.bsky.social says "It is completely unacceptable that the industry, which kills millions of people every year, is trying to launder its reputation...” www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

BREAKING: The British Museum’s controversial partnership with tobacco manufacturer JTI is OVER! www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art... - Yet this wasn’t the Museum finally making an ethical choice; instead the sponsorship was ended after an intervention by the Department of Health.

Smoke and Mirrors Unmasking disinformation from the tobacco industry www.bath.ac.uk/publications...

Material deprivation is associated with more frequent emergency and unplanned healthcare utilisation in COPD. bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/12/1... #WorldCOPDday #StructuralViolence @imperialnhli.bsky.social @bmj.com #LungSky #RespEd @fphuk.bsky.social @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

TOBACCO ENDGAME - Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control. @asthmaandlung.org.uk #FCTCCOP11 #COP11 www.ersnet.org/wp-content/u... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd

Genocide - over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

Commuting podcast: bond vigilantes www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and... @lrb.co.uk

The comet comes hurtling.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3SE...

BAT - sleazy, racist mass murderers. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Indoor wood burners linked to a decline in lung function www.ersnet.org/news-and-fea...

Report from ERS on the Adoption of Tobacco Endgame Policies in the EU confirms legal basis for introducing a generational sales ban. www.ersnet.org/wp-content/u... #LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #RespEd @ash.org

Efficacy of fentanyl buccal tablet and morphine for exertional dyspnoea in patients with cancer: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial #LungSky #RespEd thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...

Towards a practical tool to identify HYDIN genotype using high-speed videomicroscopy thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #Thorax

The NHS opt-out inpatient tobacco dependency service provides treatment on an equitable basis, with the greatest proportion of patients making a supported quit attempt in the most deprived quintile. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com #LungSky #RespEd

"the shift from nonfilter to filter cigarettes appears to have merely altered the most frequent type of lung cancer, from squamous cell to adenomcrarcinoma." @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #'RespEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Asthma + Lung UK invite you to a free online COPD webinar! Wed 19 Nov, 6pm. Prof John Hurst: “What does good care look like?” Join at www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/groups-suppo... @asthmaandlung.org.uk #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

Structural violence. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a public and unrepentant racism and sexism that made Watson a pariah in life and poisoned his legacy in death.

Putting out the garbage.

It's hard to convey my disgust & moral outrage at Trump & Rubio for killing hundreds of thousands My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic. 1/n

Reducing the harms from ever larger cars. www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com @asthmaandlung.org.uk

"It makes us feel really vulnerable." With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9... 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Nice @bbcnews.bsky.social story about successful lung volume reduction surgery for COPD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @asthmaandlung.org.uk

Magnificent www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

we have been covering this for months and months now, here (again) is my interview with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about this subject from Thursday @teenvogue.com

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

Edward Wadie Said would have turned 90 today - The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2

WHO condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan. Read the full press release: bit.ly/3WuVZ9u

Cigarette filters - the “deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation". www.tobaccotactics.org/article/ciga... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd

Powerful "nicotine is not addictive" vibes. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Polluter pays tobacco levy briefing. @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social ash.org.uk/resources/vi... #LungSky #RespEd

"Three values have animated my work - truth, justice and hope." Michael Marmot.

The Belgrade Declaration on Tobacco Taxation and Competitiveness affirms that effective tobacco taxation is one of Europe’s highest‑impact, evidence‑based policies. ensp.network/the-10th-ens... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social

If we’re serious about building a cleaner, healthier future, then banning cigarette filters isn’t radical – it’s common sense. www.openaccessgovernment.org/ban-the-butt... @ashorguk.bsky.social

Good news for lung health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Stop Smoking London LGBTQ+ Week (27-31 October 2025) stopsmokinglondon.com/lgbtq-week/

Good news for lung health today as Awaab's Law comes into force - the coroner's report on this completely preventable death is harrowing. www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o... @asthmaandlung.org.uk

Nore tobacco sleaze.

Documenting atrocity: child malnutrition in Gaza. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

The burning of wood and coal in homes contributes to almost 2,500 deaths a year in the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/... @asthmaandlung.org.uk #RespEd #LungSky @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

Commuting Podcast: Frantz Fanon on @philosophybites.bsky.social philosophybites.com/podcast/lewi...

Why not join Doctors for the NHS? "We have been fighting for the NHS and the values it stands for since the 1970s; we "know our stuff". We set up Keep Our NHS Public in 2005 and the NHS Support Federation." doctorsforthenhs.org.uk