Meanwhile Cancer Council & @markbutlermp.bsky.social ignore huge contribution of vaping to accelerated recent decline of smoking in young Australians by replacing deadly cigarettes with much safer smoke free nicotine! @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @edjegasothy.bsky.social

Increasing number traded tobacco companies, like Altria, hauled up white flag & now race to transform from cigarettes to low risk, smoke free nicotine products. But tobacco control zealots doing darndest to stop them! Rocks in their heads! @chancethegardener.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

UNSW study is vaping effective as quit smoking aid in disadvantaged: verified 6-month continuous abstinence rate 9.6% (50 of 523) in NRT group & 28.4% (148 of 522) in VNP group (… >99% posterior probability VNP is superior) @m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social @caphra.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

I’ll tell you what’s amazing! That people are still amazed when even more new evidence comes out confirming that vaping is an effective tool to help smokers quit smoking! Vaping nicotine is a form of harmed reduction and we know that harm reduction really works! @ianamossyd.bsky.social

@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social This is not public health, it’s damage control!! www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Survey of Online Harms in Canada 2025 dais.ca/reports/surv... "Canadians are reporting higher exposure to online hate and misinformation which continues to further corrode our democracy and shared citizenship..." "Misinformation was the most common reported harm..."

the government is going to use the increase in overdose and substance abuse deaths as justification for more intense crackdowns on people addicted to drugs and to funnel even more money into a bloated criminal justice system

Watch Will Godfrey’s post-#GFN25 reaction, where he underscores the critical importance of effective communication in advancing the conversation around safer nicotine products.

The Best News Billionaires can buy. Where Have All the Journalists Gone? They found something that pays better … and that's bad news for democracy. Propaganda-fueled news #misinformation to push their ideological agendas. #nannystate #personalfreedoms lost. www.thefirebreak.org/p/where-have...

@alexwodak.bsky.social johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...

As we celebrate #CanadaDay we wonder IF/WHEN Cdn govt, will recognize *THR tobacco harm reduction helps adults quit 🚬; helping Cdn reach 5% smoking rate goal. Under current restrictions, over taxation, it is stalling reducing smoking rates. Nicotine does not harm, Smoking Does! #THRWorks saves lives

Happy Canada Day to every proud Canadian across the globe ❤️🇨🇦 This national holiday marks the anniversary of Canadian Confederation when Canada officially became a self governing country on July 1, 1867 🇨🇦❤️ Wishing you a day filled with joy, laughter & pride as we celebrate our beautiful country❤️🇨🇦

A woman died on Rikers this morning, the fourth person in custody to die *in one month*. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/20/w...

"We'll have to take a look" -- Trump doesn't close the door on the idea of deporting Elon Musk for committing the infraction of criticizing him

NEW: More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers www.nytimes.com/interactive/... by @shwoolf.bsky.social "...the administration is kneecapping the very infrastructure that would make that feasible and is instead enacting policies that will compromise health."

Happy Canada Day! Bonne fête du Canada!

Loneliness Among US Adults: A Growing Concern? www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... "Approximately 37% of US adults experienced moderate-to-severe loneliness in a survey..."

People are going to die here, not from alligators but from exposure and mosquito-borne illnesses. I know that they don’t care but we still still should.

Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association will end its active advocacy in August due to lack of funds. By @kiransidhu41.bsky.social:

Reality: immigration ≠ crime. Studies consistently show that immigrants do NOT increase crime (on the contrary). The lie has been so normalized (usually via scary anecdoates) that few politicians or news outlets speak up. Eg: www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@alexwodak.bsky.social www.roymorgan.com/findings/993...

What! Surely not! Have Australia’s zealot anti tobacco harm reduction activists managed to actually increase Oz smoking rates! As well as smash government revenue, boost violent cig & vape black market! Simon, Becky - tell me this isn’t true! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

@alexwodak.bsky.social archive.is/4ACFU#select... www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/becky-f...

The US public is being hammered with social media messages telling them "e-cigarettes are popular with teens," implying most vapers are teens. That health misinformation is brought to you by grantees of one foundation: Bloomberg Philanthropies. . This graph is accurate based on CDC surveys.

Things that can’t go on forever, don’t. Epidemic of deadly cigarettes has gone on too long but now coming to an end thanks mainly to replacement by low risk smoke free options like vapes. @jgitchell.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social

It's time for sensible regulation of vaping products in Australia!

I am heartbroken by the news from Colorado where Karen Diamond, a victim of the vicious attack earlier this month, has passed away. May Karen’s memory be a blessing and a reminder that we must constantly work to eradicate hatred and violence.

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

The people currently deciding whether millions of Americans deserve not to die painfully and early from entirely preventable causes also believe that a 23 week fetus that was aborted in 1955 survived in a pan outside, and that’s a problem. But that’s how serious their understanding of medicine is.

#Canada Health Canada 🚨RECALL🚨 on some Ozempic pens. IF you take this drug, please check the LOT and Reference # s. recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-rec...

I just got poked by my own finger! I've been complaining about Ad Hominem attacks and then realized how guilty I am of them! skipscorner.substack.com/p/thinking-b... Thinking 'bout THR Newsletter March 17-23, 2025

Reminder:

“By the time Mr. Trump made his announcement on Thursday, there were already signs that Paul Weiss had been burned in making a deal with Mr. Trump.” How naïve to think Trump would negotiate in good faith 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

Mike Meyers and Mark Carney ❤️❤️❤️#ElbowsUp 🇨🇦🍁

Chicago

When you make sure your friends get to eat too. #dogs

Tune into @GlobalEdmonton tonight! I had the chance to speak about the Canada Disability Benefit and how provincial clawbacks—led by Minister Jason Nixon—are hurting people with disabilities before the benefit even begins. #CanadaDisabilityBenefit #DisabilityJustice #AccessForAll

We live in a SICK world. 😲Ovens and bone fragments - BBC visits Mexican cartel 'extermination' site (drug overlords not only murder they cover it up by burning bodies. Hundreds of missing ppl possibly extermined. 😢https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8gv7j5gyo

Note: smoke-free net revenue for PMI, world’s largest traded tobacco company, increased almost 30 times from only $0.2 billion in 2015 to $14.7 billion in 2024 when they represented 40% of total PMI revenue! Think I know how this movie will end! @clivebates.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social

God, the fragility of male ego that needs to block everyone who is not male and white so they can sustain the fantasy that white men are better at everything. FFS

Dear Fuhrer Trump and his Gauleiter Musk can get along without us. independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

This country is broken.

At the risk of being brash, I'm reminded of "put up or shut up." As @clivebates.bsky.social well knows, I like making long bets on nicotine policy outcomes. I do not find much willingness to do so among the orthodox TC community. Lots of potential reasons for that, but none are good.

Here’s a recent forecast: Goldman Sachs 15 March 2025 “ .. we forecast consumption of smoke-free nicotine products will surpass consumption of combustible products in volume this year and approach it in revenues & profits by 2035 as smokers continue to convert to reduced-risk alternatives”

#NIHobbling UK researchers defend diversity in science against Trump’s ‘war’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Colorado…

X is reportedly suspending opposition accounts in Turkey — it previously did this at the behest of the Turkish government. This type of cooperation with governments is exactly what Musk has contested when criticizing other platforms or previous leaders of Twitter. www.politico.eu/article/musk...

Before we ban school litterboxes, have we tried installing litterbox detectors and a litterbox police force at every elementary school?