Hey Simon, Becky, Cancer Council, @publichealthaus.bsky.social How’s sky high cigarette taxes & vape denialism workin’ for ya? @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Also .. press for cig taxes keep on being increased forever & governments agree. Then smokers switch to now buy from flourishing black market & taxpayers lose billions! Organised crime laughing! Well done zealots! #auspol @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Meanwhile 16-19 year old Norwegian men daily smoking heading for extinction after being replaced by daily snus use. It’s called ‘tobacco harm reduction’ & abstinence cultists hate it! #Substitution @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social

Many countries where smoke-free nicotine options now rapidly replacing deadly cigarettes-despite misinformation tsunami & govt indifference/hostility. Iceland is another country rapidly switching from high to low risk @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social gsthr.org/resources/br...

Smoking cigarettes daily almost extinct in Norwegian women aged 16-19 thanks to substitution by safer, smoke-free nicotine products. That’s one big step for tobacco harm reduction. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

Policy on nicotine vapes & other low risk options now impervious to ever increasing quantity & quality of scientific evidence or even severe unintended negative consequences of failure. But policy heading inevitably for collapse sooner or later @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

For 1st time, more Great Britain adults use vapes >smoke cigarettes. 5.4 million >16 years vaped daily/occasionally in 2024 vs 4.9 million smoke. ie 10% of population vape vs 9.1% smoke—a figure that’s down from 10.5% in 2023 @ianamossyd.bsky.social filtermag.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?...

1/2 Japan Tobacco Q3’25 results: Total 🇯🇵cig sales ⬇️another 6.5% vs Q3’24. Overall unit sales heated tobacco products ⬆️by as much as cig sales ⬇️. HTPs now estimated 46.1% of domestic market. www.jt.com/investors/re...

2/2 Both 🇯🇵 &🇺🇸 on verge of smoke-free products outselling cigs: transformation despite policy & information environment discouraging it. @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social

Inevitability of safer, smoke-free nicotine options soon completely replacing cigarettes @publichealthaus.bsky.social @profglantz.com @drbfreeman.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Greatest achievement of vape opponents been to persuade many vaping is as, or even more dangerous than smoking when globally 8 million smoker deaths/year & no scientifically attributed vaping deaths. Propaganda works @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social

Sydney Morning Herald prints anti vape propaganda yet again! No wonder many now believe vapes as dangerous or even more so than cigarettes! Complete utter bollocks! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/for...

Sad to see @drbfreeman.bsky.social & Simon Chapman descending to this level. Surely by now they must have realised they’ve chosen wrong side & are defending the indefensible. Vapes much safer than smoking & help many smokers quit. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

@profglantz.com is par for the course among anti vape activists. This isn’t science. Its ideology. And anyway safer, smoke-free nicotine options are rapidly replacing combustible cigarettes @ianamossyd.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

What chance does Australian law enforcement have of substantially denting vape trade? Zero! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/national/the...

Q3’25 PMI continues expand range of smoke-free products in ⬆️number of countries! Great news for public health! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social

Q3’25 PMI dramatic ⬆️sales of nicotine pouches in ⬆️number countries! Great news for public health! Doing well by doing good! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social

Just in case you missed latest new big & beautiful cigarette crackdown announced by @tonyburkemp.bsky.social Why will this #futile crackdown work when others didn’t? #auspol @squigglyrick.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social #Failure @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social www.news.com.au/national/cri...

#Vape market growing rapidly globally & regionally. Imagining this can be stopped is delusional. As number of vapers increases so will their political power

Thank you Mr Speaker. My question is to @tonyburkemp.bsky.social Minister good luck with your law enforcement illegal cigarettes jihad. Please give even 1 example where a law enforcement crusade against a well established black market worked #auspol @jamomartin.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social

Wonder how many lung cancer deaths worldwide could be prevented in next 20 years if international health establishment accepted existing overwhelming evidence for vaping & other smoke-free nicotine options? @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @sanho.bsky.social

Stan, appealing to a respected organisation isn’t an argument. If you believe vaping nicotine is unsafe, where’s your evidence? Now ~140 million vaping in dozens of countries starting from ~0 in 2010. Where are deaths? Hospital admissions? Vaping much lower risk than smoking @jgitchell.bsky.social

Animal ‘experiments in conjunction with absence of any observed ill effects in patients exposed to both triethylene glycol & propylene glycol vapors for months provide assurance air containing these vapors in amounts up to saturation point completely harmless’ jpet.aspetjournals.org/article/S002...

Vaping “likely to be far less harmful than combustible tobacco cigarettes” according to National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. @profglantz.com accept NASEM judgment? If not, why not? Thank you for your attention to this matter @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social

Vaping “been commercially available for > 2 decades, & there is increasing evidence of their potential to improve population health”. Exactly! Technological changes sometimes ⬆️ & sometimes ⬇️ risk. Authorities sometimes clearly got it wrong & increased risk mis perception by public

Anti tobacco harm reduction activists know they can’t campaign on scientific evidence because the facts strongly favour their opponents. So they campaign on bogus evidence like “a whole new generation addicted to nicotine” even though they know it’s BS @drugpolicy.org @harmreductionintl.bsky.social

Air-quality reforms in China ⬇️concentrations of fine particulates by ~ 1/2 since 2013 preventing estimated 2.2 mn premature deaths/year. Analysis shows average citizen now lives 2.9 years longer with clean-air gains rivalling those from decades of US environmental policy -but achieved in 1 decade

*River blindness receding worldwide *American cities getting safer & more walkable *3 vaccination campaigns in Global South of ‘staggering scale.’ *>95% of the world’s countries agreed to protect seamounts. *Aztec-era farms heal Mexico City wetlands 1/2

Crazy & even crazier. Tobacco control zealots argue that world should ban cigarettes with filters! snowdon.substack.com/p/banning-ci...

Former World Health Organisation director accuses WHO of ignoring science & blocking progress on tobacco harm reduction. Warns WHO’s current position risks stalling efforts to cut smoking in Asia-Pacific – region with highest number of smokers in the world. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/whos...

Excellent summary of technological changes in history of nicotine devices aiming to provide rapid delivery with less harm. Now blocked by tobacco control zealots mis representing relative risk

New Viewpoint in @jamahealthforum.com with @jhb19.bsky.social, Benowitz, and @rachelylfung.bsky.social. We argue e-cigs are not a radical break, but a predictable technological step in a long history of people seeking rapid nicotine delivery with less harm. Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/3

‘Never start fight you know you can’t win’ @tonyburkemp.bsky.social! If you’re trying to get folks buy pkt of legal cigarettes for $50 & they can buy pkt cigs for $12 from Mr Big (making fortune selling at $12) you’ll never win that fight @jamomartin.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

It IS a bit shocking that the media goes along with this. Almost as if there are no fact checkers anymore...

Mainstream media today been hollowed out & doesn’t have time to do much more than repeat govt press releases. Independent media much more critical of tobacco harm reduction denialist bogus science eg @squigglyrick.bsky.social in Australia. @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

No @tonyburkemp.bsky.social you’re never gonna get smokers pay $50 pkt fags when they can buy illegal pkt for $12! Mr Big still makes motza selling em $12! @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social 100% right @publichealthaus.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social

How to Prohibit Things 101: 1) Claim companies that make [A] "target children" 2) Claim "[A] is a gateway to [B]" 3) Claim that everyone who shares evidence contradicting 1 & 2 must work for industry A = Adult thing that a few kids use illegally B = Truly scary thing

Oh by the way, what they’re trying to make super scarce - virtually prohibited - is much, much safer than something that kills 8 million people in the world every year! Scandalous! @drbfreeman.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

WARNING: Police often overstate value of quantity illicit drugs seized by providing retail (higher) rather than wholesale (lower) estimate. Unfortunately hard to find evidence that seizures like this have significant benefits. @jamomartin.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Alcoholic drinks, cigarettes & petrol long been staples of taxation because relatively inelastic ie small reduction consumption when price increases. But now cigarettes & petrol becoming obsolete from tax perspective. What now? @grogsgamut.bsky.social @johnquiggin.bsky.social

The Sequel-The Australian public is starting to see through the performance. Smoking rates are creeping back up. The black market is booming. Trust in public health is eroding. @alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/the-seq...

Tobacco control thinks evidence & outcomes can be ignored & overcome by smearing people with different views & presenting bogus research. Just delaying inevitable

Harm reduction is ubiquitous and effective so why doesn’t Australia use it for tobacco? @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

When nicotine demand so strong & you ⬆️restrictions legal supply, all you do is switch supply from legal to illegal. Neo-prohibition doesn’t work. Try some harm reduction-that really works @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Please try to persuade your uncle to switch from deadly combustible tobacco to smoke-free nicotine option @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

Really great to see APSAD honouring First Nations pioneer in conference. But shameful APSAD still provides platform for vaping denialism. Tobacco harm reduction must be part of what APSAD does @aivl.bsky.social @edjegasothy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social apsadconference.com.au/james-rankin...

What’s world’s most popular quit smoking aid? What’s world’s most effective quit smoking aid? Same answer both questions: vaping nicotine @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social

Sadly all too true. Vape opponents have dominated mainstream media for years. Cite bogus research. Make claims repeatedly they must know aren’t true. Smear their enemies. Support harm reduction but for some reason not for tobacco. But things that can’t go on forever don’t. @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Cigarette excise has benefits & disadvantages. When high rather than sky high, benefits > disadvantages. But Australia kept on increasing excise & keeping them sky high while ignoring huge & growing disadvantages @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Illicit tobacco consumption in Australia Year / Proportion of the Market 2015 / 14.4 per cent 2016 / 14.3 2017 / 14.7 2018 / 14.0 2019 / 20.4 2020 / 16.7 2021 / 18.2 2022 / 22.9 2023 / 28.6 2024 / 39.4 2025 / 50.0 (expected) From Herald-Sun @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social