On the most important preventable cause of death, ie smoking, VicHealth has become trapped in its own ideology while ignoring science, evidence and compassion. Why keep such an organisation? @squigglyrick.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

2/2 How can we hope to talk together, much less to be persuasive?” Thomas Kuhn Exactly as in disagreement re vaping & other smoke-free nicotine options @chancethegardener.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

2/2 Harm reduction is a fundamental component of many aspects of medicine & indeed everyday life, yet for some reason effective harm reduction principles have not been applied to tobacco smoking” Royal College of Physicians, 2007 @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Yet another rippa of a piece by @algore09algor.bsky.social on denialism in tobacco harm reduction: tobacco exceptionalism. Highly recommended. @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

New drug harm reduction interventions always faces ferocious headwinds from prohibitionists,abstentionists. Harm Reduction International estimates adoption every 2 years extent. This from 2024. Opposition to tobacco harm reduction is doomed @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social

Just released Altria report. Illicit vapes now driving rapid change in US nicotine market. Just imagine how much faster smoking would decline if US govt backed tobacco harm reduction! @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

Recent Altria report notes growth in US vape market now slowing significantly. Law enforcement against unauthorised vape products & tariffs against Chinese products both cited as contributing factors @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Altria’s recent report shows US sales oral smoke free nicotine options continue to grow like crazy! Tobacco harm reduction is winning market share despite ferocious tobacco control opposition @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

“War is Peace” “Ignorance is Strength” “Freedom is Slavery” Vaping is more dangerous than smoking @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social

Goldman Sachs reveal smoke-free nicotine products now account for 48% of overall US nicotine market, projected to comprise 75% of market within 10 years @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/02/smok...

American Council on Science & Health has new video on vaping which skewers anti vape bullshit! Well worth watching! @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social www.acsh.org/news/2026/01...

Cancer Council Australia part of national health establishment supported financially by government. Funding at risk real/perceived if accepts evidence vaping is safe & effective @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

Public health in Australia strongly supports harm reduction for illicit drugs & alcohol. But not for tobacco! Where is the logic in that? @publichealthaus.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @harmreductionintl.bsky.social

Encouraging more smokers to switch from high-risk cigarettes to low-risk smoke-free nicotine products such as vaping, heated tobacco & nicotine pouches is one of fastest ways of reducing incidence of cancer @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

What’s your problem tobacco control? Smoke-free product sales booming & cigarette sales shrinking! Forget about all $$s you’re getting from Bloomberg! Best you can hope for is to delay inevitable @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

See how Philip Morris International sells ⬆️number of smoke-free categories to ⬆️number countries! Tobacco control fighting battle they can only lose @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

New way discovered in Canada to boost cigarette sales: ban vape flavours! Thanks tobacco control! @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social reason.org/commentary/c...

Tobacco companies rich countries unstoppable structural severe ⬇️. Consumption tobacco per capita ⬇️ 59% Australia 1970-2000. Since, consumers rapid ➡️ safer smoke free products @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

This is your brain on drugs! Adapting anti cannabis propaganda to anti nicotine propaganda. #WarOnNicotine @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social

It’s just plain wrong that tobacco control supports severe restrictions on safer nicotine options while deadly cigarettes are still readily available. @algore09algor.bsky.social isn’t afraid to say that @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

WHO FCTC agreed 2003. Next 12 years BAT shares ⬆️ 6 fold! Suggest to you FCTC held back Big Tobacco? @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @clivebates.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @crikey.com.au @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Amazingly tobacco control still deny vapes & other safer smoke free nicotine products substitute for deadly cigarettes! For how much longer? @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @paulrgregoire.bsky.social

Marihuana Tax 1937 US but because impossible to pay cannabis de facto illegal. Australia sky high cigarette excise 2020s, cigarettes de facto illegal @jamomartin.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social

Looks awfully like few decades ago Norwegian women starting substituting low risk snus for deadly cigarettes? Doesn’t it? What do you think? @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

Chaired Program Committee 1992 3rd International Harm Reduction Conference, Melbourne. Invited Prof Michael Russell answer: ‘is harm reduction appropriate for tobacco?’ Looking forward now Warsaw GFN June @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social

A well deserved retraction of deeply flawed scientific paper. Amazed it took so long. So many other papers attacking tobacco harm reduction are deeply flawed @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Recent decline in prevalence of nicotine use in US is what Martin McKee & tobacco control call “addicting another generation to nicotine”! As careful with facts as DJ Trump! @profglantz.com @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Failure & futility of Australian tobacco control nostrums now there for all to see. Smoking by some measures may be increasing again. Unintended consequences of policy alarming. Partisan mainstream media silent about this. Only independent media reports it @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

“We will not decide which illicit cigarettes, tobacco & vapes come to this country & the circumstances in which they come” @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social

Vape opponents criticise unknown quality of products available from black market but ignore fact that these products virtually only available from illicit market because of quasi prohibition policies they support @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @sanho.bsky.social

Very sad APSAD Smoking & Vaping Cessation Professionals (ASVCP) in Australia now anti tobacco harm reduction & prohibitionist! Health professionals concerned re psychoactive drugs can only support not oppose harm reduction.Crazy! @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

@algore09algor.bsky.social absolutely right here! Really important! Withholding safer option or more effective treatment is always 100% unethical & unjustifiable in medicine. @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @sanho.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

After 4 major political parties New Zealand supported regulate low-risk vaping ensure more available than deadly cigarettes, decline smoking accelerated, no vape black market @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social filtermag.org/new-zealand-...

Melbourne Age reports imminent death of VicHealth “‘Stupidity': Labor luminary slams VicHealth closure plan”. Staunch supporter of sky high cigarette excise & anti vape zealots. Useful when started but now trapped in ideology @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

World changes. Congrats & grateful thanks VicHealth for what you did 20C to reduce smoking. But we now have vapes, heated tobacco & nicotine pouches which when adopted safely accelerate smoking decline. Just compare NZ vs Oz! @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Steamroller of vapes, heated tobacco products & nicotine pouches globally replacing & crushing deadly cigarettes. Estimated 180 million people now use smoke free options @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

Surely obvious now health debate re vapes just smokescreen over non issues. Whats determining outcome is very strong demand & supply for safer smoke free options for 1 billion folks who enjoy taking nicotine but want safety @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Extent to which people who use drugs want to stay safe generally underestimated. Usually don’t have safer options. But now smokers have great safer options but tobacco control works flat out to stop them switching. Why? @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social

@clivebates.bsky.social interviews Clive Bates re tobacco harm reduction & gets all his answers 100% right. Well worth reading @chancethegardener.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/clivebat...

Do you realise how rapidly safer smoke-free nicotine options are replacing deadly cigarettes globally! Phew! This stupid debate will be over soon! @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @sanho.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social

Fully justified critique of Australia’s failed & futile Groupthink nicotine policy. Ignores evidence, dreadful outcomes from sky high cigarette excise & neo prohibition of safer, smoke-free vapes. Ignores ‘nothing about us without us’ @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

0h how embarrassing for Simon! @algore09algor.bsky.social reviews evidence on 5 favourite Simon Chapman anti vaping factoids & gives each one a bad fail! @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/a-criti...

Hope-booster from colleague and chum, Arielle Selya. substack.com/@joegitchell...

& pray tell how can over the counter nicotine replacement therapy be milestone while nicotine pouches are agents of the devil? @profglantz.com @chancethegardener.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social

BAT quotes Brian King @fda.gov on far greater safety of nicotine vapes than combustible cigarettes @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @profglantz.com @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

Australia’s 2018/19 Budget anticipates $185.2bn revenue from increased cigarette excise but only $118.1bn generated as rest went to illicit cig trade @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social

Huge fines in Australia for selling illicit cigarettes or tobacco! Really? Tell ‘em they’re dreamin’ @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Australia’s tobacco control activists got everything they wanted for decades. But when everything turned pear shaped, they pretended obvious severe problems simply didn’t exist. Pride goes before fall. Collapse now inevitable. Simon’s scorn won’t save his reputation @ianamossyd.bsky.social

Opposition to tobacco harm reduction is a closed thought system impervious to evidence which contradicts their cult. USSR & satellites was another closed thought system & collapsed suddenly. That’s what will happen to THR denial. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social

Thoughtful considered response shreds anti vaping BMJ rant by Bloomberg staff @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/391/...