'Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded – making them the most littered item on the planet.' Dr Jonathan Livingstone-Banks and Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on why cigarette filters should be banned ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

Banning #cigarette filters would remove illusion of safety from filtered #cigs WHO advise against measures sustaining perception of reduced harm May help #quitsmoking unfiltered cigs less palatable @jlivbanks.bsky.social @jhb19.bsky.social @oxfordtag.bsky.social theconversation.com/cigarette-fi...

Isn't it time we just banned cigarette filters? theconversation.com/cigarette-fi...

Check out piece in @uk.theconversation.com on varenicline & cytisine, available but under used tools to help people #quitsmoking @jlivbanks.bsky.social of @oxfordtag.bsky.social @lionshahab.bsky.social & Dimitra Kale of @ucl-targ.bsky.social theconversation.com/two-of-the-b...

New brief piece on the terrible underuse of effective smoking cessation medications in the UK by @jlivbanks.bsky.social, Dr Dimitra Kale and myself. There’s a need to get the message out to smokers trying to quit! theconversation.com/two-of-the-b...

300 million people use smokeless tobacco, mainly in South & Southeast Asia, but limited research is driving global health inequalities🌏 Ahead of #WorldNoTobaccoDay, @jlivbanks.bsky.social's new Cochrane review outlines methods most likely to help people quit www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

The £75m Blavatnik School of Government on Walton Street, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, has been closed after an unexpected air strike by a hostile seagull. Events including a Heat Pump Summit next week have been rescheduled so that repairs can take place.

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Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v

New paper - Recommendations for future research exploring vaping and later smoking in young people. @addictionjournal.bsky.social @jhb19.bsky.social @drnlindson.bsky.social @jlivbanks.bsky.social @drsarahejackson.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: An overview of systematic reviews @jlivbanks.bsky.social @monserratconde.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @drnlindson.bsky.social @jhb19.bsky.social buff.ly/f0QgZD8

We conducted an overview of reviews on the impacts of e-cigarette flavours. Non-tobacco flavours may increase appeal & harms; this may vary by flavour & apply across different populations. Impacts of flavours on e-cig and cigarette use are inconclusive. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New game: read out the memories your ChatGPT has about you, preceding each with "your outie is...".

My dog's judging you. Sorry for that.

Received two press requests in one day (separate topics) and my immediate thought is that I'm being pranked by some transatlantic conspiracy. Do I need to work on my self esteem? Or tighten my tinfoil hat?

On the train upcountry: floods, a heron, data extraction. All just the right shade of grey. Hope London has coffee.

New Cochrane review on interventions for quitting vaping - out today! www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Writing holiday haiku:

For anyone who's planning an ironic Christmas

Wait... What? Well... #skipthequeues

When all you have is the expression "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail", everything looks like everything looking like a nail to someone who only has a hammer

So like, where can I find some power-hungry billionaires to tell me what to think?