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You said you didn't want your friends & family to die early, you wanted to help them quit smoking.
You found a tool that could help.
You were called crazy, naive, misinformed, wrong...accused of targeting kids & even working for Big Tobacco.
You found a tool that could help.
You were called crazy, naive, misinformed, wrong...accused of targeting kids & even working for Big Tobacco.
Meanwhile, your friends & family continued to die early from lung cancer, COPD, heart disease, & strokes. They believed the fear, uncertainty, & doubt being promoted by threatened interest groups who were using this as a fundraising tool to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.
Today, in an unprecedented show of unity, the world's leading experts in tobacco control & nicotine science united to publish this call to action in @AMJPublicHealth.
It's very clear.
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210…
You were right.
It's very clear.
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210…
You were right.
I feel a thread coming on. Grab a coffee and your reading glasses. My feels are flowing.
With so much conversation about bias and disclosures I thought maybe it was time to look at my own. Why is the movement to #ChangeTheConversation and save #ABillionLives so important to me?
With so much conversation about bias and disclosures I thought maybe it was time to look at my own. Why is the movement to #ChangeTheConversation and save #ABillionLives so important to me?
I chose to enjoy some online interaction with fellow advocates last night and stayed up very late. So I already knew I'd be tired today because of lack of sleep. The little sleep I got was far from restful.
I dreamed I was in a hallway, peeking through the crack in a door. Saying, pleading, yelling...
"Hang in there bud, you got this, come back to us, please don't die! I love you, I'm here, can you hear me? TOM! It's Mom. Please hang in there".
I dreamt it over and over. 😢
"Hang in there bud, you got this, come back to us, please don't die! I love you, I'm here, can you hear me? TOM! It's Mom. Please hang in there".
I dreamt it over and over. 😢
