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Jun 29, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read Read on X
1/ @SimonChapman6 was on @abccanberra this morning with @adammshirley creating fear and confusion about #vaping. Let me clarify a few points.

Starts 17m20s
abc.net.au/radio/canberra…
2/ "We don’t know what the long-term consequences are going to be”

It is beyond reasonable doubt that #vaping will be far less risky than smoking. @RCPLondon estimates that the long-term risk is likely to be no more than 5% of the risk of smoking
3/ “Very easy to get nicotine for #vaping from the doctor”

Actually no. The process is
▪️Complex & time-consuming for GPs
▪️Delayed by @TGAgovau approval
▪️Importing by a 3rd party
▪️Import permit needed
▪️Much more costly

It will be easier to go next door and buy a cigarette!
4/ "It took 40 years before the risks of smoking were known"

If cigarettes were invented today, we would know immediately that they were deadly. There has been huge progress in medical and analytical science since then. We have detailed knowledge of the toxicology of vapour.
5/ "Potential for addictive nicotine to get tens of millions of people into its clutches"

Almost all people who #vape are former smokers already addicted to nicotine. Vaping nicotine is less addictive than smoking. Nicotine dependence from vaping is rare in young non-smokers.

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More from @ColinMendelsohn

May 30, 2023
🧵1/9
Everyone agrees young people should not #vape or smoke
However, the current fear and panic about youth vaping is not based on the evidence, according to our paper published today in @ijdrugpolicy
Co-author Prof Wayne Hall

colinmendelsohn.com.au/youth/
🧵2/9
In adolescents who have never smoked most #vaping is occasional and short-term
Frequent vaping in this group is uncommon: 1-2% in most international surveys eg England ⤵️ Image
🧵3/9
Rather than being a gateway into smoking, #vaping is diverting young people AWAY from smoking overall. Increased vaping is accompanied by an accelerated decline in youth smoking
Eg in the US ⤵️ Image
Read 10 tweets
May 29, 2023
🧵1/4
41 leading tobacco control and addiction experts from Australia and NZ have written an open letter to Health Minister @Mark_Butler_MP asking him to reconsider the proposal to further restrict access to nicotine #vaping
colinmendelsohn.com.au/butler-4/
🧵2/4
Their concern is that
“this approach will have serious and harmful unintended consequences for public health, will slow the decline in smoking and will ultimately be unsuccessful”
🧵3/4
The experts say that "a well-designed adult consumer regulatory model is most likely to achieve the two goals we all seek, i.e., making vaping products available as a quitting aid for adults who smoke and minimising access by young people"
Read 5 tweets
Sep 23, 2021
WARNING. AUSTRALIAN nicotine is extremely toxic!

According to @TGAgovau's latest advice

'Nicotine is a poisonous substance'
'There are significant health risks associated with nicotine use

We should get the safe nicotine that other countries use...

1/6
tga.gov.au/nicotine-vapin…
UK Royal College of Physicians

‘Use of nicotine alone, in the doses used by smokers, represents little if any hazard to the user’

2/6
rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outpu…
UK Royal Society for Public Health

‘Tobacco contains nicotine along with many other chemicals, but nicotine by itself is fairly harmless.’

3/6
rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/…
Read 6 tweets
Jun 15, 2021
Appalling journalism @dailytelegraph

'Vape Craze, A Real Drag' 11 June 2021

Gross misinformation from 2 anti-vaping activists. No pro-vaping expert consulted to challenge or correct

No response to my letter to editor to fix it, so here are my corrections

Pls share

Thread...
1/ 'Switching has not been shown to reduce proven health harms’

Response
NASEM 18-2: 'There is substantial evidence that completely switching from ... cigarettes to #ecigs results in reduced short-term adverse health outcomes in several organ systems'
nap.edu/24952
Read 7 tweets
Jun 12, 2021
Good to see some balance in this article with some commonsense from @AlexWodak

However still some serious misinformation
FYI @janehansen2000
1. #vaping is not a Big Tobacco plot

-BT did not invent vaping
-Vapes are a direct competitor to cigarettes and are a huge disruptive threat to the industry
-BT is mostly focussed on #HTPs
-If BT switches from #cigs to #ecigs, that is good for public health. vaping is 95% safer
2. Popcorn lung has been long discredited

There has never been a single case of 'popcorn lung' from vaping or smoking, and diacetyl levels are hundreds of times higher in smoke than vapour

@CRUKLondon laid this to rest years ago
bit.ly/3iBt6Wk
Read 9 tweets
Sep 24, 2020
1/There is so much wrong with this article

▪️Only anti-vaping views quoted
▪️Extensive misinformation not challenged
▪️No alternative views offered

Can I have a right of reply @Dana_Adele

Thread...
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
2/ nicotine is highly addictive

The addictiveness of nicotine depends on how it is delivered. Smoking is highly addictive due to rapid nicotine delivery and other chemicals in smoke. Vaping is significantly less addictive than smoking
3/ doctors should be focused on getting people off cigarettes and nicotine completely

Ideally yes. But many smokers can't quit nicotine and switching to a safer alternative is lifesaving. The focus of #THR is reducing disease, not ceasing nicotine

bit.ly/3iZko1F
Read 14 tweets

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