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Charles A. Gardner, PhD Profile picture
@ChaunceyGardner
Jul 28, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us? (1/13)
HEALTHIER
2/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
FEWER LUNG INFECTIONS
3/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
FEWER COPD SYMPTOMS
4/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
FEWER ASTHMA SYMPTOMS
5/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
IMPROVED ORAL HEALTH
6/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
LUNG FUNCTION JUST FINE THANK YOU
7/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
VAPE SHOPS WERE HELPING SMOKERS QUIT (UNTIL THEY WERE SHUT DOWN)
8/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
VAPE SHOPS ARE SHUTTING DOWN, REDUCING ACCESS
9/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
BANS WILL CAUSE MANY TO RELAPSE TO SMOKING
10/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
FLAVOR BANS WILL CAUSE 12% TO RELAPSE TO SMOKING
11/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
MANY RELAPSE TO SMOKING BECAUSE OF *PUSHED* MISINFORMATION
12/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
MOST DUAL USERS ARE "ON THE JOURNEY" TO QUIT
13/13
9 in 10 frequent vapers are ADULT ex-smokers. What if someone just asked us how we're doing, and how bans and regulations affect us?
MANY "QUIT BY ACCIDENT." (NO ONE EVER QUIT-BY-ACCIDENT WITH A NICOTINE PATCH OR GUM.)

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Charles A. Gardner, PhD Profile picture
Dec 14
According to the most recent US @Surgeon_General Report on tobacco, "cigarettes kill 490,000 Americans every year." That seems bad.

The USSG did not write "tobacco products." He wrote "CIGARETTES": Mass-produced combustible tobacco cigarettes.
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2/13
25 million US adults smoke. Cigarettes shorten the lives of 50% of lifelong smokers by 10 years. 99% of deaths are over the age of 50.

Those deaths are due to:
36% cancer (29% lung cancer)
36% cardiovascular disease
21% COPD Image
3/13
Funny thing happened after nicotine vapes entered the US market 18 years ago. Adult vaping skyrocketed and smoking plummeted.

The media ignores adults and focuses on teen vaping. That went up, down, up and then WAY DOWN to a 10-year low... while teen smoking dropped 90%.
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Aug 18
LONG THREAD: What happens when people switch from traditional cigarettes to nicotine vapes?

Does their risk of cancer, heart and/or lung disease increase or decrease? 10,000 scientific studies on e-cigarettes over the past decade. So no shortage of answers.
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2/25
First let's set the stage. Cigarette smoking is the starting point.

Here is a breakdown of cigarette smoking-related deaths: 36% cancer; 36% cardiovascular disease; 21% lung.

Lung cancer was the first evidence cigarettes kill half of all users. Image
3/25
Cigarettes kill 480,000 Americans every year. They kill 8 million every year worldwide. Super bad.

Nicotine vapes are controversial. They entered the US market 18 years ago in 2007. Long enough to see the impact of product substitution on lung cancer. Image
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Aug 29, 2024
Imagine if 7.7% of teens eat ice cream at least once in the past 30 days.

The field of Ice Cream Control calls that "current use."

This number has dropped 61% over the past 4 years.

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90% of "current ice cream eaters" ate 'flavored' ice cream.
10% ate coffee flavored ice cream.

For some strange reason, the field of Ice Cream Control calls artificial coffee flavor "unflavored."

25% of "current ice cream eaters" ate it daily.Image
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Daily ice cream use is associated with teen obesity (which actually IS epidemic)

7.7% x 25% = 1.9%

So only 1.9% ate ice cream daily and may become obese. Which is hardly any, and down 61% from 4 years ago.

Obesity causes heart disease, diabetes and cancer deaths. Image
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Aug 14, 2024
Milestones in vaping history
2019: US-only outbreak of vape-related lung injuries caused by adulterated illicit THC vapes.

@CDCTobaccoFree deliberately blames this on legal nicotine vapes. Invents acronym "E-cigarette or Vaping-Related Lung Injuries" (EVALI).
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While @CDCTobaccoFree continues to claim "EVALI" is caused by nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes"), numerous state health departments are telling a very different story.
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In mid- to late 2019, SOMEONE alarted local law inforcement to crack down on illicit THC vape cart dealers.








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Charles A. Gardner, PhD Profile picture
Apr 17, 2024
Welcome to How to Lie with Percentages 101
This seems like a minor point in @FDATobacco Director King's recent Op/Ed in Nature. Here is a quote:

"In 2021, 11.3% of high-school students used e-cigarettes, compared with 4.5% of adults."

It's misleading in 4 ways.
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First, it's not 2021 anymore. The latest data from the @CDCgov NYTS and NHIS surveys are easily available to the authors.

In 2023, 10% of US high school students vape nicotine "at least once in the past month." And 7% of adults do so "daily or some days."
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2nd, why high school? The 2023 average for all US middle and high school students is 7.7%.


7.0% of all US adults vape nicotine as of Q3 2023.


Very similar. How awkward is THAT?cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
wwwn.cdc.gov/NHISDataQueryT…
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Apr 2, 2024
Humans have been burning leaves of the tobacco plant, and inhaling the smoke, for well over 8,000 years now.

It had ceremonial purposes, presumably when nicotine's psychoactive effects were needed: increased focus, attention and memory.

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 For thousands of years, tobacco leaf smoking was only a thing in the Americas.

In the Old World plenty of people smoked, but not tobacco leaves. THEY smoked cannabis or opium.


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 Then THIS guy, Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), brought tobacco leaves back to England from the New World.

He was beheaded in 1618... but not for smoking. The Spanish Ambassador demanded it, so King James approved it.

Smoking caught on in England and the Old World. Image
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