Justine from Kangaroo Pt, Brisbane smoked 30 #cigs a day for 35y
✅“within 2 weeks of #vaping I could breathe and sing again”
✅“instead of Ventolin every 2 hours I take it maybe once weekly”
✅“I have stopped my preventer”
✅“my cough has gone”
✅“no more chest infections”
✅“my asthma has completely gone since I started vaping”
✅“my asthma is much better”
✅“my asthma has substantially improved”
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But Lung Foundation Australia (who have blocked me) + @AsthmaAustralia want them to keep smoking! Why?
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
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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
-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
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
▪️Smoking is the largest risk factor for cancer
▪️Vaping is estimated to be <0.5% the cancer risk of smoking
▪️Most of the carcinogens in smoke are absent from vapour or in very small amounts
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!