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23 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
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/…
Public Health England

‘Nicotine use per se represents minimal risk of serious harm to physical health and … its addictiveness depends on how it is administered’

4/6
 gov.uk/government/pub…
NZ Ministry of Health

‘nicotine itself is low harm
'nicotine has little or no long-term health effects'
'it’s what comes with the nicotine that could be harmful.’

5/6
 vapingfacts.health.nz
National Health Service, UK

‘While nicotine is the addictive substance in cigarettes, it is relatively harmless’

5/6
 nhs.uk/live-well/quit…

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Colin Mendelsohn Profile picture
15 Jun
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
Colin Mendelsohn Profile picture
12 Jun
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
Colin Mendelsohn Profile picture
24 Sep 20
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
Colin Mendelsohn Profile picture
27 Jul 20
1/4 BULLSHIT ALERT

@SarahWhisar from @quitvic says the claim that vaping is 95% safer than smoking is a guesstimate from a workshop

FACT
It is based on comprehensive, peer-reviewed reviews of the scientific evidence by @RCPLondon and @PHE_uk
bit.ly/30NQ0PO
2/4 "95% safer" is a realistic evidence-based estimate to guide the public on the relative risk of vaping compared to smoking

Research shows switching
▪️dramatically reduces toxins
▪️greatly reduces toxic biomarkers of exposure
▪️improves health

athra.org.au/blog/2019/12/2…
3/4 Why don't @quitvic and @CancerCouncilOz support vaping?

▪️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

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28778971
Read 4 tweets
Colin Mendelsohn Profile picture
29 Jun 20
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!
Read 5 tweets
Colin Mendelsohn Profile picture
26 Jun 20
1/ Well, this is embarrassing!

Anti #vaping groups congratulate themselves aon the #nicotine import ban, THE DAY BEFORE it was reversed

Numerous factual errors need correction

@tobaccofreeaust @CancerCouncilOz @heartfoundation @_PHAA_

bit.ly/2ZeC1lb
2/ "tobacco industry application to relax poison controls and greenlight the sale of novelty tobacco products being heavily promoted to young people in the US"

NO. This is for heated tobacco products NOT #vaping. #HTPs have been approved by the FDA.
Please learn the difference
3/ "unfounded claims about the benefits of #ecigs in smoking cessation"

NO. The evidence is very clear that vaping is more effective than other quitting aids and could significantly reduce Australia's smoking rate
bit.ly/2Z6m804
Read 8 tweets

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