LED candles (tea candles). No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us.

From London, Day one of @MikeBloomberg-funded @WHO @FCTCofficial fiasco Image
LED candles (tea candles). No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us.

From London, Day one of @MikeBloomberg-funded @WHO @FCTCofficial fiasco. Image
LED candles. No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - very literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us, plus 1.1 billion smokers.

From London, Day one of @MikeBloomberg-funded @WHO @FCTCofficial debacle.
@INNCOorg Image
LED candles. No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - very literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us, plus 1.1 billion smokers (it's a thing they do)

From London, Day One of @MikeBloomberg-funded @WHO @FCTCofficial debacle.
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May enlightenment one day come to @MikeBloomberg, @WHO and @FCTCofficial #COP9 #COP9FCTC.

It sure ain't there yet. Image

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11 Nov
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If nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes") are, in fact, safer than smoking, and help smokers quit, they are (obviously) profoundly different from recreational drugs like alcohol, caffeine & cannabis.

So, what if we just ask ex-smokers who vape how they're doing?

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Among ex-smokers who quit by switching to nicotine vapes, 93% say their health improved. 62% say "improved dramatically." The 5% who said "no change" said "I was healthy to begin with."

Healthier. This is so different from daily screaming headlines. Image
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Among ex-smokers who quit by switching to nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes"), 90% say they now have fewer and less sever lung infections. We're healthier. Does no one care?

Confirmed by these peer-reviewed studies.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
omicsonline.org/open-access/ch… Image
Read 7 tweets
2 Nov
Lets explore @FDATobacco infographics. These data come from @CDCTobaccoFree's National Youth Tobacco Survey.

US teen nicotine vaping increased in 2018 (to twice what it is today), so FDA's infographic focused on the percentage increase.
@DrWoodcockFDA

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In 2019, US teen vaping increased again, but it's not clear WHAT they were vaping. @CDCTobaccoFree forgot to ask that in 2019, so much of this "increase" may be THC vaping, not nicotine.

This time there's a graph, huge letters saying "ALARMING," and an absolute number.
(3)
By 2020, US teen vaping had dropped 29%. This was before the pandemic hit (before schools closed).

@FDATobacco admits teen vaping dropped 1.8 million.
Daily use is obscured by hiding it under "current use." It's actually only 4.4%.

Oh. But "disposables SURGED!"
Read 12 tweets
5 Oct
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The death toll from smoking is staggering (including my own father). 8 million people die every year from smoking
who.int/news-room/fact…
...including 480,000 in the USA
cdc.gov/tobacco/data_s…
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Harm reduction can reduce that death toll, according to 15 past-Presidents of the world's leading professional society in tobacco control.
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210…

...and over 70 respected scientific and public health organizations around the world.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ty7pgR…
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Quit smoking options include nicotine patches, gum & lozenges; prescription meds; and #SaferNicotine alternatives such as nicotine vapes, #snus, nicotine pouches & HnB.

Smokers who switch to e-cigarettes reduce their risk of cancer, heart & lung disease
docs.google.com/document/d/1LX…
Read 24 tweets
29 Sep
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So... Here is the @US_FDA's original infographic. Let's take a good look at what they told the public about the National Youth Tobacco Survey 2020 (specifically March 2020, so just before the pandemic).

First, US high school vaping had dropped 29%
fda.gov/files/ctp-nyts…
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Next... Unless you read this VERY carefully, you will not understand frequent use, and daily use, are given as a percentage of "current use."
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One key to good infographics: They deliver facts clearly and need no translation.

This one from @FDATobacco needed translation. You have to do the math to find out how many US high school kids vaped frequent, or daily, in March 2020 (before the pandemic).
Read 19 tweets
28 Sep
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@truthinitiative embraces tobacco #HarmReduction, but paints it as a tobacco & vape industry plot.

11 million US adults use #SaferNicotine vapes daily/regularly to quit or reduce smoking. We don't work for industry.

@robinkoval should talk to us.
truthinitiative.org/our-top-issues…
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@truthinitiative paints tobacco #HarmReduction (THR) as a tobacco & vape industry plot.

15 past-Presidents of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco embrace THR. They are veterans of the fight against big tobacco. Not part of a "plot."
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210…
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@truthinitiative embraces tobacco #HarmReduction, but falsely claims it's a tobacco & vape industry plot.

...then falsely claims the vape market is "focused on growth and acquisition of new users, most of whom are youth and young adults."
@robinkoval
truthinitiative.org/our-top-issues…
Read 10 tweets
7 Sep
Drug Abuse Resistence Education (D.A.R.E.)

A school-based education program. How well did it work? In 2001, US @Surgeon_General David Satcher placed the D.A.R.E. program in the category of "Ineffective Primary Prevention Programs."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abus…

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School-based drug "education" mistake, now being repeated with vaping.

1992: "Researchers at Indiana University found that those who completed the D.A.R.E. program subsequently had significantly higher rates of hallucinogenic drug use than those not exposed to the program."
(3) The school-based drug "education" mistake, now being repeated with vaping.

1994: RTI researchers found the program was ineffective. So D.A.R.E. leaders tried to get publication of the findings blocked.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abus…
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