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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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(2) 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.
(3) 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?
(5) Among ex-smokers who were previously diagnosed with asthma, almost 9 in 10 (87%) say their asthma symptoms improved. 48% say "I no longer need an inhaler."
(6) My father died, gasping for breath. That is not a good way to go. He died from #COPD after smoking 2 packs a day most of his life. I smoked, and quit with #SaferNicotine vapes. Now, almost every day, I'm accused of working for big tobacco. I hate big tobacco (see above).
(7) FACT: Smoking kills the cilia in your lungs. Healthy cilia remove debris, dust, particulates, bacteria, fungal spores, gunk.
LED candles (tea candles). No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us.
LED candles (tea candles). No combustion. Our passive protest against #COP9FCTC efforts to - literally - kill us and other #SaferNicotine user like us.
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.
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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(2) 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%.
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…
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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).
(2) Next... Unless you read this VERY carefully, you will not understand frequent use, and daily use, are given as a percentage of "current use."
(3) 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).
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…
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…