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Mar 15 • 19 tweets • 16 min read
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I encourage both of my communities to join hands across the ideological divide to pursue our common cause of combatting illness and saving lives by preventing tobacco use by young people and helping adult smokers quit smoking.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
#ChangeTheConversation
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 #TheSRNTfifteen
The public health objective should be to develop policies and interventions that both reduce youth vaping and increase adult smoking cessation.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.21…
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 Most scientists would agree that balancing the risks and benefits of e-cigarettes for the individual cigarette smoker is critically important. Most would also agree that tobacco-naive youths should not start using e-cigs...
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…
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 Our hope, candidly, is given the origins of this paper, and the authorship of the paper, that it will draw some serious attention
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
filtermag.org/tobacco-contro…
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 Still, the letter is a relatively balanced response and can be read as a rare olive branch
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@Alex_Norcia
filtermag.org/common-ground-…
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 Leading tobacco scientists call for a more balanced approach to e-cigarettes. It’s a matter of social justice, they say.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@MarcGunther
medium.com/the-great-vape…
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 We believe the potential lifesaving benefits of e-cigarettes for adult smokers deserve attention equal to the risks to youths. Millions of middle-aged and older smokers are at high risk of near-future disease and death.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@AGIowa
iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/fda-e…
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 In my 45 years in the field of tobacco control research, I’ve never seen an issue that is as divisive as this one; and maybe none that is as important to public health.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
news.umich.edu/current-focus-…
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 The document is a far cry from a free market manifesto but is a welcome challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy among many public health groups...
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@gbentley1
reason.com/2021/08/20/ant…
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 ...the line between righteousness and public health is blurring. All too easily, then, public health can suffer rather than benefit.
@SRNT2022 #Preconference
@ConscienHealth
conscienhealth.org/2021/08/blurri…
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 How do you create balance when research funding priorities largely benefit studies that confirm negative views of ENDS, or when the stigma that has been attached to a THR approach causes institutions to avoid any association?
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
nicotinepolicy.net/blogs/guest-bl…
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 "To date, the singular focus of U.S. policies on decreasing youth vaping may well have reduced vaping’s potential contribution to reducing adult smoking."
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@Jamie_Ducharme
time.com/6094858/fda-e-…
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 An additional, and quite profound concern is the rampant politicization of the current debate...
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@cdoug
medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
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 The stalled decline in adult smoking rates gets little attention in academic journals.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@DrCherylOlson
tobaccoreporter.com/2021/10/01/tam…
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 Early divisions among public health experts led to polarized coverage in the media, confused messages to the public, and inconsistent policymaking between jurisdictions.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
@SwitchFinder
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…
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 Today many experts in tobacco control and public health will be discussing ways to find #CommonGround. My hope is that they will.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
srnt.org/page/2022_Pre-…
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 I hope they can renew the efforts to settle the debate about nicotine's place in society. I hope we get back to saving the lives of people who smoke. I wrote about this here: mommavape.blogspot.com/2022/02/change…
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
#ChangeTheConversation
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 My disclosures:
I used to smoke. Vaping helped me quit smoking.
I used to own a vape shop and help people in my community quit smoking and never go back.
I never failed an age verification compliance check.
#SRNT2022 #Preconference
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 Misinformation contributed to me going out of business.

I encourage everyone to listen to the other side. There are good people with good intentions on all sides. #BeKind

#SRNT2022 #Preconference
medium.com/the-great-vape…

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I remember how excited I was a year ago when @cdoug Tweeted his statement about how we need to #ChangeTheConversation about #THR and #Smoking. His latest tweet reminds me that his voice is one of many. This gives me hope.
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"The debate is heated, driven as much by emotions and philosophies as by facts. One hopes that the debate will move to an evidence-based discussion as research fleshes out the factual basis for evaluating the roles of these novel products."

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“We must not focus our efforts so narrowly on preventing tobacco use by youth that we send smokers the message that we have abandoned them -- that their addiction is their own fault and that we don't care about them.”

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45 minutes to go. The last time we had this high of sales was March of 2019. Thanks to all of you and your amazing tweets I have emotionally kept it together all day. I have been able to greet every customer in a cheerful way and express confidence they will be ok.
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It amused me so much, I had to send a link to it to the person it made me think of.

And that one silly little thing, and the giggle it causes was enough to lesson the depression by several degrees.
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Tonight I succeeded at being the nice wife, instead of the bitchy one I keep turning into each evening for the past several days.

And yet, at random times, I bust out in tears. It's like I crawl 1/2 out of the dark hole and then slide back in.
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It has taken me months, but the good news is I've finally moved past denial.
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The bad news is I woke up in full blown anger and I'm a hot mess. I've never handled anger well. Not other people's and not mine. Other people's anger makes me feel fear. I know pain is coming, be it physical or emotional, I know angry people are going to hurt me.
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You'd think after so much experience on the receiving end of people's anger, I'd be better at dealing with my own. Nope, it is a source of failure for me. I either bottle it up and cry, lash out at people, or do and say really stupid things.
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