If progressive leaders around the world want to repair past wrongs, they can start by listening better.

After decades of raising cigarette taxes, plain packaging, & shaming, smoking still causes half of all deaths for Indigenous Australians over 45.

theguardian.com/australia-news…

https://twitter.com/OhmageA/status/1367376264328212480

For those of us who may not be familiar with the history of Indigenous Australians, here's a summary:

australianstogether.org.au/discover/austr…

For many, you know how serious it is that Indigenous Australians are being ignored & dying early from harmful government policies.

If you're curious what our guiding principles are in regards to harm reduction and tobacco, the following tweets contain the principles we developed years ago after deeply listening to pioneers in other harm reduction fields. We understand many have different goals (prohibition, tax revenue, politics, etc), but these principles are proven to work for improving the lives of our neighbors who bear the risk.

That is our mission.

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A message from our director, @Biebert: I hope you and your loved ones are doing well through all this. We wanted to give you a quick update to keep you in the loop while you navigate this difficult season.

(1/X) With CDC guidance urging venues around the US to close events into mid-May, we have no choice but to postpone our Milwaukee red carpet premiere event on May 3rd until a later date.

I am truly sorry.

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