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[Donald Iocco @DonaldIocco]

@BeckyLynchWWE Little Seth is soo cute 🥰

[John Truncali @TruncaliJohn]

The fact that #FDA doesn’t understand that adults enjoy flavors makes me laugh. As adults we don’t stop liking flavors 🤣🤌 Just stand in line at any #Starbucks and listen to what adults are ordering 🤔🤣 And i’m willing to bet there are a few adults that still enjoy a bowl of Cocoa Puffs 🥣🥰

#Harmreduction #vape #altın #smokers

[American Vapor Manufacturers @VaporAmerican]

"Could we talk about tobacco harm reduction for a second?"

[Nyah Phengsitthy @nyahphengsitthy]

Wages and White Lion v. FDA returns to the Fifth Circuit tomorrow for oral arguments. SCOTUS last year upheld FDA’s marketing denial orders for flavored e-cigs at issue, but remanded the case back to the appeals court to reconsider harmless-error standard.

[John Truncali @TruncaliJohn]

What does the FDA stand to lose if vaping succeeds?

Not funding. Not authority.

What it could lose is credibility.

If vaping continues to prove itself as a significantly lower-risk alternative to smoking, many Americans will ask why public health agencies spent years blurring the distinction between combustible cigarettes and smoke-free nicotine products.

Critics argue the FDA has often prioritized fear of youth vaping over the potential benefits for millions of adult smokers trying to quit cigarettes.

The result? Many smokers now mistakenly believe vaping is just as harmful—or even more harmful—than smoking.

If harm reduction ultimately saves millions of lives, the toughest question won't be whether vaping was risk-free.

It will be: Did public health provide smokers with accurate, balanced information when it mattered most?

Smokers deserve facts. Not slogans. Not scare campaigns. Facts.

#Vaping #HarmReduction #PublicHealth #FDA #Smoking #TobaccoHarmReduction #Nicotine #QuitSmoking

[Gregory Conley @GregTHR]

Adults like flavors. Maybe they shouldn't.

[John Truncali @TruncaliJohn]

When public health agencies fail to clearly distinguish between smoking and vaping, the result is confusion—not education.
Many Americans now wrongly believe vaping is just as harmful as smoking, despite evidence showing substantial differences in toxicant exposure and risk.
Facts matter:
✅ Smoking kills hundreds of thousands of Americans.
✅ Vaping is not risk-free.
✅ Multiple public health agencies acknowledge vaping is significantly less harmful than smoking.
✅ Adult smokers deserve accurate information about lower-risk alternatives.

Smokers deserve honest information, not messaging that treats all nicotine products as if they're the same.

#Vaping #HarmReduction #FDA #PublicHealth #TobaccoHarmReduction #Nicotine #ScienceMatters
#EvidenceBased #AdultChoice
#RiskReduction

[MyopicEeyore @MyopicEeyore]

Bessent is so good at this. Congressmen are not worthy of respect and they should be openly humiliated.

Bessent is also an atypical GOP cabinet appointee. Note that “norm respecter” Mitt Romney fired Rick Grenell from a minor campaign advisory position because he has sex with men.

By contrast, the “fascist,” “anti LGBT” President Trump appointed an openly gay man to the most important cabinet position.

In this pride month, it is time to thank President Trump for tapping this vein of elite human capital and promoting the acceptance of gay men at the highest levels of our government.

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

The always engaging Maria @papaioannoy: pharmacy model of nicotine pouches doesn't work; some rural Canadians live 500km away from the nearest pharmacy,while cigarettes are available everywhere #GFN26

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

@papaioannoy @DavidSweanor and @papaioannoy talk about how vape shop owners cannot legally share scientific facts about relative risk without risking 18 months in federal prison and/or a $500,000 fine

[Jesse Watters @JesseBWatters]

🚨 BREAKING: CALIFORNIA HELD AN ELECTION— AND NOBODY KNOWS WHO WON 😳

DAYS LATER, the Governor's race is STILL stuck in BALLOT-COUNTING LIMBO 😵‍💫

Florida counts 8 MILLION VOTES before BEDTIME—California can't finish ONE CITY IN A WEEK 🤦

NEWSOM’S ELECTION SYSTEM IS BECOMING A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT🔥

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

Juan José Cirión Lee talks about the human right to harm reduction and his work protesting prohibition of e-cigarettes in Mexico #GFN26

[John Truncali @TruncaliJohn]

One of the funniest parts of being a vaping advocate is watching people read a clickbait anti-vaping headline and immediately appoint themselves as experts.

They don't read the study. They don't check the data. They don't understand the methodology. But somehow, they're suddenly FDA field analysts, toxicologists, epidemiologists, and public health experts all rolled into one.

A headline isn't a degree, but you'd never know it from the comments section.

#thinkingoutloud #Vaping #HarmReduction #PublicHealth #fda #whitehouse #junkscience

[Gregory Conley @GregTHR]

The activism of the various body part groups tend to blend together, but it's really not said often enough how much more extreme the American Lung Association is than others.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Notice how there’s not a single “pride month” edition biopic, interview, puff piece, magazine cover, brave-and-stunning award, or daytime talk-show segment for the first gay Treasury Secretary.

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

Academic mobbing — this is absolutely what happened to me. The people in academia and public health described below by @GadSaad went beyond their universities’ walls onto social media and beyond. They manipulated any professional society they could influence, scientific journals, scientific conferences… They got the media to write hit pieces based on their lies. When I was nominated for the New Zealander of The Year Supreme Award in 2019, they wrote to the independent Awards Committee demanding the nomination be withdrawn! They lobbied the government’s Ministry of Health to ban all communication with me! And the Director General did it! No one who worked in publicly funded health was allowed to talk to me, or read my scientific work. The large majority - hundreds of people I had worked with, trained, travelled with and met obeyed. Everyone learned that if they ever disagreed - they’d get “Marewa’d” — Yes! That became a word. My competitors wrote their own fictional account of a character they hoped everyone would hate - an evil witch who needed to be destroyed, and they gave their nemesis my name. It was like having my identity stolen.
We don’t have academic freedom in New Zealand @NZFreeSpeech and less and less do we have public servants. Too many government ministry officials and staff are there for personal gain and to misuse the public institutions to further their own political and ideological agendas, as the current coalition government is discovering every day. The “blob” as @trussliz described them are undermining democracy. They are sabotaging New Zealand’s progress. It’s time for a clean out. @CaseyCostelloMP @NewZealandMFA

[Lindsey Stroud @lmstroud89]

Dr. Glover is spot on this.

To this day, lawmakers still accuse me of being a Big Tobacco shill... and if ya saw THR101's budget, you'd know that furthest from the truth.

We both believe in this awesome technology.

I got your back girl. Thanks for being a steadfast advocate.

[John Truncali @TruncaliJohn]

The Vaping Story: Lies & Betrayal

How long can @US_FDA and @CDCgov keep selling this narrative?

The bigger question isn't whether mistakes were made—it's who they'll blame when the truth finally comes out. Who becomes the scapegoat? The pawn sacrificed in the chess game?

A former FDA Commissioner? A former CTP Director? An unknown toxicologist, chemist, epidemiologist, or pharmacologist? Maybe they'll point the finger at a previous White House administration.

When the reckoning comes, someone will be asked to take the fall.

Step right up—or run and hide. Either way, we all know it's coming.

#Vaping #HarmReduction #PublicHealth #fda #whitehouse #junkscience

[Donald Iocco @DonaldIocco]

@AliciaAtout @The_MJF Good job @The_MJF beating that Emo Bitch. My Champion, My Scumbag.

[Gregory Conley @GregTHR]

New from @JeffaStier:

"[The NY Times] omitted the most relevant fact, one that The Wall Street Journal reported weeks earlier: Mr. Makary had overruled his own agency’s scientists, who recommended authorizing certain age-gated flavored e-cigarettes."
https://t.co/u0hUE1fXyz