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[Alan Beard @Alan_Beard1]

The inexplicable twitter suspension of Alan Gore @Algore09algor should be reviewed by @X @Support as a matter of urgency.
There can be no genuine reasoning for his suspension, his posts were informative, non-sweary and contained well argued talking points. I suspect that some opponents(of his erudite messaging) may well have filed some co-ordinated complaints in an attempt to silence him. *If* that is the case, that will ultimately bring about the downfall of this platform where well crafted opinions will no longer be allowed to be posted. Examine if that could have been the case?

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

@NannyFreeState @KulikovUNIATF @FCTCofficial To WHO and the rest of its fellow travellers…

It’s time to ask the big question “Are we the baddies?”

Is tobacco control the new Big Tobacco? It certainly looks that way…

https://t.co/r6DplUMX5x

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

Like everything from WHO, that is an idiotic and misleading presentation of vaping. Seven things you ought to know:

1. Worldwide, there are vastly more adults than youth who vape. Your data is profoundly misleading.

2. Many of the young people who take up vaping would otherwise have smoked. So for them, it’s a huge health win. The use of nicotine is migrating to safer products. You ignore this.

3. People will continue to use nicotine whether you approve or not. Once you can find the humility to accept that, the challenge is how to make it acceptably safe and lawful. You don’t understand this basic point.

4. Most of WHO’s prohibitionist policy proposals lead straight to illicit trade and nurture exploitative organised criminal networks. You ignore the evidence: 75% of vape sales worldwide are now illicit. Your big idea is to extend this criminal windfall to pouches.

5. Young people are drawn into criminal networks as suppliers and are exposed to other illegal goods and services, and are introduced to criminality. WHO is the vector of criminalisation and youth exploitation in this marketplace.

6. WHO continues to be captured by narrow interest groups and billionaire foundations, while showing idle contempt for the health of over 1 billion people at serious risk from smoking related disease. You are smug and righteous but wrong about everything.

7. WHO and the people you have copied on your facile misinformation post ought to be ashamed of their role as defenders of the cigarette trade and promoters of organised crime.

It’s no wonder the organisation is in terminal decline. You have done this.

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

NZ was next in line to reduce smoking to 5% or below. But the lies about vaping — misleading people to believe vaping is as bad or worse than smoking 🚬, and the nonsensical Labour-led ideologically-driven ban on oral nicotine pouches (no tobacco in them, no smoke, no 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th-hand effects on anyone else or their pets or their carpet — just people stopping smoking) has stalled NZ’s position in the race. We went from being Speedy Gonzales to running the gauntlet. So here we are, folks…
— into the final lap of the great Smoke-Free Race, with that magical 5% tape just ahead! Sweden at 4.8% has crossed the line and they’re waving to the crowd!
New Zealand is still in the leading group but… oh dear, they’ve dropped to a stroll at 6.8% and Iceland has pushed ahead of them around the 6% mark. Without a sideways glance at NZ, Norway is eyes on going for the silver medal at 7–8%. And look 👀 — the UK and Finland were running together around the 10–13% mark… but who is this surprise coming from behind?
📣 It’s the USA at 9.9%! Under 10% for the first time… they’ve just squeaked past the UK and Finland on the inside!
What a race, ladies and gentlemen — Sweden out in front celebrating, the Kiwis appear distracted, and the rest of the pack’s closing fast as we head for that 5% finish line!

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

It gets tiresome when family, friends and even strangers on the street go on at you ‘oh why are you vaping? It’s as bad as smoking you know.’ Mothers are having a cry because their grown sons are vaping. Some GPs acknowledge smoking is dropping but ‘now people are vaping. That’s not good either.’ Or worse, people make fun of you, look at you like you’re an idiot. Anti-nicotine researchers keep getting funding to pump out weak biased op eds and so-called scientific studies. Now they’re running quit vaping trials (at $NZ 1.3+ million minimum per study). 🤦🏻‍♀️ Meanwhile, 1.1 billion people smoke tobacco worldwide; over 6 million die each year from smoking-related diseases! Helping people who want to stop smoking 🚬 should be the priority, but there’s a new shiny gravy train and lots of gullible philanthropists, policymakers and politicians who are easy to manipulate with scaremongering and old War-On-Drug alarmism =💰💰

[Janine Timmons 🇨🇦 @grayjaynine]

@CoalitionTabac @CBCMarina The country's staggering youth vaping rate? That's interesting considering the most current Cdn stats show a 60% decrease in youth vaping. Smoking among youth is at an all-time low. Where are all the new youth smokers caused by the gateway effect? Non-existant.

[NNAlliance @NNAlliance]

"Treating reduced risk nicotine products in the same way [as smoking] is not based on evidence of harm, is overly coercive, and sends the wrong message that HTPs and vapes are as harmful as smoking." @Drug_Science's consultation response available here. https://t.co/a8THDByjwy

[Martin C @NannyFreeState]

Always the same result. Quebec bans flavoured vapes and 36 per cent of vapers have turned back to cigarettes. It’s so obvious now that we must assume policymakers who ignore this outcome do so deliberately. #NotAboutHealth https://t.co/n1ehwkBnHN

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

New: England's proposed anti-vaping policy casually tramples over basic rights

There's no "right to vape", but property owners have the right to decide their vaping policy unless the government justifies overriding them. @DHSCgovuk has not made a case.
https://t.co/JlebFxlc7w

[Richard Pruen @PruenRichard]

@ChaunceyGardner At last, it seems they have finally got the message.

We’ve been trying to tell them since 2010, the delay is saddening because thousands have died waiting for advice on the continuum of risk.

[Clearing the Air @clearingthe_air]

EXPOSED: How researchers built a "horror narrative out of thin air." 📰 The latest study claiming vapes fill your lungs with toxic metal is full of missing data, outdated tech, and zero proof of actual human harm. Stop falling for the media spin: https://t.co/xeVn39WRbU

[NNAlliance @NNAlliance]

Smokefree laws were designed for smoke. Including vaping risks undermining harm reduction.

Confusing the two could have real consequences for people trying to move away from smoking 🚭➡️💨

Visit https://t.co/I0esR5VZhD and take part in the government consultation📢✍️

[Martin C @NannyFreeState]

"Denying ... people access to less harmful alternatives does not protect health – it prolongs exposure to the most dangerous form of nicotine-delivery products." Two former @WHO Directors write about how the global tobacco control industry is failing. https://t.co/OqRQuZEvu3

[Clearing the Air @clearingthe_air]

Internal FDA scientists recommended approving flavoured vapes because they help smokers quit. But senior leadership buried the science and blocked the approvals anyway! 🤯 Now the White House is getting involved, gear up for the latest battle... https://t.co/bMTzHKuCCZ

[Martin C @NannyFreeState]

I've written at @Filtermag_org about how only those gullible enough to believe bad science think vapes cause cancer. https://t.co/QaSGtM7dja

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

Serious governments have to continually negotiate a social contract with the electorate, which will throw them out if they abuse their powers and hurt people for nothing. @wesstreeting can’t fix the NHS, so he is drawn to vacuous gesture politics like an indoor vaping ban.

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

The government has the burden of proof to show a legitimate purpose before entering private property and telling owners what to do. It has to demonstrate a market failure or public health imperative that justifies its intervention. No such justification has been or can be made.

[NNAlliance @NNAlliance]

What’s the real case for banning vaping in public? 🤔

As @Clive_Bates points out, the argument simply doesn’t stack up 📉

Find out more and have your say in the consultation 👇
https://t.co/01mweGMNCZ

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

At the heart of tobacco harm reduction is the aggregate effect of millions of stories like this. And millions more to come, including those diverted from smoking uptake. It takes a special kind of failure of empathy and humility to declare this a public health catastrophe.

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

It’s not just retractions - also dissonant evidence. The convincing quasi-experimental economic evidence that vape flavour bans causally increase smoking has not led to any flavour ban policy reversals to my knowledge. Legislation prone to plausible unintended consequences should have review and sunset clauses.