Phillip Kirschberg

Smoking/tobacco harm reduction advocate. WNL co-host. ASU Alumni '97 🌹 Not humorless. Personal account. I'd prefer to make the world a better place, and you?

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

Tremendous progress has been made, and you love to see it.

[Gregory Conley @GregTHR]

Skip is the first representative of the general public who doesn't actually represent mainstream tobacco control.

The four previous holders of the position:

- Scout (no first name), an anti-tobacco LGBT activist.

- Pebbles Fagan, an anti-tobacco professor engaged in tobacco research (as members of the general public do).

- Sonia Duffy, an anti-tobacco nursing professor.

- Patricia Nez Henderson, an anti-tobacco Native American activist who wants to "decolonize tobacco" and feels unsafe being in the same room as the tobacco industry.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@trumwill @BenSearsMSYS I discovered vaping in 2010, back when supplies were scarce. It took me 14 months to completely transition away from cigarettes. Then around 2015, the state of Alabama started urging people like me to pick up smoking again, and I've been politely declining their offer ever since.

[Skip Murray, DSP, TTS 🌻 @imaracingmom]

3/x
2026 marked my 11-year smoke-free celebration. I tried a tobacco-flavored vape and hated it. I quit smoking with a rainbow sherbet-flavored vape. It was manufactured by a fellow Minnesotan. @TroopaX, thank you 🙏 for creating what helped me succeed!

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@Gardner_LM @SophiaCai99 @politico As reported by @l_e_whyte @WSJ.

[Liz Essley Whyte @l_e_whyte]

NEW

The White House wants more flavored vapes. Trump promised to "save vaping" in his campaign.

But his FDA Commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, is not a fan of the idea. He blocked some recent vape flavor approvals, even though scientific staff had signed off.

🎁🔗 👇

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

Attention: @Gardner_LM and @SophiaCai99:

Regarding your recent @politico article titled, "Former FDA Head Accuses Trump Aides of Bowing to Industry," please review the relevant information provided below.

Thank you for your time.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@garyschwitzer Multiple credible sources have already confirmed that Makary acted alone and contrary to the recommendations of veteran CTP scientists in delaying the authorization of an age-gated flavored e-cigarette product developed by Glas. Please continue reading below. Thank you.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@Gardner_LM @SophiaCai99 @politico • On 1/17/26, OS Director Matthew Farrelly signed off on authorizing six items: the (Glas) device, four flavored (two menthol-flavored) pods, and one tobacco-flavored pod.

• Makary intervened even after internal reviewers recommended authorization.
https://t.co/7eUEMbRkE0

[American Vapor Manufacturers @VaporAmerican]

Everyone in the field of nicotine policy owes @MarcGunther a debt of gratitude for his intrepid, rigorous, and unflinching journalism. He has been a beacon of integrity and a champion of accountability. Happy trails, Marc, you set a high standard.
https://t.co/TCgXF6IcUB

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

@RushmoreExt23 @garyschwitzer 🎯

Makary simply turned a blind eye to the vast market in unauthorized Chinese vapes in every flavor imaginable and easily accessed by youth and initially refused to authorize an age-gated product from a small American company in order to "protect youth". 🥴

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@garyschwitzer Multiple credible sources have already confirmed that Makary acted alone and contrary to the recommendations of veteran CTP scientists in delaying the authorization of an age-gated flavored e-cigarette product developed by Glas. Please continue reading below. Thank you.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@AllenFrancesMD Trump fan, I am not; however, FDA scientists recommended authorizing flavored Glas products months before Trump got involved.

CTP documents clearly show that it was Marty Makary alone who overruled career scientists at @FDATobacco, not Trump.

https://t.co/kwX7fpfE6O

[Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @TobPolicy]

Check out the TOPS website for the video recording 🎥 from last week's presentation and Q&A with Matthew Farrelly, Director of the Office of Science at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.

https://t.co/MGDVr0GTab

[Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire]

Going to spend a big chunk of this Veterans Day doing a procedure at Duke so I'll be offline until lucid cause friends dont let friends tweet on Propofol.

This is all referrals & covered through the VA, so your tax dollars at work. Appreciate that

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

The evidence briefing embedded in this submission to WHO’s Expert Commission on Drug Dependence should be a useful reference for any consumer or public health advocate for realist tobacco and nicotine policy. Access at the link below.

H/t @jkelovuori

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

Evidence sent to the WHO review of nicotine

By @Clive_Bates

"I don’t know whether they want it or even if they’ll accept it, but the prohibitionists have had their say, so I am sending a package of reality-based evidence anyway."

https://t.co/PfOeEhx2Xe

[Phil @phil_w888]

Thankful for SMC

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

Now served with a community note.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@four4thefire Evening, AD. I'll be thinking about you tomorrow. Wishing you the very best, my friend. 💪

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@trumwill Sweet

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@trumwill You're not wrong about the refresh issue with the Android app. I would have replied sooner but TwitterX is doing so well today.

[Will Truman @trumwill]

Every week this site adds a new feature I don't care about while their Android app doesn't refresh or correctly load threads.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@beniduboss The best moments in life exist somewhere on a spectrum between howling hilarity and "Hold Fast!"

Well done, sir.

[Gregory Conley @GregTHR]

Want to get weird looks from potential employers? I authorize all of you to say that you worked for American Vaping Association, Inc. at any point from 2014 to 2022.