And as we ourselves reported last year, even FDA scientific staff say that agency leadership is intimidating them and/or forcing them to *alter* their findings and thus reject products that should have been approved -- including menthol products.
After the scathing @reaganudall audit last year, @FDATobacco promised to be more transparent. Is taking nearly two months to answer a simple question part of that "comprehensive 5-year strategic plan" CTP has been carrying on about since February?
https://t.co/KrHvrdKc2q
I love seeing lawmakers and politicians say things like
"Were using bold, evidence based policy to protect youth from the danger of vaping"
But then it's just a bunch of made up bullshit and 480K Americans still die every year from smoking cigarettes.
“We don’t need these products. We don’t want to use these products.”
~ Stacy Gogosian, Truth Initiative
No. You don't get to speak for the millions of us who DO need and want these products.
What else will "we" not need or want once nicotine is gone? Alcohol? Cannabis? CBD?
Why is vaping a more effective means of helping cigarette users quit smoking? Here's a thread:
1. Vaping is not a simple one size fits all solution, but a highly customized one.
To maximize the benefits to public health and advance the economic well-being of consumers, taxes on safer nicotine products should be kept lower than those of combustible cigarettes. @ReasonFdn@gbentley1
https://t.co/t9oUng78my
In layman's terms: those who switched to vaping had a SIGNIFICANTLY lower adverse result (40% & 50%) than those who smoked (110% & 100%) compared to never-users & previous smoking was a factor for the vapers. That's compelling "harm reduction" potential!
https://t.co/yhqeLCMT1K
After critics pointed out that the abstract documented lower stroke risk in vapers, AHA pulled the presentation from its conference without explanation.
Much moral panic about youth vaping. But a hard-nosed public health analysis shows it is a mix of experimental, transient and inconsequential OR a diversion from smoking and therefore highly beneficial.
Bravo @ColinMendelsohn for calling it👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 https://t.co/P6wTSTZNng
See, we’re gonna deliberate about whether we might start trying to think about the possibility of informing adult smokers of the simple reality that switching to vaping can save their lives. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"The real problem wasn’t the disposable exemption but the flavor ban itself..."
"Banning the myriad flavors these millions of people rely on guaranteed that a black market would sprout up to meet the demand."
~ Alli Boughner @alli_vapes
https://t.co/s5N7ySHYjd
Is it time to remove the ‘cigarette’ from ‘e-cigarette’? (The ‘e-’ is a bit old hat too)
"Encouraging the public and law-makers to cross this perceptual divide, to acknowledge that nicotine is what it was all about all along (not primarily tobacco), and then in tandem with that to recognise that the delivery system was the problem, and that nicotine itself doesn’t have to be highly risky, remains a major challenge for the sector."
https://t.co/gAhttxSVtW
Hey, @AP, we don't have millions of dollars to give you like @RWJF. But how much would it cost to arrange an AP Fact Focus that corrects all your bunk reporting on vaping?
https://t.co/ZKKzZifGBp