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[stop blowing smoke @harmreduced]

„Während die Welt weiterhin gegen das Rauchen kämpft, bietet Schweden ein Modell an, das die Luft auf wissenschaftliche und praktische Weise zugleich reinigt.“

Verfasst : Dr. Carl Fagerstrom, außerordentlicher Professor und Forscher für Tabak und Nikotin.
https://t.co/fBc8Q9ewPe

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

Australia's illicit tobacco problem has been solved! 🥳

[Sir Didymus (guardian of the mythical gateway) @wooldorsockbatt]

Why can't @Algore09algor say hi himself?
@x @Support

[JamesR @JCRDarwin]

And another day goes by @X @Support @premium @nikitabier @elonmusk

The suspension of a paying subscriber, @Algore09algor, without any explanation is unconscionable

Please review the suspension immediately and reinstate the account as soon as possible

No rules have been broken

[Sir Didymus (guardian of the mythical gateway) @wooldorsockbatt]

This is still happening....

[Peggy with E-Cig Source @ECigSourceFL]

Do you want to learn more? Check out the blog below for a beginners' "Do's" and "Don'ts" guide. 

https://t.co/xVU9vB7dMs

[Peggy with E-Cig Source @ECigSourceFL]

What's the most common mistake new customers make when choosing a device?

Buying based on looks instead of usage habits.

Here's what we recommend customers consider first 🧵

[Vaping Advocacy & Education Project @VAEPinfo]

Misinformation about vaping puts lives at risk and lets governments restrict harm reduction. VAEP shares science-based facts to empower you to make informed choices and challenge the myths. Everyone deserves the truth.

Learn more: https://t.co/MwB2IjKxaV

#VAEP #HarmReduction

[Vaping Advocacy & Education Project @VAEPinfo]

In 2019, lung injuries were linked to vitamin E acetate (VEA) in illicit THC cartridges and not found in nicotine eliquid. Despite VEA in every biopsy, this respirologist still blamed eliquid. Misinformation risks lives. Get the facts: https://t.co/ETsSat12mQ #VAEP #VapeEducation

[🇦🇺 Northern Territory Consumers for THR @VaperNt]

Australian government failure

Murders, firebombings, innocent deaths, billions in profit to crime groups

The true cost of cheap cigarettes

https://t.co/zXYufITt0y

[VapingIT, SPE, EEI @Vapingit]

Remember in 2019... when @ErinKingSweeney, former Hempstead Town Councilwoman in New York, posted this... and eventually deleted her account?

I'll let you soak (or bask) in the irony of how idiotic these people, and others like her (still) are with this old example.

[Dr James Martin @jamomartin]

Whoa. According to newly released figures from the ABS, in Dec 2025 a staggering 80% of tobacco sold in Australia was illicit!

Perhaps it's time to listen to someone other than the tobacco control prohibitionists who got us into this mess? #auspol

https://t.co/h77nethsK2

[Bludn Gore (Supervisor) @Bludn_Gore]

This is what happens when you follow the @WHO and @FCTCofficial's MPOWER!

Absolutely disastrous consequences!!!!

[Bludn Gore (Supervisor) @Bludn_Gore]

https://t.co/nXQ6BfX2tr

This article exposes the failure of Australia's nicotine policy.
On one hand, we're told the crackdown is working because shops are closing.
On the other, we're told sellers have simply moved online, to home delivery networks, WhatsApp groups, private residences, hairdressers, tyre shops and countless other channels.
That isn't a market disappearing. That's a market adapting.
Even the researchers quoted acknowledge there will "always be a level of illicit trade", while the convenience sector reports customers briefly returning to legal products before quickly shifting back to the black market.
The reason is obvious.
Demand hasn't disappeared.
People still want nicotine.
When legal cigarettes cost three, four or five times more than illicit products, and access to regulated safer alternatives remains heavily restricted, consumers will continue finding other sources.
The article also highlights another uncomfortable reality: tobacco tax revenue is projected to collapse from around $16 billion to just $2.1 billion by 2030.
At some point policymakers need to ask whether they are winning a public health battle or simply pushing the market further underground.
You cannot enforce away consumer demand.
And you cannot keep celebrating seizures and shop closures while simultaneously admitting the black market keeps evolving and expanding.
That isn't success.
It's a sign the underlying policy settings remain fundamentally broken.
@drjoesDIYhealth @jamomartin

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

"Eight Bloomberg anti-nicotine groups have essentially taken over the WHO tobacco control unit via its backroom operations of the WHO’s MPOWER programme. The WHO is unable to speak out as, practically bankrupt, they would have no tobacco control programme without Mike Bloomberg."

[Phil @phil_w888]

@IJFMedia Have you considered telling the whole story instead of a teeny-tiny fraction of it?

Most important in all of this: the people most affected---consumers---don't get a seat at the table.

https://t.co/QMJMSXPEAx

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

New official figures show that 80% of cigarettes smoked in Australia in 2025 were illicit. Coming soon to the UK unless we change course. https://t.co/36SXxOaHFA

[Ivanna_🐿JustAMom_*THR*🔬 @VapinSquirrel]

@X @Support @premium It has been 7⃣ days since @Algore09Algor acct was mistakenly suspended. He has never, in the 7 years I've known him, broken any rules. This is an error, please investigate. #Reinstate #FixIt His posts are thoughtful, polite & informative. Plz and TY.

[Phil @phil_w888]

@brtthnz UK government promotes it.

https://t.co/J4rAqCC5vL

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

Old-School Tobacco Control, still stuck in the 1990s, views the world with childlike simplicity:

Epic battle between GOOD vs. EVIL

PROBLEM: Tens of millions of ex-smokers who quit with #SaferNicotine alternatives are stigmatized, ignored and accused of being industry "stooges."

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

These things happened:
- MASSIVE drop in cigarette sales
- MASSIVE drop in the number of adults who smoke
...Coincident with MASSIVE increase in adult vapers
...Coincident with an accelerating decline in lung cancer

At what point can we stop demonizing nicotine vapes?