Ruth Bonita

Independent global public health practitioner and advocate for NCDs being higher on the global agenda

[Alex Wodak AM @AlexWodak]

Thank you @TammyTyrrell_ for your common sense, compassion & pragmatism re vaping. No one has as yet been able to explain why low risk vapes are severely restricted in Australia while deadly cigarettes are readily available. Completely nuts @SenatorJordon @AdamBandt @LivePippas

[Pippa Starr - Let's Improve Vaping Education! 🇦🇺 @LivePippas]

Simon, that would be only a relevent statement if vapes were tobacco products, but they are not!
Tarring vapes with the same cancer causing tar found in combustible tobacco only makes one look uneducated and silly!
"There is no good evidence that vapes cause cancer" said the CEO of the Cancer council yesterday!
Is she lying?

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

@kimber792 @AlexWodak 🤣

[Alex Wodak AM @AlexWodak]

Highly recommend reading @Clive_Bates analysis here. Very important. Hard to believe Alice in Wonderland thinking of tobacco control survived this long

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

@cdoug @FDATobacco Disposables ARE now the most "popular" vapes with US teen vapers. The 2023 NYTS shows:

7.7% use nicotine vapes “at least once in the past month”
35% use them frequently, so may routinely buy products
= 2.7%
60.7% of THOSE use disposables = 1.6% of teens

[Public Housing Futures @publichousingnz]

@cjsbishop and @NicolaWillisMP the People want public housing. Read the People's Review of Kāinga Ora here: https://t.co/wpRheNRgMi #people4publichousing #kaingaora

[MKR @MKR1MKR2]

@swimdaily @ColinMendelsohn @iPHC2 @AlboMP @Mark_Butler_MP @AdamBandt @Anne_Ruston @healthgovau @LibertariansAus

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

@swimdaily @ColinMendelsohn Response from my nephew in OZ:. “My GP declined my request for a vape prescription stating that she believes they are as bad as tobacco. So I buy black market vapes still. Vapes have helped me - last tobacco cig was August 2022. We could use the NZ model here definitely 💯

[Alex Wodak AM @AlexWodak]

Deeply upsetting that former long-standing public health colleagues now happily engage in wholesale sophistry & any unscrupulous tactic they think might work to attack tobacco harm reduction

[Dave Vetter @davidrvetter]

👀 Watch Aotearoa New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver the most formidably cogent summary of the 20th century economic order - and how it ruined everything.

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

How unexpected! Who would have thought it would come to this? https://t.co/5ndchyxGgG

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

Listen at 3.08 as new finance minister, Nicola Willis, admits scrapping smokefree laws will help fund tax cut! https://t.co/XyrCsw2Sek

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

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[Nick Young @nickofnz]

You do not need an EasyVote Card to vote.

You do not even need to be enrolled and you do not need to take identification with you when you go to vote.

If you are a NZer over the age of 18, just show up to a polling booth and you will be able to vote.

#nzpol

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

Good to see this thoughtful effort at reframing #vaping as a double - edged sword.⁦@matthewscott111⁩ ⁦@drayeshaverrall⁩ ⁦@hapaitehauora⁩ ⁦@HealthCoA⁩ https://t.co/hVuuIjFSdP

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

More than half of the cost of living crisis explained by rise in corporate profits https://t.co/w4HlhEQH5T via @actionstation

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

Let’s get some discussion going on how to deal with the vaping in schools – advice for teachers @HealthCoA @ASHNZ2025 @AlexWodak @hapaitehauora @drayeshaverrall @hapai_tc @https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/schools/

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

How to deal with the vaping in schools – advice for teachers https://t.co/s9FW2dMsNO

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

@SeedTheChangeNZ @top_nz But why would you want to align to a policy that slows down the rate of cigarette smoking and makes it harder for cigarette smokers (mostly poor already) to access cheaper, safer alternatives?! I just don’t get it!
Instead, RAISE LEGAL AGE TO 21 AND ENFORCE CURRENT LEGISLATION!

[Ruth Bonita @iPHC2]

Not quite enough! a modest addition to current tobacco control measures. #Vaping as an alternative way of accessing nicotine, works too! One third decline in smoking in NZ in past 2 years suggests Smokefree 2025 goal will be reached.⁦@ASHNZ2025⁩ a https://t.co/73PKwfHVY3