John Summers MBCS

IT professional, husband, father, First Aider, archer, gamer, LARPer :-)

[Richard Pruen @PruenRichard]

@AshOrg Maybe @LivePippas can let you know how that's likely to work.

Australia has already tried eye watering taxes. This levy will just be passed on to consumers, as confirmed by HMRC.

It's not going to end well.

[@camjenglish @camjenglish]

About 6% of smokers who try to quit will succeed.

"It's a life and death kind of piss poor," says tobacco expert Cliff Douglas.

And that's why vaping is such a game changer. Quit rates are much higher.

Full interview in the quote tweet below. ⤵️

[Steve Milloy @JunkScience]

Sorry, but @drlenawen used up her credibility during the COVID disaster. This lame effort to tobacco-ize snack and fun foods is absurd. Imagine food formulated to taste good.😱

https://t.co/5lAKwsHiOC

[Quit Like Sweden @quitlikesweden]

Suely Castro, Founder of Quit Like Sweden, has submitted feedback to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive and Tobacco Advertising Directive, urging the Commission to ensure the forthcoming revision draws on the full breadth of available evidence.

You can read the submission and submit your own evidence and feedback:

https://t.co/y1QhuR18OU

[NNAlliance @NNAlliance]

Online retailer, @vapeclub, has produced a survey to raise awareness of the upcoming tax on vaping and to try to educate the government that it is a mistake. You can access the survey a this link. https://t.co/xjyesYv432

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

This is the second time Urvish Patel has had a study on vaping retracted. The first one claimed that vaping causes stroke. The field is awash with junk science.

[Phil @phil_w888]

@GlobalEdmonton @UAlberta So, did your reporter not read the study, or is she just another bald-faced liar at @globalnews?

I suspect both are true.

https://t.co/AHlGUtniCG

[CAPHRA (Coalition of AP Harm Reduction Advocates) @caphraorg]

What is tobacco harm reduction?
CAPHRA: stop treating it as an exception. #THR #GFN26
https://t.co/tUYu8DoSLy

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

@NTR_Journal "Taken together, the review suggests that while vaping may be associated with shifts in oral bacterial communities, current evidence does not support definitive claims of oral harm."

https://t.co/gkvtQf6Wwo

[European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates @europethra]

"If a product is banned, there can be no regulatory oversight, no quality control, no safety standards, and the products may contain iIlicit ingredients or be of inferior quality."

https://t.co/UKhvNErcPc

[AVI @vapeindia]

@RanchiHealth @IrfanAnsariMLA @HLTH_JHARKHAND @DC_Ranchi This isn't true.

https://t.co/3oeCrpnMX0

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

Mind-altering drugs are all bad, right? So… what is the most commonly used psychoactive drug on Earth?

Hint: It fueled the Enlightenment. Increased productivity… is used by 90% of adults on Earth.
https://t.co/ROrtVlGiDG

[Prohibition Does Not Work @PDNWmedia]

“For many years we've been focusing our arguments on public health and consumer choice, where the argument is clearly on our side.

The evidence is so overwhelming that these products have the capacity to save hundreds of millions of lives across the world. This should be a policy no-brainer, and yet we see governments after governments after governments banning these products. It was a very depressing realization for me.”

- PDNW lead spokesman @Tim_Andrews at #GFN26

[European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates @europethra]

Impossible by design: the EU survey on future tobacco and nicotine policy

In this briefing, we identify eight generic problems with the consultation questionnaire and provide an annex with more specific comments on the twenty-three questions.

https://t.co/Akz0IvpFRU

[Clearing the Air @clearingthe_air]

Sweden just told Brussels: hands off our nicotine pouches. The EU wanted a tax hike of almost 700%. Sweden, a country that has virtually eliminated smoking, said no. Maybe Europe should learn from Sweden instead of punishing its success. https://t.co/9lWlJ7PJBP

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

@ynetnews Nicotine itself does not cause deaths. So your Health Ministry is just confusing the public.

CIGARETTES cause deaths.

Here is what happened in the USA over the past six years. All good news. However, OUR prohibitionist zealots try to spin it as bad.

[Phil @phil_w888]

It doesn't get more cartoonishly evil than this.

Picking the pockets of people who smoke (most of whom are socioeconomically disadvantaged) isn't enough. Now it's imperative that they be robbed after they quit.

All in the name of "harm reduction" and "equity".

@mkeind

[Phil @phil_w888]

@JonathanAveryMD @ParentsvsVape 1.4% does not a generation make.

[Alan Beard @Alan_Beard1]

Yawn ......Does WHO esp @WHO_Europe ever check how their 'auto-tweeting' is faring?
This one had already previously attracted a community note ie 'readers added context' from an earlier tweet.
Does a human ever scrutinise/authorise this 💩? It most certainly doesn't appear so.

[Martin C @NannyFreeState]

"Bans [of safer nicotine products] run counter to the core principles of bioethics and public health ethics." @etterjf has published an excellent commentary on the state of 'public health' attitudes towards THR. Well worth a read. https://t.co/DGUlvRqt8a