Marcello King

* Public Health is valued by weight, not quality

[Marcello King @mechage]

HHS, FDA, CDC | See how's it done across the pond

[The Risk-Monger @zaruk]

My latest Risk-Monger piece will likely piss off a lot of people. I hope though that they will think a little before reacting.
One can always hope.
https://t.co/BiDXGCSgPn

[Lance Churchill @LanceChurchill]

5th Circ. Grills FDA on PMTA Rules.
"If the Fifth Circuit finds the FDA violated the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the agency could be forced to revisit its rulemaking, potentially easing compliance burdens for smaller companies."
https://t.co/yq4VqIypPb

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

WHO COP11 Roundup: The Cult Is Cracking , and the World Is Finally Noticing!

The usual procession of public-health grifters, billionaire-funded NGOs, and anti-nicotine cult disciples swarmed into Geneva for COP11, armed with their ritual mix of propaganda, creative fiction, and anti-science zealotry. But this year, something changed. For the first time, more countries pushed back against the ideological 🐂💩 than blindly nodded along.

The “word of the day” was harm reduction? and no amount of chanting from the high priests of prohibition could make it disappear.

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The Dirty Ashtray Farce Hits New Levels of Absurdity

New Zealand, one of the two most successful countries on Earth in reducing smoking, rivalled only by Sweden, was bizarrely awarded the “Dirty Ashtray Award.”
Why?
Because they didn’t bow down to the cult leaders’ anti-harm-reduction scripture.

Think about that:
The country with historic declines in smoking is punished for not joining a war against the very tools that drove that progress.
Nothing exposes the ideological rot faster than attacking success because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

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Cult Leaders in Disarray: Scrambling to Rewrite Their Own Bible

COP11’s leadership wandered around like stunned rats on a sinking ship, desperately trying to figure out how to erase or reinterpret Article 1(d) of their own treaty?the section that explicitly recognises harm reduction.

But they couldn’t. Too many parties stood up and said, in diplomatic language:
“Your prohibitionist fantasy is harming people. Harm reduction is essential.”

This left the cult inner circle mumbling something like:
“Uh… yeah… okay… we’ll deal with that next time. COP12. In two years. Promise.”
Translation: We’re losing control, and we need more time to re-write the rules to match our ideology.

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Meanwhile in Australia: The WHO’s Favourite Failed Experiment

While the WHO elite applauded their compliant disciples, they conveniently ignored the disaster unfolding in Australia:
•Smoking rates rising for the first time in decades
•An 80% takeover of the retail tobacco market by organised crime
•Record arson attacks, violence, extortion, and turf wars
•A thriving illicit vape and tobacco market created entirely by prohibition

And yet…
Australia is celebrated as the golden child of the FCTC cult.
The country where harm reduction is illegal, smoking is resurging, and criminals now run the nicotine market is somehow the model to follow.

You really can’t script satire better than this.

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The Tide Is Turning, Even If the Cult Pretends Not to Notice

COP11 showed a clear shift:
More countries than ever are rejecting the anti-science, anti-harm-reduction crusade being pushed by the same handful of loud, well-funded extremists.

The façade is cracking.
The ideology is collapsing.
And the world is finally seeing the difference between public health and public-health theatre.

Two years until COP12.
Two years for the cult to scramble, rewrite, spin, and panic.

But harm reduction isn’t going anywhere, and neither are the millions of people whose lives depend on it.

[American Vapor Manufacturers @VaporAmerican]

THIS.
https://t.co/73FL0QYoly

[Marcello King @mechage]

@cremieuxrecueil The words are in English, so we may read them more easily, but this post belongs to the Twilight Zone

[Phil @phil_w888]

It's a no-brainer. It'll be interesting to see how complicated FDA will make it.

https://t.co/xOEIJ8UWtF

[Marcello King @mechage]

@phil_w888

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

"Overall, 7.8% and 7.5% of US adults correctly perceived snus and smokeless tobacco, respectively, as less harmful than cigarettes."

https://t.co/U9nssGSLmq

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

APPALLING! Especially when you consider who misinformed them...

[American Vapor Manufacturers @VaporAmerican]

🎙️ Special Edition - Shaping Vaping 🎙️
@JMacNYC & @jgitchell welcome special guest Dr. Garrett McGovern @AddictionsPMC.
➡️Friday, 11:30AM Eastern ⬅️
- Showdown w @FCTCofficial.
- MPOWER disaster.
- Bill Gates sobers up?
- Joe's substack level-set.
https://t.co/GxLXo2WlA4

[Julie @Juliemkal]

I am seeking input from the vaping community for an initial phase of a project that I can not disclose at this time. If you are willing to share, I would appreciate your insights. Reposting to your followers would be extremely welcomed. 1)3

[Marcello King @mechage]

@Juliemkal Q1 No
Q2 Yes

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

New preprint out with Gal Cohen and Sooyong Kim.

We replicate & re-analyze a recent study that reported e-cig use to be associated with chronic kidney disease:

Comments welcome - we appreciate any & all peer review while this is in preprint.

https://t.co/PpTDFNxr6R

[Marcello King @mechage]

@Juliemkal Actually the body doesn't absorbed so much nicotine. The math goes like this:
Smoking:
60 cigarettes x 1.8mg (yield) = 108mg of nic
Vaping:
7 ml x 6 mg/ml = 42mg of nic, which only 20-60% (give or take depending on device/freebase vs salt) gets absorbed: ~18/25mg

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

RETRACTED

https://t.co/EUOrzhRiZR

Naughty authors at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Feuer, Randolph, Basak, Gordon, Jaspers, Koutros, Crona, Bjurlin) likely violated PATH guidelines and may be banned from accessing that data (like Glantz).

https://t.co/9QBcDpzzIS

[Julie @Juliemkal]

Another notch for science based evidence about the safety of vaping over smoking.
A few months ago, during my break, I was getting the evil eye from 2 smokers whilst I used my vape.
I came across a beautiful photo of a dog nursing ducklings.I asked them if I could show 1)3

[Tobacco Harm Reduction 101 @thr101org]

🚨 Did you know?
“The FDA branch deciding the fate of harm reduction is entirely funded by tobacco.”
That’s like letting a horse & buggy company decide if cars should be allowed on the road. 🚗🐴
👉 https://t.co/mYez7r5Wzl

[Marcello King @mechage]

@dividendgrowth1 @kamilkazani Can you explain how atheism was the motivating factor for the atrocities committed by those people? What atheist doctrine commands violence?
The problem with fascism and communism is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions

[Global Forum on Nicotine @GFNicotine]

https://t.co/6gqFxq2t7R

[The Daily Pouch @DailyPouchNews]

Prohibitionists claim vaping is only about quitting. The truth? It was always about enjoying nicotine more safely. Check out our latest article from @NannyFreeState https://t.co/UTvCvTfhrt