Phillip Kirschberg

Smoking/tobacco harm reduction advocate. WNL co-host. ASU Alumni '97 🌹 Not humorless. Personal account. I'd prefer to make the world a better place, and you?

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

Tremendous progress has been made, and you love to see it.

[Gregory Conley @GregTHR]

Skip is the first representative of the general public who doesn't actually represent mainstream tobacco control.

The four previous holders of the position:

- Scout (no first name), an anti-tobacco LGBT activist.

- Pebbles Fagan, an anti-tobacco professor engaged in tobacco research (as members of the general public do).

- Sonia Duffy, an anti-tobacco nursing professor.

- Patricia Nez Henderson, an anti-tobacco Native American activist who wants to "decolonize tobacco" and feels unsafe being in the same room as the tobacco industry.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@Bludn_Gore @shdwstar Put your pants on, mate.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

My old phone became so sluggish that it was barely usable, so I opted to trade up. The new one features a 5x optical zoom that's just ridiculously capable. I mean, it's powerful to the extent that the potential for misuse (gross) has crossed my mind.

I wouldn't worry though.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@bdquinn In other news, Mark Levin has a point and this is the ninth circle of hell.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

My AOL email is back and working great. How's it going with Microsoft Outlook email users?

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

Stefaan Hendrickx describes the population shift away from cigarettes in Flemish youth - yet another example of what I showed below in US adults.

"Shift in consumption: overall nicotine use among Flemish youth remains stable at 24.3%, but a major shift has occurred: exclusive tobacco smoking has dropped to a historic low, while e-cigarettes and dual use have become the dominant patterns"

https://t.co/kNDCIE6LUf

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@ChaunceyGardner Said the literal boomer avec: ":-)".

I adore you, Charles.. you KNOW this, man. 😂

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

Makary claimed teen nicotine "addiction" was rising.

Both CDC/FDA and NIH surveys show teen nicotine use has dropped to a 50-year low (including cigarettes and nicotine vapes).

He didn't want to believe his own agency's survey. 🙄

https://t.co/7o1G4csb2S
https://t.co/23pRJGVo6X

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@imaracingmom I understood and completed the assignment today. 💪

Sleep well, Skipper.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@shdwstar And I don't even know how it works yet.

What a glorious time to be alive.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

I bullied Peta into deleting a post using only the power of poetry.

[Skip Murray, DSP, TTS 🌻 @imaracingmom]

Mark’s pizza-pepperoni, well done, light cheese, light sauce is done. My “there’s no such thing as too many topping” pizza is ready for the oven. #TwitterSupperClub

[Roger Bate @RogerBate3]

Public health should help smokers escape smoke. So why bring nicotine into a UN drug-control system that could obstruct safer alternatives?

My take:
https://t.co/5Wf3UqDBKa
Full CGHA research:
https://t.co/IuCBHRxeHL

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@trumwill @BenSearsMSYS I discovered vaping in 2010, back when supplies were scarce. It took me 14 months to completely transition away from cigarettes. Then around 2015, the state of Alabama started urging people like me to pick up smoking again, and I've been politely declining their offer ever since.

[Skip Murray, DSP, TTS 🌻 @imaracingmom]

3/x
2026 marked my 11-year smoke-free celebration. I tried a tobacco-flavored vape and hated it. I quit smoking with a rainbow sherbet-flavored vape. It was manufactured by a fellow Minnesotan. @TroopaX, thank you 🙏 for creating what helped me succeed!

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@Gardner_LM @SophiaCai99 @politico As reported by @l_e_whyte @WSJ.

[Liz Essley Whyte @l_e_whyte]

NEW

The White House wants more flavored vapes. Trump promised to "save vaping" in his campaign.

But his FDA Commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, is not a fan of the idea. He blocked some recent vape flavor approvals, even though scientific staff had signed off.

🎁🔗 👇

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

Attention: @Gardner_LM and @SophiaCai99:

Regarding your recent @politico article titled, "Former FDA Head Accuses Trump Aides of Bowing to Industry," please review the relevant information provided below.

Thank you for your time.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@garyschwitzer Multiple credible sources have already confirmed that Makary acted alone and contrary to the recommendations of veteran CTP scientists in delaying the authorization of an age-gated flavored e-cigarette product developed by Glas. Please continue reading below. Thank you.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@Gardner_LM @SophiaCai99 @politico • On 1/17/26, OS Director Matthew Farrelly signed off on authorizing six items: the (Glas) device, four flavored (two menthol-flavored) pods, and one tobacco-flavored pod.

• Makary intervened even after internal reviewers recommended authorization.
https://t.co/7eUEMbRkE0

[American Vapor Manufacturers @VaporAmerican]

Everyone in the field of nicotine policy owes @MarcGunther a debt of gratitude for his intrepid, rigorous, and unflinching journalism. He has been a beacon of integrity and a champion of accountability. Happy trails, Marc, you set a high standard.
https://t.co/TCgXF6IcUB

[Jukka Kelovuori @jkelovuori]

@RushmoreExt23 @garyschwitzer 🎯

Makary simply turned a blind eye to the vast market in unauthorized Chinese vapes in every flavor imaginable and easily accessed by youth and initially refused to authorize an age-gated product from a small American company in order to "protect youth". 🥴

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@garyschwitzer Multiple credible sources have already confirmed that Makary acted alone and contrary to the recommendations of veteran CTP scientists in delaying the authorization of an age-gated flavored e-cigarette product developed by Glas. Please continue reading below. Thank you.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

@AllenFrancesMD Trump fan, I am not; however, FDA scientists recommended authorizing flavored Glas products months before Trump got involved.

CTP documents clearly show that it was Marty Makary alone who overruled career scientists at @FDATobacco, not Trump.

https://t.co/kwX7fpfE6O

[Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS) @TobPolicy]

Check out the TOPS website for the video recording 🎥 from last week's presentation and Q&A with Matthew Farrelly, Director of the Office of Science at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.

https://t.co/MGDVr0GTab