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Advocating for harm reduction

[NZ Vaping Alliance @VapingAlliance]

‘Data presented to a recent Senate inquiry into the crisis indicated that the illicit market now accounts for some 80 per cent of all tobacco and nicotine consumption in Australia….’ https://t.co/V3frGSKpgz

[Bludn Gore (Supervisor) @Bludn_Gore]

@X @Support @elonmusk I see @Algore09Algor is still suspended for no apparent reason.

Again I am asking you to review this and reinstate his account.

Thank you!

[Tom Gleeson @Rathmacan]

Sweden became the first country to reach the smokefree goal of under 5% smoking prevelence. Snus was the diference, you have to ask why the anti smoking people are determined to ban this option as the did in EU, leaving the EU lagging behind as it struggles with a 24% prevelence

[Be_nice @be_vapes]

A true hero!

[Kurt Yeo @Kurt_Yeo]

https://t.co/dk2XAqtDb7
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[Bludn Gore (Supervisor) @Bludn_Gore]

@VaperNt @drjoesDIYhealth @ArielleSelya @Clive_Bates @jgitchell @ChaunceyGardner @jamomartin @MarewaGlover @RoyMorganAus Yep sure do!

https://t.co/Lyfe5RSiWV

https://t.co/XMVJKOMLfa

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

The Philippines has legal vape products. Millions of Filipino adults have already switched from cigarettes. "The Philippines should not help build a regional ban that ignores those consumers." Clarisse Virgino, CAPHRA Philippines. #ASEAN #HarmReduction #Philippines https://t.co/ngpPl86vrO

[Sarah Perks 🖤💛❤️ @SarsHeartSleeve]

Mind blown 2nd time today 🤩 reading accurate reporting; & from @SkyNewsAust 🤩

[Bludn Gore (Supervisor) @Bludn_Gore]

What strikes me about the Tobacco Act Compliance Strategy consultation is that it starts from the assumption that the policy is working and simply asks how compliance and enforcement can be improved.
But where is the consultation on whether the policy itself is contributing to the problem?
Australia is now dealing with a massive illicit tobacco and nicotine market, organised crime involvement, collapsing excise revenue, violence linked to turf wars, and enforcement agencies warning that enforcement alone cannot solve the issue.
Yet the response appears to be more compliance, more enforcement, more monitoring, and more efforts to drive “behavioural change.”
At some point, policymakers need to ask a more fundamental question:
What if the problem is not simply a lack of enforcement?
What if the policy settings themselves have created incentives for consumers and suppliers to move outside the legal market?

The consultation repeatedly refers to improving public health by encouraging people to quit or not start using tobacco products. That’s a reasonable goal.

But after years of escalating restrictions, rising illicit trade and increasingly sophisticated criminal networks, surely it is time to evaluate whether the strategy itself deserves scrutiny.

A compliance strategy that never questions the underlying policy risks becoming an exercise in treating symptoms while ignoring the cause.

The question Australia should be debating is not merely how to enforce the system more effectively.

It is whether the system itself is producing the outcomes it was designed to achieve.

[Marc and Bernie @SeismicPirate]

@ArielleSelya @DavidSweanor @papaioannoy In response to my suing to stop her executive order vaping ban, my governor went on national television and told everyone I was addicting and killing our youth

I immediately began receiving daily death threats at my vape shop, which persisted for months.

[Dr. Johnny Twovapes, VBOSB @mihotep]

The money wasted by Australian "#publichealth" on anti-#vaper propaganda & enforcement could've provided every #smoker in the country with 1 year of #vaping supplies, resulting in an 80%+ reduction in #smoking rates.

[atmospherathr @atmospherathr]

La UE reconoce oficialmente a Suecia como país libre de humo. Sin embargo, impulsa prohibiciones de sabores y más impuestos sobre las alternativas de menor riesgo que ayudaron a lograr ese resultado. ¿Dónde está la lógica? — @LandlMichael

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

People who sell #HarmReduction products are legally required to lie to customers who smoke deadly cigarettes. Not allowed to say "this is safer."

...even though @US_FDA says, very clearly, these are "less harmful alternatives" to cigarettes. 🙄
https://t.co/4VkDvyKmE7

[Martin C @NannyFreeState]

Australia Tried To Tax Smoking Out of Existence. Now 80% of Tobacco Aussies Consume Is From the Black Market. https://t.co/yRUqBiDp3j via @reason

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

@papaioannoy @DavidSweanor and @papaioannoy talk about how vape shop owners cannot legally share scientific facts about relative risk without risking 18 months in federal prison and/or a $500,000 fine

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

Closing panel of #GFN26. @DavidSweanor shares an anecdote of public health people "harassing" @papaioannoy after she opened a vape shop in his town to help people quit smoking

[Kurt Yeo @Kurt_Yeo]

@ArielleSelya @FarsalinosK The primary reason why https://t.co/tTxaBZY86E was created. A platform where people from around the world can share their stories.

[Phillip Kirschberg @RushmoreExt23]

Hello @X. Why have you suspended @Algore09algor's account? I've been following Alan for many years, and he always conducts himself in an exemplary fashion on your platform. Please restore his privileges ASAP as there's clearly been a mistake. Thank you.

Attn: @Support @premium

[John Truncali @TruncaliJohn]

When public health agencies fail to clearly distinguish between smoking and vaping, the result is confusion—not education.
Many Americans now wrongly believe vaping is just as harmful as smoking, despite evidence showing substantial differences in toxicant exposure and risk.
Facts matter:
✅ Smoking kills hundreds of thousands of Americans.
✅ Vaping is not risk-free.
✅ Multiple public health agencies acknowledge vaping is significantly less harmful than smoking.
✅ Adult smokers deserve accurate information about lower-risk alternatives.

Smokers deserve honest information, not messaging that treats all nicotine products as if they're the same.

#Vaping #HarmReduction #FDA #PublicHealth #TobaccoHarmReduction #Nicotine #ScienceMatters
#EvidenceBased #AdultChoice
#RiskReduction

[Charles A. Gardner, PhD @ChaunceyGardner]

@Breaking57 Nicotine salts are not deadly. IF there are trace levels if diacetyl, so what? CIGARETTES deliver 750 times more diacetyl and do not cause "popcorn lung."

It is physically/chemically impossible to put vitamine E acetate in a nicotine vape liquid. It won't mix. You idiots.