2/2 “The good news is that many of these new products, while still harmful, reduce exposure to toxicants. It therefore makes sense to tax them at a lower rate, which can be adjusted as research becomes available and revenue needs evolve.”
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[revised] New in DADR: Study found US adults who smoke deadly cigarettes were more likely to consider switching to much safer nicotine pouches if they had certain characteristics or had already tried quitting smoking. @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
Well worth listening to Perth GP Dr Joe Kosterich commenting on Australia’s train crash policies on cigarette excise and quasi prohibition of vaping. He’s absolutely right on both counts @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
Unintended consequences of sky high cigarette excise just got even worse. When will tobacco control stop defending sky high cig excise?
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Australian Bloomberg narrative followers now admit sky high cigarette excise caused really horrible unintended consequences eg violent black market but not ready yet to admit Oz has no choice but to start reducing excise @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
George Orwell discussed propagandists demanding 2+2=5. Bloomberg narrative followers argue 2+2=5 & those not ready to accept this just following tobacco industry narrative @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
New drug harm reduction interventions hated first, then accepted, then appreciated because benefits >>negatives! Think methadone treatment, needle syringe programs, drug consumption rooms, pill testing and now nicotine vaping @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
With new drug harm reduction interventions always ferocious resistance at first which only slowly dissipates as evidence gets stronger & stronger. Doesn’t happen like this with non drug new harm reduction interventions @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
If you run a drug treatment service, why not include some help for smokers to quit? So many people struggling with problems from drugs also smoke. Shown that get better results from drug treatment if quit smoking at same time @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
Because vaping is a Gateway to smoking, smoking rates in young people are plummeting, especially where vaping is very popular
True or False? @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
Melissa Davey is back writing anti vape ie pro smoking diatribes for Guardian. Positions herself as “independent public health expert” but ignores harm reduction, promotes policies align with quasi prohibition
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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Immensely powerful market forces are unstoppable & will inevitably ensure safer, smoke-free nicotine products replace deadly cigarettes - whatever vape denialists do @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
Canada discovered secret how to ⬆️ smoking. Ban vape flavours! Nicotine vape sales ⬇️ by ~ 30% after flavours banned while cigarette sales ⬆️ by nearly 10%!
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Another stunning 🧵from @chancethegardener.bsky.social Well worth read whole🧵! Skewers tobacco control misinformation! @sanho.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social
Polite respectful discussion & debate helps us all to spot errors & adopt better positions. But tobacco control orthodoxy knows it will be annihilated in public debate so ensures debate can’t happen @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
But with tobacco excise nearly doubling over the last 10 years, many smokers are now making the shift to illicit tobacco. At the same time, government revenue from tobacco excise has fallen off a cliff.
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Prohibitionists, including those among tobacco control, ignore miserable track record of drug & tobacco prohibitions & quasi prohibitions for effectiveness, cost effectiveness & nasty unintended consequences @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
Why are speculative risks of Australian teens taking up vaping weighed more heavily than much greater risk of older smokers denied access to vaping developing deadly cancer, heart disease or COPD? @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
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Make Smoking Great Again!
•Ban/severely restrict vapes
•⬆️price cigs sky high so really cheap cigs now on black market
•Ban almost all vape flavours
•Misinform smokers vapes more risky than cigs
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2/2 Combustibles volume decreased by 6.0%, due to an industry volume contraction estimated at 6.5%.
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Clear for years vaping isn’t gateway to smoking. It’s bollocks. But hasn’t stopped vape opponents using it as weapon to spread doubt & slow inevitable & unstoppable replacement deadly cigarettes by safer, smoke-free nicotine products @jmenezes.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
On the most important preventable cause of death, ie smoking, VicHealth has become trapped in its own ideology while ignoring science, evidence and compassion. Why keep such an organisation? @squigglyrick.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
2/2 How can we hope to talk together, much less to be persuasive?”
Thomas Kuhn
Exactly as in disagreement re vaping & other smoke-free nicotine options
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2/2 Harm reduction is a fundamental component of many aspects of medicine & indeed everyday life, yet for some reason effective harm reduction principles have not been applied to tobacco smoking”
Royal College of Physicians, 2007
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Yet another rippa of a piece by @algore09algor.bsky.social on denialism in tobacco harm reduction: tobacco exceptionalism. Highly recommended. @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
New drug harm reduction interventions always faces ferocious headwinds from prohibitionists,abstentionists. Harm Reduction International estimates adoption every 2 years extent. This from 2024. Opposition to tobacco harm reduction is doomed @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social
Just released Altria report. Illicit vapes now driving rapid change in US nicotine market. Just imagine how much faster smoking would decline if US govt backed tobacco
harm reduction!
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Recent Altria report notes growth in US vape market now slowing significantly. Law enforcement against unauthorised vape products & tariffs against Chinese products both cited as contributing factors @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
Altria’s recent report shows US sales oral smoke free nicotine options continue to grow like crazy! Tobacco harm reduction is winning market share despite ferocious tobacco control opposition @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
“War is Peace”
“Ignorance is Strength”
“Freedom is Slavery”
Vaping is more dangerous than smoking
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