Dr. Mark Tyndall

Why Dr. Mark Tyndall Is Taking a Stand for Tobacco Harm Reduction The movement has long needed doctors to do this. Tyndall has the vital background of pioneering harm reduction for people who use drugs.

"For harm reduction pioneer @drmarktyndall.bsky.social,
safer nicotine products are safe supply for people who smoke."

"It’s such a brilliant way to do it," he tells Helen Redmond, "and it’s so frustrating that a lot of people don’t see it that way."

How the Need for Vapes Struck Me—and Why They’re Still Vilified Within three months of forming the community drug research advisory group, we lost three out of eight members to smoking-related diseases.

"Within 3 months [our community drug research] advisory group lost 3 out of 8 members to smoking-related diseases."

Yet as vaping is vilified, "a change would be an admission of failure and public health institutions fear this above all else."

By @drmarktyndall.bsky.social:

Dr. Mark Tyndall (@drmarktyndall.bsky.social) Infectious Diseases and Public Health Doctor. Harm Reduction. Drug Policy. Human Rights. TEDMED 2017. MySafe. Vaping Advocate.

More than 100 million smokers have switched to vaping, according to new WHO data.
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My column from earlier this year:
The harm reduction approach should apply to tobacco, too www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
via @drmarktyndall.bsky.social

When Tyndall and Beaumont Took the Stage At the Global Forum on Nicotine 2025, two physicians denounce stigma, institutional inertia, and the vested interests delaying the transition to less harmful alternatives to smoking.

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Rob Breakenridge Show Episode 7: Border bill sneaks in lawful access, Vaping as harm reduction, Calgary's mayoral race Interviews with law professor Michael Geist, harm reduction expert and author Dr. Mark Tyndall, and Calgary mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas

Our latest podcast now live:
- @mgeist.bsky.social on new attempts to sneak through new lawful access provisions
- @drmarktyndall.bsky.social on his new book "Vaping: Behind the Smoke and Fears"
- Calgary mayoral candidate @jeromyyyc.bsky.social
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New book available soon. Vaping" Beyond the Smoke and Fears. #vapesaveslives #tobaccoharmreduction #GFN25 #harmreduction

HIV prevention rock star @drmarktyndall.bsky.social bringing out new book on vaping nicotine as quintessential harm reduction. Book available in June. Its excellent. Well worth reading @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social
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Just finished reading Crackdown by @garthmullins.bsky.social and I am thankful this book has been written. If you are wondering why the streets are looking the way they do and how to better manage the problems, this book offers a lot to consider from the perspective of someone on the ground.

Vaping opponents have become post truthers, convinced like their political counterparts that blatant dishonesty pays. May be also impressed with how long flagrant dishonesty worked for Big Tobacco @drmarktyndall.bsky.social

Michael Russell famously said ‘people smoke for the nicotine but die from the tar’. Now it’s a case of ‘people smoke for the nicotine but die from opposition to tobacco harm reduction’. Drug harm reduction & tobacco harm reduction involve identical principles #HR25
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PMI report released 5 days ago show gross profit & net revenue far greater now for low risk smoke free products than for deadly combustible cigarettes #harmreduction #HR25 @gfn.events @drmarktyndall.bsky.social
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Excited to announce my new book, Vaping: Behind the Smoke and Fears. Coming soon. Stayed tuned.

Gross profit in US on pack of Marlboros = $4.50 & operating profit ~ $3.64. Profit per pack doubled <5years on product costs ~ 40c to make. No other legal consumer product as lucrative to make. Restricting smoke free options helps Make Big Tobacco Greatly Profitable Again & @jamomartin.bsky.social

Received a desperate message from a friend living in Kenya who has had her ARV medications abruptly stopped as the USAID sponsored clinic has been closed down. What Trump and his heartless and vile supporters have done is truly diabolical. There must be a response.

Conservatives target supervised consumption sites, NDP promises rent control | CBC News A Conservative government would prevent any new supervised consumption sites from opening, while making it harder for existing sites to operate, leader Pierre Poilievre announced Sunday, as he provide...

For Candians, this guy can never be the next Prime Minister for his many positions on critical issues including his total lack of understanding around drug use and addiction. Bizarre statements like this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...