@pammul.bsky.social
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“vaping poses only a small fraction of the risks of smoking and switching completely from smoking to vaping conveys substantial health benefits”
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
www.gov.uk/government/n...
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
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PHE publishes independent expert e-cigarettes evidence review
A new Public Health England (PHE) e-cigarette evidence review, undertaken by leading independent tobacco experts, provides an update on PHE’s 2015 review.
www.gov.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“vaping poses only a small fraction of the risks of smoking and switching completely from smoking to vaping conveys substantial health benefits”
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
www.gov.uk/government/n...
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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In today's GFN News interview, GFNTV speaks with Nancy Loucas CAPHRA Executive Coordinator, about the fallout from COP11 in Geneva and the controversial Dirty Ashtray Award given to New Zealand.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In today's GFN News interview, GFNTV speaks with Nancy Loucas CAPHRA Executive Coordinator, about the fallout from COP11 in Geneva and the controversial Dirty Ashtray Award given to New Zealand.
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@who.int included Nicotine Replacement Therapy in list of Essential Medicines in 2009 but today regards nicotine in safer, smoke-free options as target for eradication! Please explain flagrant contradiction @profglantz.com @jgitchell.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
UNAIDS supports harm reduction. WHO supports ILLICIT drug harm reduction... NOW. It hides the fact that during the 1980s "just say no" craze, WHO opposed illicit drug harm reduction... leading many low- and middle-income countries to EXECUTE drug users (a pretty big violation of human rights).
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@who.int included Nicotine Replacement Therapy in list of Essential Medicines in 2009 but today regards nicotine in safer, smoke-free options as target for eradication! Please explain flagrant contradiction @profglantz.com @jgitchell.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
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I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
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Funny thing happened on the way to buy some death sticks: I quit smoking. And then I noticed EVERYONE had quit smoking. And it was good.
But then I saw thousands of jobless tobacco control experts tearing their hair, gnashing their teeth and lamenting: "NO! You quit the wrong way!!!"
But then I saw thousands of jobless tobacco control experts tearing their hair, gnashing their teeth and lamenting: "NO! You quit the wrong way!!!"
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Funny thing happened on the way to buy some death sticks: I quit smoking. And then I noticed EVERYONE had quit smoking. And it was good.
But then I saw thousands of jobless tobacco control experts tearing their hair, gnashing their teeth and lamenting: "NO! You quit the wrong way!!!"
But then I saw thousands of jobless tobacco control experts tearing their hair, gnashing their teeth and lamenting: "NO! You quit the wrong way!!!"
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“There is no compelling objection to the recreational and even addictive use of nicotine provided it is not shown to be physically, psychologically, or socially harmful to the user or to others.”
Lancet editorial 1991
Lancet editorial 1991
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“There is no compelling objection to the recreational and even addictive use of nicotine provided it is not shown to be physically, psychologically, or socially harmful to the user or to others.”
Lancet editorial 1991
Lancet editorial 1991
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‘Addiction to tobacco-derived nicotine will probably not diminish until there is available on market competitive
nicotine source which is “clean” in the sense that it does not deliver carcinogens or toxins to consumer in the wake of
the nicotine’
Grey & Boyle, Lancet 2003
nicotine source which is “clean” in the sense that it does not deliver carcinogens or toxins to consumer in the wake of
the nicotine’
Grey & Boyle, Lancet 2003
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
‘Addiction to tobacco-derived nicotine will probably not diminish until there is available on market competitive
nicotine source which is “clean” in the sense that it does not deliver carcinogens or toxins to consumer in the wake of
the nicotine’
Grey & Boyle, Lancet 2003
nicotine source which is “clean” in the sense that it does not deliver carcinogens or toxins to consumer in the wake of
the nicotine’
Grey & Boyle, Lancet 2003
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range of tobacco harm-reduction products incomplete without clean addictive source of nicotine can compete commercially with cigarettes. Non-addictive NRT is a partial answer only, as evidenced by fact that it has subsumed only a minor portion of nicotine market.
N Grey, P Boyle, Lancet 2003
N Grey, P Boyle, Lancet 2003
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
range of tobacco harm-reduction products incomplete without clean addictive source of nicotine can compete commercially with cigarettes. Non-addictive NRT is a partial answer only, as evidenced by fact that it has subsumed only a minor portion of nicotine market.
N Grey, P Boyle, Lancet 2003
N Grey, P Boyle, Lancet 2003
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‘lessons learned from real-world experiment in harm reduction with Snus.Most important-nicotine addiction can be diverted from cigs to orally absorbed nicotine-delivery product, which is competitive with cigs as nicotine source.2nd: if Snus is gateway, more likely exit from cig addiction than entry
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
‘lessons learned from real-world experiment in harm reduction with Snus.Most important-nicotine addiction can be diverted from cigs to orally absorbed nicotine-delivery product, which is competitive with cigs as nicotine source.2nd: if Snus is gateway, more likely exit from cig addiction than entry
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‘If accepted nicotine addiction here for foreseeable future, new & better range of addictive recreational nicotine needed. Any risks linked with such product dwarfed by magnitude of tobacco problem. This product will not be achieved without political acceptance of concept’
Grey, Boyle, Lancet 2003
Grey, Boyle, Lancet 2003
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
‘If accepted nicotine addiction here for foreseeable future, new & better range of addictive recreational nicotine needed. Any risks linked with such product dwarfed by magnitude of tobacco problem. This product will not be achieved without political acceptance of concept’
Grey, Boyle, Lancet 2003
Grey, Boyle, Lancet 2003
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For years, plant-based offerings have been mimicking burgers, chicken, and fish.
Mission Barns is one of a handful of startups taking the next step: growing real animal fat outside the animal, then marrying it with plants to create hybrids that look, cook, and taste more like the real thing.
Mission Barns is one of a handful of startups taking the next step: growing real animal fat outside the animal, then marrying it with plants to create hybrids that look, cook, and taste more like the real thing.
This pig’s bacon was delicious—and she’s alive and well
Mission Barns cultivates pork fat in bioreactors for meatballs and more. Honestly, they're pretty darn good.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
For years, plant-based offerings have been mimicking burgers, chicken, and fish.
Mission Barns is one of a handful of startups taking the next step: growing real animal fat outside the animal, then marrying it with plants to create hybrids that look, cook, and taste more like the real thing.
Mission Barns is one of a handful of startups taking the next step: growing real animal fat outside the animal, then marrying it with plants to create hybrids that look, cook, and taste more like the real thing.
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The School Strike for Climate was built on social media. Activists fear the teen ban means there won’t be a next one, writes Cam Wilson.
Youth activists fear the teen social media ban will crush their political voice
www.crikey.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The School Strike for Climate was built on social media. Activists fear the teen ban means there won’t be a next one, writes Cam Wilson.
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Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
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COP11 Geneva discussed tobacco control yet lack of individual rights in global health policy decisions. Foreign influences eg Bloomberg promote draconian measures infringe personal freedoms. Need balanced approach respects individual choices & harm reduction
dailyfriend.co.za/2025/11/22/b...
dailyfriend.co.za/2025/11/22/b...
Bureaucrats and busybodies: COP11’s “experts” SA can do without - Daily Friend
This week the richest country on Earth is hosting the biennial banquet-ball of bankers, bureaucrats, and busybodies.
dailyfriend.co.za
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
COP11 Geneva discussed tobacco control yet lack of individual rights in global health policy decisions. Foreign influences eg Bloomberg promote draconian measures infringe personal freedoms. Need balanced approach respects individual choices & harm reduction
dailyfriend.co.za/2025/11/22/b...
dailyfriend.co.za/2025/11/22/b...
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7 countries strongly supported tobacco harm reduction at @who.int COP 11 FCTC meeting in Geneva last week but only 1 country supported THR during COP 10. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
7 countries strongly supported tobacco harm reduction at @who.int COP 11 FCTC meeting in Geneva last week but only 1 country supported THR during COP 10. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
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1/3 ABCTV 7.30 Report tonight another hit job on vapes. Does ABC ever interview vape supporter? Concerns about what’s in black market vapes but NZ regulates vapes sensibly & doesn’t have vape black market. Most vapers started smoking first & then switched to vapes @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
1/3 ABCTV 7.30 Report tonight another hit job on vapes. Does ABC ever interview vape supporter? Concerns about what’s in black market vapes but NZ regulates vapes sensibly & doesn’t have vape black market. Most vapers started smoking first & then switched to vapes @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social
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Consider the "standard narrative" *pushed* by Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded non-profits:
"E-cigarettes have increased in popularity, especially among teens."
#FactCheck Bloomberg! ADULT nicotine vaping utterlyl DWARFS teen use 34 to 1. Adult use is rising (⬆️110%); teen use is dropping (⬇️70%).
"E-cigarettes have increased in popularity, especially among teens."
#FactCheck Bloomberg! ADULT nicotine vaping utterlyl DWARFS teen use 34 to 1. Adult use is rising (⬆️110%); teen use is dropping (⬇️70%).
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Consider the "standard narrative" *pushed* by Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded non-profits:
"E-cigarettes have increased in popularity, especially among teens."
#FactCheck Bloomberg! ADULT nicotine vaping utterlyl DWARFS teen use 34 to 1. Adult use is rising (⬆️110%); teen use is dropping (⬇️70%).
"E-cigarettes have increased in popularity, especially among teens."
#FactCheck Bloomberg! ADULT nicotine vaping utterlyl DWARFS teen use 34 to 1. Adult use is rising (⬆️110%); teen use is dropping (⬇️70%).
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If COP11 needed a demonstration of how ideology can hollow out science, Professor Emily Banks delivered it.
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social
www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/emily-b...
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social
www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/emily-b...
Emily Banks at COP11: A Masterclass in Selective Science and Moral Panic
If COP11 needed a demonstration of how ideology can hollow out science, Professor Emily Banks delivered it. Her speech, framed as “current evidence on the risks of e-cigarettes”, was less a scientific...
www.aliveadvocacymovement.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
If COP11 needed a demonstration of how ideology can hollow out science, Professor Emily Banks delivered it.
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social
www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/emily-b...
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social
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Canadian Economics Professor Ian Irvine explains exactly why world could end smoking globally with current funding using vapes & other low-risk smoke-free nicotine options & we don’t need $9 billion @who.int says we do to achieve this @chancethegardener.bsky.social
financialpost.com/opinion/opin...
financialpost.com/opinion/opin...
Opinion: The WHO wants nine times more money to control tobacco. Don’t pay!
The organization would discourage non-tobacco nicotine products that have allowed millions of smokers to quit. That's backwards. Read on
financialpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Canadian Economics Professor Ian Irvine explains exactly why world could end smoking globally with current funding using vapes & other low-risk smoke-free nicotine options & we don’t need $9 billion @who.int says we do to achieve this @chancethegardener.bsky.social
financialpost.com/opinion/opin...
financialpost.com/opinion/opin...
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Tobacco control hate low-risk vapes much more than they hate deadly cigarettes. But smokers love vapes so demand strong even when supply vy restricted so market outsourced to organised crime. Explain to me again why that’s such good idea @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Tobacco control hate low-risk vapes much more than they hate deadly cigarettes. But smokers love vapes so demand strong even when supply vy restricted so market outsourced to organised crime. Explain to me again why that’s such good idea @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
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More performative displays at @who.int #FCTCCOP11 with Mexico awarded for its vape neo prohibitionism & New Zealand disgraced for achieving record fast decline in smoking for both Māori & pakeha (majority) @clivebates.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
More performative displays at @who.int #FCTCCOP11 with Mexico awarded for its vape neo prohibitionism & New Zealand disgraced for achieving record fast decline in smoking for both Māori & pakeha (majority) @clivebates.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social
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Fancy truth emerging at #FCTCCOP11 despite all efforts to just have anti tobacco harm reduction! Yes NZ smoking rates plummeted after vaping regulated 2020. Also other countries with high rates use of low risk nicotine options @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social
🇳🇿 New Zealand delegation tells #FCTCCOP11
"Since 2019 smoking rates have declined more rapidly in association with implementation of tobacco harm reduction measures, particularly regulated access to vaping products."
fctc.who.int/convention/c...
🇳🇿 New Zealand delegation tells #FCTCCOP11
"Since 2019 smoking rates have declined more rapidly in association with implementation of tobacco harm reduction measures, particularly regulated access to vaping products."
fctc.who.int/convention/c...
Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties
fctc.who.int
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Fancy truth emerging at #FCTCCOP11 despite all efforts to just have anti tobacco harm reduction! Yes NZ smoking rates plummeted after vaping regulated 2020. Also other countries with high rates use of low risk nicotine options @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
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The world’s largest equivalent body, Cancer Council UK, supports tobacco harm reduction and evidence for safety and effectiveness.
The Cancer Council loves to posture about being ‘anti-tobacco,’ but when it comes to the world’s most effective quitting tool, nicotine vaping, suddenly they’re outraged. Principles when convenient, hypocrisy when profitable.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The world’s largest equivalent body, Cancer Council UK, supports tobacco harm reduction and evidence for safety and effectiveness.