Aotearoa Vapers
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Ngāi Tahu/Ngāpuhi/Scots - ko Tipene ahau - Nurse & AVCA THR advocate educating & informing harm reduction via safer alternative methods. 🇳🇿
Christchurch
Joined March 2016
The National Party thinks tax breaks for tobacco companies are more important than women’s pay!
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🚭 Dr @PeterLiese with the facts: "For heavy smokers, e-cigarettes help reduce harm significantly. Banning them in outdoor spaces is not proportionate". 🗳️ Recommendation on Smoke-free Environments @EPPGroup
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Sign & share this declaration to remind FCTC that science-based THR advocacy allows adult citizens to have access to safer alternatives to combustible and unsafe oral nicotine through risk-proportionate regulation of safer nicotine products. https://t.co/BeiH4ufzDY
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FCTC is still in total denial about discussing THR with signatory nation advocates. The FCTC COP10 Agenda and supporting documents: implications for the future of tobacco harm reduction
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With a raft of evidence to date that #vaping assists smokers in quitting, a PG student from an anti-THR uni claims with their ostensible data otherwise. https://t.co/06yhzRzh0k
1news.co.nz
Researchers have found no consistent evidence of vapes helping smokers quit the habit.
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"Pure nicotine has an impact on an individual’s health equal to that of caffeine and is less harmful than alcohol."
english.elpais.com
The clinical psychologist and creator of the Fagerström test talks about therapeutic options for people with tobacco use disorder
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THR advocacy on point
Advice for healthcare professionals. Debbie Robson, Senior Lecturer on Tobacco Harm Reduction at @KingsCollegeLon, explains the numerous benefits of encouraging vaping among patients who are smokers. Direct them to https://t.co/n6mODCl5wh for stop smoking support.
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$32,000 or a jail sentence of two years for holding a vape in the ACT! Holding your smokes, not a problem! https://t.co/4dorSRpdXD What are you in jail for mate? Rape & murder. How bout you? Holding a nicotine vape. You should of just kept smoking! How is this normal, let alone
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You are about to get shot in the chest. I offer you a soldier-designed bulletproof vest, only on the market for 15 years, but nobody has died of a gunshot wound so far. An anti #harmreduction troll warns the person there are no long-term studies on the vest. Do you take the vest?
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Clive Bates could aptly remind the alarmists at ARFNZ that "policies built on bullshit have a nasty tendency to go wrong and would do more harm than good."
tobaccoreporter.com
The idea that e-cigarette flavors hook kids is simple, compelling and false.
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Creating an accurate ontology will empower people to choose safer alternatives, preventing smoking-related diseases and premature death.
filtermag.org
Nicotine vapes contain no tobacco but are routinely called “tobacco products.” A 2019 lung disease outbreak is still known as ...
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Don't let your right to choose alternatives to smoking be taken away! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/OcyK2czIAo via @Change
change.org
Don't let your right to choose alternatives to smoking be taken away! | #Right2Switch
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Vaping carries only a small fraction of the risk of cigarettes for non-smokers who transition to vaping because they don't produce tar or carbon monoxide... for the majority, ENDS is still very much an effective tool for helping smokers to quit. https://t.co/XOfInN7SwC
news.sky.com
One in five ex-smokers said vaping had helped them kick the habit - apparently backing up growing evidence that e-cigarettes can be effective at helping people quit.
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If not you, then who? Nothing about ANY of us, without ALL of us. Submissions on the SFEA and Regulated Tobacco Products Amendment close on 24 August 2022. Anyone can make a submission, from any country. Let's do this!
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Lets make sure it stays that way. Make your submission to the Health Committee here: https://t.co/LolmTw4Zzg Deadline is 24 August 2022 NZ time.
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Who here doesn't enjoy nicotine's strange mixture of its stimulating and calming effects...
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