One hundred specialists call for WHO to change its hostile stance on tobacco harm reduction - new letter to FCTC delegates published. #COP9 @DrTedros .1/2.

Hard hitting letter on the European Commision’s perverse and false rationale for raising taxes on far safer alternatives to cigarettes. It’s almost as if @EU_Commission doesn’t realise that smoking kills 700,000 Europeans each year.

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The difference between car and motorcycle mortality is partly down to who chooses to ride a motorcycle - age, gender, attitude, and risk appetite. It is a common error to attribute risks to technologies rather than the people that choose to use them.

RT @RegWatchCanada: @GFNicotine @Clive_Bates This was an amazing interview. We dove deep! Jump in and join us!.

Interview. My critique of the self-serving tobacco control establishment: protecting its own interests while casually harming millions of others. Not everyone, of course, but far too many.

Big rant on this one.

RT @GFNicotine: Institutions like WHO, regulators, and NGOs are hostile to harm reduction and have shifted their firepower from smoking to….

RT @jkelovuori: From @Clive_Bates:. "Response to questions: South Africa Portfolio Committee on Health". Both the follow-up responses (PDF)….

RT @NannyFreeState: "The conclusion that vaping acts as a ‘gateway’ is an overspeculation, especially when the paper notes that at a popula….

RT @ChaunceyGardner: @jkelovuori The Emperor's New Clothes:.We can all SEE teen smoking is not increasing. It has plummeted. We can all S….

RT @jkelovuori: Prof Ann McNeill:. "[This umbrella review] reported on 56 systematic reviews of which 53 were rated critically low or low q….

RT @ArielleSelya: Science Media Centre points out incorrect interpretations in a recent article in Tobacco Control, such as concluding caus….

RT @ChaunceyGardner: BMJ just posted this systematic evidence review of 63 studies. It found "a lack of evidence supporting any associatio….

RT @thr101org: For every 1 SD teen smoking, 53 adults smoke. For every 1 teen vaping, 9 adults vape. Guess who public health keeps obsessin….

Bill Clinton on our common obligations to Ukraine. When US presidents had some dignity and a moral compass. And before anybody does a whatabout on Clinton’s philandering, let’s just say complicity in illegal invasion, war crimes, torture, child abduction, and rape are worse.

RT @EuromaidanPR: People scream under the rubble of their homes in Kharkiv, attacked by russia with five drones this morning. Trump welcome….

The same scandal - papers that should have be strangled at birth or retracted soon after - exists in other fields, notably public health, especially, tobacco control. True that isn’t it: @ProfGlantz @NEJMEvidence.

RT @jamomartin: An eye-watering 34% increase in illicit drug consumption between 2023-24. Even more concerning, drug expenditure also decre….

RT @Filtermag_org: Demand persists and many retailers still sell disposable vapes—reflecting what advocates say was always an ill-conceived….

RT @NannyFreeState: "The government took products used by 2.6 million adults as alternatives to smoking and just banned them, with little m….

This idea wins a Silver medal in policy category “Terrible Ideas That Will Harm Everyone And Achieve Nothing”. There is no case for finding new ways for @FDATobacco to press its thumb on the scales in favour of illicit vapes and cigarettes. It will do that without any help.