This one-page flyer lists all the e-cigarettes authorized to be sold in the US. Is it user-friendly? Certainly. Is it indicative of a review process that prioritizes public health? Certainly not.

I'm glad I managed to quit smoking before the FDA could stop me.

Good piece on vaping here. Overwhelmingly done by current and former smokers, so far there is basically no reason to think it is a gateway to cigarettes. And “popcorn lung” is just a lie. https://t.co/dmwE2laiN9

Yes, the John Candy documentary is that good, and I like liking good things. So will you. h/t @SonnyBunch

‘The administration’s war on drugs is turning out to be worse than the first one’ “The administration attacking boats in the Caribbean is a costly distraction…” https://t.co/946M63V9Ke by LEAP’s @dianemgoldstein & @NeillFranklin

“While there is certainly a place for exposing corporate lobbying that is harming the public's health, making false accusations weakens our credibility. And issuing such attacks against private individuals chills much needed civil discourse among public health practitioners.”

Result

Excellent Substack post by @cjsnowdon: "Australia's imaginary moral victory When your policies blow up in your face, you can always resort to modelling" https://t.co/efLgLYt6tS "The Kiwis have a lower smoking rate while all the Australians have is a tobacco turf war."

I wonder this too for public health policy. Behavioral health is not well suited to one-size-fits-all policies. Worse, policies are too-often based on flawed science: tobacco policy that disincentivizes harm reduction & backwards nutritional guidelines. https://t.co/41czf2GL09

This is the same lady who thought the moon was gone btw

Booze companies can’t win even if they take all the alcohol out of their products because it was #neverabouthealth

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"In short, an office meant to advocate for “public health” has morphed into little more than a bullhorn for the government’s opinion on everyone’s personal life." This is a very persuasive op-ed by @dr4liberty via @washingtonpost. @CatoInstitute

“I can state unequivocally that I am neither part of the tobacco industry nor am I a tobacco industry ally. Yet I believe, as a scientist with 40 years of experience in studying smoking, that cigarette smoking is more dangerous” @mbsiegel

@LNKhealth That's strange. I stopped smoking 11 years ago by switching to vaping. I did it with nicotine eliquid in flavours like Apple and Bavarian Cream. This eliquid was made by a small local manufacturer --not the tobacco industry. I'm 77 and much healthier than I was 11 years ago.

"Health inspectors found and seized 3860 illicit cigarettes and 224 illegal vapes..." Not that seizure volumes have a meaningful impact on the black market, but this is a poor result by any measure. Safe to say Kaz Hamad will not be quaking in his boots...

HHS calls the surgeon general “the nation’s doctor.” But as our report shows, the nation doesn’t need a doctor — and it certainly doesn’t need a doctor’s army. @CatoHealth

@jkelovuori @ArielleSelya @NTR_Journal I used AI to ask Sheriff Ed Tom Bell from Terrell County, Texas what he thought of the paper.

Live look at the replies:

The latest update of the @CochraneTAG living review reiterates the high certainty evidence that vaping is more effective at helping smokers quit than traditional NRT. We urge policymakers not to wreck that with worrying proposals discussed for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

"The overwhelming majority of the amicus briefs filed — thirty-seven groups of amici ranging from bipartisan coalitions of Members of Congress to economists and national security officials to former federal judges to farmers and businesses — support the challengers in urging the