Tahir Turk PhD
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Warrior for Public Health, Social Justice and the Environment. Adjunct Professor Dow University of Health Sciences - School of Public Health. Tweets are my own.
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@thejustjane
I don't care. It just proves that l am more aware of pandemic threats than most others and the simple measures we can take to prevent the spread. I am very comfortable wearing a mask like many Asian people who are culturally attuned to protecting others from infection.
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@chantz_y
Agree, we have a lot to learn from Asian culture when it comes to infection control. They have learned the hard way while some Australians whine about simply putting on a mask when in public.
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@Qldaah
Hollie Hughes has had a terrible influence on Australian politics. She is just a terrible person. Conservative politicians spreading hate.
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Will the provaping advocates in years to come accept the failures and resultant harms caused by this deeply flawed policy allowing open access to kids?
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The billionaires who control our political debate. How much can these individuals eat?
#pigsatthetrough
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@dreaburns
@mmpadellan
You can spin it as another affront to
#MeToo
or you can assume that abuse can happen from both genders as was highlighted in this case. Amber went public and ruined both their careers. That is also disgusting.
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@delmaclifton
Really, do we need a new GG or should we just get rid of all vestiges of colonial rule? My vote is for the latter as the Queens representative is about as useful as tits on a bull.
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Double page spread in the local dailies on
#BigTobacco
links to
#vaping
They've known all along that
#ecigs
would lead to more addiction and dual use from a new youth market who would likely have never smoked...and it is working.
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@DrDeathCHO
@Globalbiosec
Irony doesn't work well on socials. There are enough twits out there who would believe you.
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A staggering 4.3 million vapers in the past decade in Great Britian with an estimated 350,000 vapers never having smoked a cigarette. That's not harm reduction, it's just bad policy!
@ash_ldn
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Vaping advocates claim "switching" from cigarettes to e-cigarettes is "quitting smoking". Fact is, its just more of big tobacco's "smoking light" diversion to keep smokers hooked while addicting a whole new generation to vaping and dual use.
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@Peter_Fitz
Agreed, Australians wouldn't accept that kind of political shite here. Look at the rise of the Teals. We are a little more educated than your average American, and much less paranoid!
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Ecig advocates argue that ecigs are "the same as NRTs" but they fail to mention ecigs were designed to mimic smoking, have massive marketing and promotions, push kiddy flavours and are designed to hook kids. That's why kids don't use NRTs but they sure love candy crush!
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E-cig enthusiasts respond to evidence that kids who use e-cigs are more likely to smoke later: "Oh those were the kids who would smoke anyway!" Yet when people quit smoking with e-cigs, they don't say "oh those were the people who would quit anyway!
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There are lessons to be learned from relaxed vaping policies in countries like NZ. And that's the need for much stronger policies to reduce access by kids to highly addictive and harmful products like ecigs.
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More culture and environment destroyed with the support of governments who are mostly puppets to big business.
#RioTinto
blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine
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"Regular vapers aged 13-17 yrs, who reported using an e-cigarette at least eight times a day, had 30% more lead and twice as much uranium in their urine compared to their peers who only occasionally vaped". More industry so called "harm reduction".
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@bugwannostra
The water scandal is a priority for ICAC. We cannot let Taylor and co get away with it.
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Exactly what we predicted would happen with
#ecigs
. More than 50% of new users are non smoking youth while smoking prevalence remains static. So much for lame harm reduction theories. Plenty more harm to come
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@martinrev21
The few rich can only consume so much. But anyone who seriously believes more people don't lead to massively more consumption are demonstrating growth bias.
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@bugwannostra
The petty man child deleted his twitter account and did not bother to congratulate Allegra. That's real class!
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@oz_f
Commercial news networks like seven still prefer polarising figures to push ratings instead of doing good for the community
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Lachlan Murdoch still spreading misinformation through Australian media while he sues
@crikey_news
Climate case debunked?
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So, 14.5% of school kids vaped in the past 30 days? That's 14 times the smoking rate and at least 400% greater prevalence than we would have expected with youth smoking trends over the past 2 decades. So how does this upturn qualify as harm reduction?
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"While flavoring compounds tested may be safe for ingestion, these results show they are not safe for inhalation. Cinnamon, vanilla and butter flavoring chemicals were the most toxic while mixing e-liquid flavors caused by far the most toxicity to white blood cells."
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Cutting nicotine to levels that are no longer addictive in tobacco products would have greatly reduced smoking and helped prevent avoidable death and suffering. However, the tobacco industry and its allies criticised the measure as “prohibition”. Familiar?
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It will be interesting to see with time how lung injuries and other health conditions from vaping compare with the lung cancers and COPDs from smoking. What is certain in these early days of investigation is that the harms could be considerable.
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@criprights
The Catholic church has a lot more to answer for than George Pell.
#Contraception
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@DavidShoebridge
Another reason to become a Republic sooner rather than later. The UK would never do this to one of their own
#FreeAssangeNOW
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"Researchers from across the UK have highlighted how disposable vape sales quadrupled in the country between 2022 - 2023, with consumers now throwing away around 5 million devices each week." Thank-you
@CochraneTAG
@OHID
for fueling UKs ecig epidemic.
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While vaping advocates continue to carp on about their "journey to health" they conveniently ignore the vaping epidemic among young kids who would likely have never smoked. Vaping prevalence may soon overtake smoking in youth. That's not harm reduction!
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"Approximately one in seven youth ecig users transitioned to cigarette smoking". That's greater than the cessation success rate of ecigs at only 10%. Recommendations are that regulators should aim to deter all nicotine product use among children.
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"EVALI-nicotine was occurring for many years prior to EVALI-VEA, and is still occurring now. Case series completed to date have found that 15-20% of patients with EVALI were sole vapers of nicotine containing e-cigs and did not use THC in any form". Prof. Laura Crotty Alexander.
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42 million litres of water lost daily to coal mines. Another reason to urgently review coal policies
#climatechange
#ClimateEmergency
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Australia took smoking from ‘normal’ to ‘uncommon’: here’s how we are also doing it with vaping. For a start, we don't go in for industry solutions.
@ASHNZ2025
@OHID
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Despite the occasional setbacks, big tobacco will continue to target kids because they know their future sales of ecigs and combustibles depends on early age nicotine addiction.
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@simonahac
These grotesque profiteers will find no sympathy with Australian consumers. Our coal, our gas, and everyone knows the supply has nothing to do with any war in Ukraine.
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Does this look like 95% less harms? Hmm...maybe wait another 20 years.
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More than 18% of 18 to 24 yr old's reported currently using e-cigs while of those under 25 years who reported current e-cigarette use, 72% have never smoked. That's not harm reduction!
#TrojanHorse
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Love your work! Carrying on the tradition of fighting for justice and integrity with our own Father Rod through the Anglican Church in Gosford.
2015 vs Now, and the fvkr contributed ZERO of any kind of good, in between.
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The only "tobacco harms deniers" l see are industry shills saying "nothing to see here" on ecigs. It also happened with industry combustibles harm deniers, so no surprises. Fool us once...
@TahirTturk
@Jeffward75
Bloomberg is a well known tobacco harm reduction denier. Accepting money from him is most definitely a conflict of interest. His money influences opinion and policy.
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Good old PMI the company that now wants a "Smoke Free World". Still managed to ship 621 billion cigarettes globally last year while BAT shipped 605 billion. And they both spent over $2.4 billion in F1 sponsorship because advertising doesn't attract kids.
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With the paltry jobs comes terrible destruction of valuable agricultural land and more global warming. What a dumb policy:
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Its just bizarre when a smoker claims to have "quit smoking" when they've simply "switched" long term to e-cigs. Like a drinker claiming to have "quit drinking" by "switching" to light beer. It likely confirms the brain changes (damage) occurring with nicotine addiction.
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It's funny how people making money from vapes think they know better than health authorities on harms. Evidence of ENDS to support cessation is questionable with the greater likelihood that ecigs lead to an increase in young people taking up smoking.
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Canadian survey data shows currently, two-thirds of e-cigarette users either continue to smoke cigarettes (36%) or have never smoked (33%). So much for harm reduction!
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@Peter_Fitz
I certainly won't spend money with any company that puts the whole community at risk by not discriminating based on vaccination status.
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"Nicotine in e-cig vapour promoted acute endothelial damage, pulmonary inflammation and chronic pulmonary functional and structural alterations." If this doesn't send shivers down the spines of vaping advocates, not sure what will.
#NotHarmReduction
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It's almost certain that oral and lung cancers will appear in the cohort of "exclusive vapers" in years to come. Only question is; which ecig users will get cancer and what will be the scale of the harms? Vaping may increase risk of cancer via
@YouTube
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Look at this electronic mass of plastic batteries and toxic chemicals to be used for a few days and then dumped in the pristine beachside environment where l walk. How many millions of tonnes of ecig waste can we look forward to over the next decade? That’s not harm reduction!
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Exclusive vapers found to have the highest levels of DNA damage. That doesn't sound like harm reduction!
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How could someone be so out of touch with their body to think that nicotine vaping is helping their anxiety instead of being the cause of it? Its called "withdrawal" for a reason.
#Addiction
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You can't be much of an environmentalist if you pump nicotine and toxic compounds into your lungs daily. But, next time you vape, try to think about the millions of tons of plastic and electronic waste from ecigs created every month. It's enough to make you, and the world sick.
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Harm reduction for drug policy makes complete sense while tobacco harm reduction is just industry spin to expand nicotine addiction and dual use harms
#QandA
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@GrogsGamut
@MelissaSweetDr
Just more Murdoch drivel. They need to get their daily quota of biased stories. I can't even see it as a news broadcaster anymore. Just a propaganda arm of arch conservatives and big business.
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@CraigNorenbergs
@Peter_Fitz
Its actually far overtime to get rid of the Union Jack on our flag and replace it with a more unifying symbol of our multinational society and indigenous history.
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So true and a lesson also for regional Australia which the developers are targeting with unsustainable population growth which will ruin our quality of life
@CCoastCouncil
#BetterNotBigger
#sustainableliving
Sydney is over — from glittering world city to sad wasteland. What happened? via
@newscomauHQ
A
#SustainableAustralia
will be
#BetterNotBigger
.
#jobs
#housing
#planning
#environment
🌏
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Of students who had ever used an e-cigarette (n = 2,403) 48% reported that they had never smoked a tobacco cigarette before their first vape (ASSAD Survey) That's not harm reduction!
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Yes call it what it is, a lie
@scomo
#negativegearing
Labor pounces on Scott Morrison's negative gearing 'lie' after release of secret briefing documents via
@abcnews
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@crikey_news
@MrKRudd
Time to call for crowdfunding for some bloody big billboards with quotes from Murdoch media demonstrating their "lack of bias"?
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Pro-vaping advocates may want to avoid reading these depressing findings on the efficacy of ecigs and NRTs for quitting. Further justification of the need for behavioural supports.
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When the rise in daily vape use is larger than the drop in daily smokers, you know you've just replaced one drug problem with another.
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More girls vaping now in the UK than were smoking 10 years ago. Now
@AshOrgUK
explain to their parents how this is harm reduction?
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While industry advocates want to claim its prior conditions not vaping that caused them. The ecig scourge in schools.
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I wonder what this kid or his parents think of so called "Tobacco Harm Reduction"?
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We always knew it would lead to this, with the vast majority of Australians agreeing with the policy, despite industry pushback. Vapes to be banned for recreational use, 'pharmaceutical' packaging to be required under crackdown via
@ABCaustralia
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Some claim ecigs are a miracle cure for quitting but the truth is nicotine is nicotine no matter what the delivery mechanism.
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@RonniSalt
Howard should be in jail for decisions which led to the killing of thousands of innocent Iraqis in a war that was completely contrived by Bush to steal their oil. Why he is still given airtime is another crime against humanity.
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Juul ignored teens? Hell no; they purposely targeted teens to get them hooked to boost their bottom line and also get a $12.8 billion buy-in from Altria. Any product that can addict youth to nicotine and also dual use is of great interest to
#bigtobacco
@InsidePMI
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Vaping advocates want to retain flavors in ecigs saying they are needed to attract quitters. This is despite evident harms emerging. Do they really think this is going to end well?
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Vaping is not a cessation tool; its mainly a 'get them hooked young' tool, a 'switching', and 'continue using nicotine' tool. That's why Big Tobacco will buy into any vaping product -JUUL, Elf Bar, Lost Mary etc.- that has a large market share with youth.
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"Nicotine is as addictive as “hard” drugs such as heroin. Smokers (now vapers) start the habit as children, are addicted to nicotine by the time they are adults, and thereafter the choice to stop becomes an illusion". If they could rewrite their ecig policy now, l bet they would.
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This is what an ecig prevalence curve looks like and it ain't pretty.
@CoralGartner
now tell us again about the paltry rise in youth ecig use?
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Never a vaper goes on to smoking? More delusional conjecture from the vaping brigade. In fact from 3%to over 10% of young ecig users also dual use combustibles.
@ChaunceyGardner
@TahirTturk
@US_FDA
Never a vaper goes to smoking. Non smokers do not know. But the smell of the tar is not good. İf someone begins vaping, he/she must be mad to smoke. Unless of course they are deprived from e-cigs. (They are nicotine addicts now)
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Imagine offering an obese person vanilla, cinnamon or mango flavoured doughnuts to help them with their food cravings? That's what flavoured ecigs are for smokers trying to quit. But flavours are great if you want to entice the young toward nicotine addiction.
#BanTobaccoFlavors
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When you advocate for a harmful product to be legalised you also accept responsibility for those harms to the most vulnerable. Five-year-old student taken to hospital after using vape at school
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"Although the UK government has introduced the tobacco & vapes bill, our findings indicate the need for even tighter regulation, fast! We could even be on the cusp of a new wave of chronic diseases to emerge 15 to 20 years from now." Lawsuits in years to come?
@RCPhysicians
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Tobacco use is declining in 150 countries, 56 of which are on track to achieve the global target of reducing tobacco use by 2025, despite tobacco industry interference. There are 19 million fewer current tobacco users globally than 2 years ago.
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"There are many concerning unknowns about vaping’s long term health impacts, especially for the younger, “never-smoked” generations – for whom flavoured vapes are the most attractive and common entry point." Big Tobacco's
#TrojanHorse
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We get smoking down to under 10% and now we have to deal with more than 30% of youth using ENDS. That's not harm reduction! Big Tobacco laughing all the way to the bank.
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"E acetate in the e-cig fluid doesn't reveal what chemicals were inhaled by people using these vaping devices. It's in liquid form and then you heat it to very high temperatures, and you aerosolize it. It changes the chemical constituents in that fluid."
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When pro-vaping advocates are asked about the teen vaping epidemic, they say nothing to see here. In fact, there is plenty to worry about for health authorities when the largest NZ school survey of kids in years 9–13 identifies 20% are vaping daily.
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Big Tobacco Double Speak:
'Harm Reduction' IS NOT 'Healthier'
'Switching' IS NOT 'Quitting'
'Addiction' IS NOT 'Fun'
'Vaping Nicotine' IS NOT 'Eating Eggplants'
'Public Health' IS NOT 'The Enemy'
THEY ARE.
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It's just bloody tragic that a first world country that produces all this waste thinks it is the responsibility of third world countries by shipping it there. Get your recycling house in order Australia!
Is
#recycling
all part of the "Growth/unsustainable scale" PR scam?
I have it on good authority (a mate who works there), that pretty much everything you put in your recycling bin, goes straight into landfill!
Then factor in energy & materials needed to process the rest... 🙄
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Why, despite all the evidence, does the broader community continue to turn a blind eye to the destruction of everything we love about the natural environment?
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I am waiting to see one, just one, valid argument -from a pro-vaping academic (vape shop owners excluded) - on why a prescription only model would not work if the claim is that ecigs are in fact a smoking cessation tool.
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Use of cannabis and nicotine together during pregnancy was associated with higher risks (twice as high) for infant death and maternal and neonatal morbidity compared with no exposure to either substance. Risks were 62% higher with nicotine use alone.
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Great to see Californians are not fooled by big tobacco's attempts to hook their kids to their latest novel tobacco products by passing Prop 31 with 62.2% of the vote!
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Smoking prevalence went from 1 cig per week in 1900 to 83 cigs per week in 1963 largely due to mass production, mildness, packaging, convenience and addictiveness. Celeb endorsements played an important part. The industry hasn't changed much.
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@TheRealPBarry
Its obvious why Rupert chose Lachlan over James. Lachlan has the same far right wing views on all issues including climate change. Its also why they go for guys like Tony Abbott on their board. No changes to policy here!
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How does this qualify as harm reduction when 15 year old never smokers have amongst the biggest uptake of ecigs? This is why strict controls are needed on nicotine products.
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You want to reduce smoking prevalence? This is how you do it: Keep increasing restrictions on sales, increasing excise tax annually, and force big tobacco to reduce nicotine levels until they are non existent.
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