Cliff Douglas
@cdoug
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Former CEO GlobalActiontoEndSmoking, VP Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society, Advisor to US Asst. Sec. for Health & Surgeon General. Adjunct Prof @umichsph
Michigan
Joined October 2008
I'm hoping to get some help and visibility on this post for YouTube. I want this done in a professional and respectful manner. No RAGE, no aggression. This is a calm and respectful campaign. If i've ever helped you, i'm asking for your help now. 👇
After 16 years, my @YouTube channel (GrimmGreen) was terminated today with no real explanation. I’ve built my content around harm reduction, helping adult smokers quit, and advocating for science-based policies. This feels like a huge mistake. If you believe in THR, free
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Kudos to @FDATobacco for taking an important step in support of helping millions of adults who smoke move effectively down the “continuum of risk” of tobacco and nicotine products. THIS WILL SAVE LIVES.
Right ON! @FDATobacco gets it right. “Have the potential to provide a benefit to adults who smoke cigarettes and/or use other smokeless tobacco products that is sufficient to outweigh the risks of the products, including to youth.” https://t.co/DV64wnvkj6
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Agree 100% that @TeamYouTube should promptly reinstate the @GrimmGreen channel, which is an indispensable educational outlet for hundreds of thousands of followers who NEED this invaluable information. It is truly a public health service. Please do not kill free speech of this
@TeamYouTube @GrimmGreen I hope @TeamYouTube reconsiders the closure of the @GrimmGreen channel. This is a globally significant centre of expertise and insight for people who want to reduce risks from smoking. Harm reduction is an effective strategy in many areas of public health, including tobacco.
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“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” - One special fellow, Attorney General Tom Miller, quoting another special fellow, Albert Einstein.
A.G. Tom Miller confronts the deep divide inside public health, and scores FDA and CTP on vaping progress. Is misinformation tilting scales toward prohibition? @swimdaily @NannyFreeState @Protectaxpayers @ChaunceyGardner @cdoug @alli_vapes @INNCOorg @GFNicotine @GrimmGreen
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This brief critique of @WHO's opposition to the clear lifesaving promise of reduced-risk, noncombustible nicotine products is worth the two minutes it takes to read it: https://t.co/tqJopEiZ5l WHO uses the tobacco industry as a convenient straw man to argue against tobacco harm
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Excellent interview from a true leader and humanitarian 👇👇
PROGRESS & PERIL | A.G. Miller Scores Smoking, Vaping & Public Health | RegWatch *Guest: A.G. Tom Miller @swimdaily @NannyFreeState @Protectaxpayers @ChaunceyGardner @cdoug @alli_vapes @INNCOorg @GFNicotine @GrimmGreen @LegionVaping
https://t.co/Q4iRE1dUko
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#DiscomfortOfThought coming in 🔥 from @NannyFreeState writing for @Filtermag_org. Could we get less wrong, together? Ideology and Bloomberg Dollars Distort Global Tobacco Treaty
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Once trusted to champion evidence-based public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has slipped into an increasingly ideological stance on ...
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Yes, this. 👇👇
New Zealand receives prestigious real-world Orchid award for record-breaking, world-leading declines in smoking driven by vaping, including Māori, and especially youth. Amazing job! Aotearoa Smokefree 2025! @GATC_int @FCTCofficial @WHO @ASHNZ2025 @DockrellMartin
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The @WHO is busy doing works of pure evil in Vietnam… where male smoking prevalence = 42% in 2024. Yet WHO demands stronger prohibitions of the far safer alternatives to cigarettes. Grotesque. Has @JeremyFarrar approved this unethical, anti-scientific crusade? #accountability
WHO: the National Assembly’s November 2024 ban on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products should be appropriately reflected in all relevant legislation. One year ago, Viet Nam’s decision to ban e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products was a major public health victory and a
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A recent BMJ article (linked in the post below) suggested e-cigarettes are compromising children's human rights. Our response argues that proportionate, evidence-led regulation best protects children's rights. Read it here:
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Globally, children are now using e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults, largely because of the nicotine industry targeting youth. This Analysis argues for an approach to regulation that prioritises children’s rights https://t.co/yd3eyL5PpN
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I’m a doctor who has seen people die from vaccine-preventable diseases. What parents need to hear right now is vaccines for measles, polio, hepatitis B and other childhood diseases are safe and effective and will not cause autism. Any statement to the contrary is wrong,
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This is so dumb. If Big Tobacco is targeting kids with #vaping products, they are doing a very poor job. Teen daily use of any #nicotine product is at a historic low. But millions of adults have quit #smoking by #vaping--a big win for public health. https://t.co/5eFIheDdaB
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Data from the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) show more than 1.6 million middle and high school students using e-cigarettes in 2024, the most common form of tobacco use among youth in the...
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My unfiltered comment in this important article from @Filtermag_org by @KiranSidhu41: “His defamation of leading scientists suggests he can’t win on the merits and knows it. And so he shoots the messenger, which is the lowest art form of the propagandist.”
"The strategy, as many have reflected, appears to be that if you can’t win the argument, try to discredit the messenger," writes @KiranSidhu41. "It’s little wonder, then, that in the runup to COP11, such attacks seem to have escalated." https://t.co/cDzyjpYw4R
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@jgitchell This expert wall is not (only) an appeal to authority. It is a convincing empirical refutation of the claim that tobacco harm reduction is merely an industry scam. Even if some activists disagree with these experts, they have to accept these independent views are sincerely held.
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@cdoug A strong comment for #COP11FCTC from Cliff Douglas @cdoug
@FCTCofficial should note: https://t.co/xERKK297fU
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It is saddening that the Director General of @WHO has been misled into believing - and I think he does truly believe - the sophisticated but false narrative that tobacco harm reduction is simply an industry plot, when IN FACT reduced-risk nicotine products have already saved many
Aggressive marketing of e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches is fueling a new wave of addiction among young people. This is not harm reduction – it’s profit-driven tactics by companies seeking to keep our kids addicted to nicotine. @WHO has released a new position paper on tobacco
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“'Massive Milestone' as Vaping Overtakes Smoking in Britain": More adults in the UK are now using vapes than smoking cigarettes, with 10% vaping and 9.1% smoking -- down from 10.5 percent in 2023. Daily vaping is most common among adults between the ages of 25-49.
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For the very first time, more adults in Great Britain are using vapes than are smoking cigarettes. New data from ...
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Some highlights: "Public health organizations that focus exclusively on the potential risks of vaping for young people – risks that, frankly, have been grossly exaggerated – are likely to be damaging the health of the public." Kenneth E Warner (@Umich) 1/n
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My perspective amplified here.👇 It is time for profound change in @WHO's approach to the science and policy implications of safer nicotine products. What will it take to turn the elephant around? Ending biased groupthink and recognizing the (actual) expert consensus is a good
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