Dr Ruth Sharrock, who leads on tobacco dependency for the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System - "In the North East we have been able to use vapes as an invaluable part of the strategy to help smokers to quit smoking." #vaping chroniclelive.co.uk/news/health/fi…

Hey world, you should follow Australia's world leading prohibition on consumer #vapes. We've tried it three times and the results are fantastic for our tax revenue on smokes and the black market are also cheering us on. Let's not worry about health!

Now served with a community note.

This message to me about #vapers returning to smoking represents just the tip of the iceberg By any measure, it is a monumental public health failure Mark Butler MP Anne Ruston David Littleproud MP Senator Matt Canavan Ross Cadell @senatorJordon @adambandt Emma Davidson ACT ☀️ David Pocock

Australia lacks sufficiently frequent surveillance of smoking & vaping to be able to detect smoking increasing resulting from over zealous anti vaping policies. New Zealand has better surveillance than Oz Dr Joe

A study is reported as showing that #vaping causes impaired cognitive function However, it doesnt show this at all medicalrepublic.com.au/this-is-your-b… My published comment ⤵️ via The Medical Republic

Dr Colin Mendelsohn TGA Australia Mark Butler MP This is such an injustice. A specific law for a specific product. This has to be unprecedented.

Today has definitely confirmed (for me at least) that Mark Butler MP Dr Sandro Demaio Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social et Al have absolutely zero duty of care. They would rather see 1.7 million return to cigarettes and die than give them the opportunity to save their own lives with vaping.Disgusting

Make Vape Prohibition Great Again

Mark Butler MP No. This is what you have done 1️⃣Made it much harder for adult smokers to switch to a far safer alternative 2️⃣Sent many vapers back to smoking 3️⃣Created a thriving black market run by criminal gangs that sells unregulated vapes to kids Overall, a massive public health fail

Sarah Jackson Unless we look at smoking and vaping together, recognising that the are substitutes we *cannot* have the full picture for policy advice. This was my illustration of similar phenomena (different data) for the US comparing 2014 and 2023 for young adults.

It's 11 years today that I quit and yet in my heart, I'm still a smoker. Vaping saved my life.

Hot tip to grandparents of toddlers... Put whatever you want them to take notice of or play with beyond their reach. They'll love it and you more than if you just give it to them. Dan Wuori

Cheers to this young man and his colleagues.

The government has revealed the platforms that are going to be under their proposed social media ban. 17-year-old 6 News Anchor Leonardo Puglisi joined us.

It really does warrant repeating, from Clive Bates at the #ecigsummit.

How does a vaper not feel anger, sadness, and a lack of worth, when your govt & public health don't care about you. My father died from a heart attack when I was 12. Mum had to work more to put food on the table. I started smoking at 14. I went into my rebellious years. 1/5

December Issue: AOD service clients reported they were less accepting of retail density reduction and reducing nicotine content of tobacco products and were highly accepting of a subsidy to support nicotine vaping product access for tobacco cessation bit.ly/3V7AGdE

Maybe fat unfit men should also do more housework!

To me, this is the single most important research finding on addiction in 2024. The key finding was that, "The majority of brain structure features associated with substance use initiation were evident among substance-naive children at baseline who later initiated."