After 1500 hours of work, we published the dismantling of the 23 scientific publications which concluded that among teenagers vaping was a Gateway to cigarettes 🚬while the data from 23 articles explain at most 5.3% of cigarette experimentation and neglect the opposite effect🙀

In a letter published today in the BMJ, we call for urgent action to correct misperceptions of vaping. As long as public perceptions of vaping are misaligned with evidence, the opportunity for vaping to further reduce smoking is being missed. bmj.com/content/391/bm…

“Wetenschappers roepen op tot dringende actie om misvattingen over vapen te corrigeren. Deze misvatting belemmert het terugdringen van het aantal rokers.”

NEW: COP-11 - a survival guide for delegates. clivebates.com/cop11/ There is only one big, workable, forward-looking idea in tobacco and nicotine policy: Make nicotine use much safer. Yet backwards-looking prohibitionists at #COP11 and WHO FCTC are trying to obstruct it.

Cigarette discontinuation rates increased for those who vaped menthol/mint flavor, fruit/sweet/other flavor, any combination flavor, disposables, cartridge devices, tanks, those aged 18-24 and those aged 25+. Everything but tobacco flavor, it seems. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-ar…

Nicotine gets blamed for everything — but it’s not the killer. It’s the smoke. And science has known this for a while…

Waarom tonen studies een opstap naar roken, terwijl cijfers een afstap laten zien? Oorzaak: slechte onderzoeksopzet. In werkelijkheid kiezen jongeren vaak voor e-sigaretten als alternatief, wat wijst op een afstap effect in plaats van een opstap effect.

"Gunshots were fired at a BMW SUV parked at the side of the Belair Avenue business." "The business, formerly called Glenroy Cigarettes, has been subjected to repeated firebombings and a drive-by shooting over the past 18 months." In case of paywall: archive.vn/gi6SS

Desinformatie en overheidsbeleid dwingen rokers tot alles-of-niets, terwijl minder schadelijke alternatieven direct schade verminderen.

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Cancer Institute NSW At a time of increasing smoking, it's astounding to see this kind of public scare campaigning regarding the #1 smoking cessation/substitution technology. See below for a credible take on the research on the "highly unlikely" link between vaping and cancer: youtube.com/watch?v=D_B9Ec…

For some countries at COP11 there was a “wait a minute” moment. You can’t shove nicotine prohibition down our throats - it is too much like colonialism (Bloomberg as the new Columbus). Others are realizing that safer nicotine products can save millions of lives #vapingsaveslives

Known risk factors for lung cancer, heart disease, COPD and stroke. Note, vaping nowhere to be seen. We're 20 odd years in. So, how long more do we have to wait before the penny drops and we accept switching from smoking to e-cigarettes reduces harm and prolongs life?

Classic black market adaptation. With sufficient demand, illicit supply flows like water around whatever obstacles are put in its way. If govt is serious about reducing the illicit market, increase supply of legal nicotine products, particularly less harmful ones such as vapes.

De resultaten van onze laatste enquête zijn gepubliceerd in het vape magazine Esigbond smaaknoodzaak Emil 't Hart #smaaknoodzaak.nl plop

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! Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC) WHO FCTC World Health Organization (WHO) ASH New Zealand Martin Dockrell

Bron: Clean Air Nederland “Smaakjesverbod vapes werkt niet” ⁦⁦AcVoDa⁩ ⁦Judith Tielen⁩ ⁦Tweede Kamer⁩ share.google/c9KJ2zJnCypZPb…

Really? Did no one see this coming? And the only answer is more enforcement? Much too late for that. The only pragmatic solution is to incentivize safe nicotine products over cigarettes and educate the public (be truthful). Then the market takes over and 🚬 are eliminated. #THR