Thread: What happens in the real world when flavor bans are implemented 1. 'San Francisco’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales was associated with increased smoking among minor high school students relative to other school districts.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

1. I know all about it. I represented a company that marketed vapes (not Juul, unfortunately). Matt Myers and his Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (and his friends at FDA CTP recognized that when kids were tobacco-free, his organization would cease to have a reason to exist.

12 years ago I was just a girl behind the vape shop counter helping people quit smoking… life felt a lot simpler back then. 😶‍🌫️

New Substack post, Part 1 of my @GFN25 keynote on the state of the academic research on nicotine/tobacco. Part 1: Common Flaws in the Research Part 2 (forthcoming) will be "how did it get this way" (academic structural incentives). arielleselyaphd.substack.com/p/the-state-of…

Study suggests vapes "increasingly acting as ‘gateway’ for children,” the Guardian claimed, “undermining falling rates of teen smoking.” It doesn't show that, Dr. Arielle Selya tells Kiran Sidhu & researchers' interpretation shows "confirmation bias": filtermag.org/media-research…

Janine, ignore them and do stealth vaping. Vaping in open outdoors poses ZERO risk to bystanders. These bylaws are not “protecting” anyone, their purpose is to shame vapers and create public disgust on vaping. Authorities did the same “denormalization” in the past to dark skinned

RFK Jr., the HHS Secretary, states that nicotine pouches are the safest way to consume nicotine, and vapes are the second-best alternative to cigarettes.

And why is that? We'll let Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman explain. youtube.com/shorts/1hhLwiX…

"Note the irony that Philip Morris, but not the CTFK or other anti-tobacco groups, is encouraging smoking cessation by switching to much safer alternatives. The health groups seem perfectly content to have the 28 million current smokers in the US continue smoking if they are

TUSM’s Michael Siegel (Michael Siegel) comments on a new study that finds American doctors are withholding potentially life-saving information from patients who smoke by not discussing alternative nicotine products. 🚬 Tufts Public Health 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/qhLu50WQp7Y

10 years today I quit 40 yrs of smoking. From giving up trying to quit after many failed attempts, feeling shame, worried about my health, to this! Hiking in Utah with newfound confidence. I'm a proud accidental quitter who wants others to have the same chance at a better life.

“Once again, a study on the effects of flavor bans for e-cigarettes. And once again, we see that young people are vaping less. Unfortunately, this is compensated by a similar increase in smoking. The net effect is therefore negative.”

Dutch doctors want Snapchat fined for teens buying vapes. Maybe they should ask why kids are buying them from criminals in the first place. Hint: flavour bans. clearingtheair.eu/post/dutch-doc…

A reminder from 2016 of why adults should have access to safer nicotine in all its forms…

Breaking: Cigarettes are so safe, Dr. Marty Makary FDA Tobacco do not "call on" cigarette manufacturers to use child resistant packaging to protect American children from accidental exposure.

You gotta be kidding me... reuters.com/sustainability…

Great advice from NZ Emiratus Professor Ruth Bonita👇🏾So, what’s next? Repealing the ban on oral nicotine pouches (as promised by the current Government) is the missing piece of the ‘how to get to or below 5% smoking’. Sweden is proof (see Smoke Free Sweden study Power in a

The vaping raid announced today wasn't just for Chinese disposables. Statement from Midwest Distributing: "The vast majority of the products listed on the warrant are over 75 brands of bottled e-liquids for use in refillable, open-system devices. These bottled e-liquids are