via The New York Times. #tobaccocontrol #bigtobacco nytimes.com/2023/03/27/us/…

Many young people are struggling with feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression. To cope, they may turn to vaping, not realizing that nicotine can actually make some #mentalhealth symptoms worse. #mentalhealthmonth

Really? ... PS with our foot flat to floor selling and marketing deadly cigarettes to whomever and wherever we can, while ruthlessly opposing all measures to reduce smoking.

I often hear "the vaping genie has escape the bottle .. too late to introduce controls now." Imagine if we'd taken that defeatest attitude with smoking when >40% smoked at least weekly in 1965 (now ~10%)

"Nothing used for a day or two should pollute our environment for hundreds of years." @Jamie_Ducharme details the impact of disposable, single-use products, which make up over HALF of U.S. e-cigarette sales as of March 2023 in TIME w/ Beverly Self: fal.cn/3zRDQ

An NPR report highlights how illegal, flavored e-cigarettes continue to flood the market, impacting kids and their families. To end this crisis, the FDA Tobacco must eliminate all flavored e-cigarettes. npr.org/2023/07/12/118…

British American Tobacco would have us believe they care about the environment - your green-washing BS Meter should be red-lining - traditional cigarettes are the most littered item on the planet and disposable vapes are also a disaster.

MarcGunther Truth Initiative Filter | harm reduction journalism You mean just like the tobacco industry lumps the two together and profits from both?

Looking forward to hearing about your partnership with Phillip Morris next. Jesus wept.

Vaping the single largest risk factor for smoking uptake in teens, #ASSAD research finds. Quotes from Prof Sarah Durkin Cancer Council Victoria, Terry Slevin publichealthaus.bsky.social @DrBFreeman and ANU Media Emily Banks with thanks to @Natasha_May Guardian Australia theguardian.com/society/2023/a…

"The strongest smoking-initiation risk factor identified was ever use of e-cigarettes, with social norms, harm misperceptions around low-rate tobacco use and mental health also linked to smoking susceptibility." Our latest article published today is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anzj…

Australia breaches WHO treaty with carbon neutral certification of big tobacco company theguardian.com/business/2023/…

ALERT: Foundation for a Smoke-Free World has named Clifford E. Douglas as its new CEO mailchi.mp/exposetobacco/…

Tax on vapes could be part of plans to create a smoke-free generation in UK theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Big tobacco is trying to hide its greed behind ‘harm reduction’ thehill.com/opinion/health…

British American Tobacco makes first donation to Nationals in over a decade amid vaping crackdown theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Martin Dockrell, tobacco control programme lead at England’s public health body, met Juul’s co-founder and two other company executives in private while attending a nicotine conference in Warsaw, Poland thetimes.co.uk/article/civil-…

Vaping debate: doctor’s reticence over declaring tobacco money raises questions over conflict of interest theguardian.com/australia-news…

Australian vaping laws watered down in political compromise. Australian Greens #vaping