Everyone who has ever or will ever consider donating to the American Lung Association ought to know that this is what they lobby for. They want adults to be misinformed so that those adults will do what they're told and support whatever policies groups like ALA say they should.

1/ The American Lung Association is telling FDA to withhold accurate information about e-cigarettes. This violates basic public health ethics and will keep people smoking. What's going on?reason.com/2023/09/05/ame… via reason

There is no evidence that e-cigarettes cause popcorn lung. In fact, all of the evidence points to the contrary. reason.org/backgrounder/d… via Reason Foundation michelleminton

#vaping does NOT cause 'popcorn lung'. Can we please put this myth to rest now? This is a tactic to create fear where NO risk exists, and even appears in the 2022 NHMRC CEO statement (page 5) Excellent review of the evidence by michelleminton ⤵️ reason.org/backgrounder/d…

Excited to share a new working paper using sales data through March 2023 to find that state and local laws restricting flavors in #ecigs increase cigarette sales, including for cigarette brands disproportionately used by youth. 1/5 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

There you have it. Israel's president Isaac Herzog makes the Israeli state's official position abundantly clear: that the Palestinian civilian population have collective guilt. This is the mentality which, throughout history, leads to genocide.

BREAKING: 80 rabbis and rabbinical students across denominations and political affiliations have issued a video statement urging the larger Jewish community and U.S. representatives to call for a ceasefire in Gaza now. Watch, share, and add your name: tinyurl.com/rabbis4ceasefi…

“A genocide and holocaust is unfolding in Gaza before the eyes of the world.” —Al Jazeera reporter Wael Dahdouh

People in Gaza are dying in the darkness. This unthinkable horror cannot be undone — and history will not forgive those who refused to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth. Please, we need a ceasefire, now.

Message from Gaza . Please please stop

Was great to join CASAA Live yesterday. Come for the deep thought and reflection by Helen Redmond © and michelleminton, stay for my jokes.

The amount of first amendment rights violations I have witnessed over the last 60 days has been breath-taking. But it doesn't get much closer to what the framers actually envisioned when they thought of 1st amend. violations than this: thewrap.com/attorneys-gene…

Because the Biden administration stands almost alone on the world stage in defending and enabling the far-right Israeli government’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, administration officials must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women,

This is the best primer on the salty scientific debate over sodium and blood pressure I've seen since writing my own little book on the topic. #nonotes youtube.com/watch?v=HMsbl2…

My colleague michelleminton in The Hill yesterday on the implications of federal rescheduling of cannabis: thehill.com/opinion/464401…

And while I'm (temporarily) out of twitter retirement, let me make my stance on what's happening in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities abundantly clear: Abolish ICE.