One question I get a lot is "What explains your asymmetric focus on Democrats and the Left?" The short answer, after some soul searching and introspection, is simply this: "The Gaslighting of Experts." I see the Republican party fighting the experts they oppose. I don't see

Which national tobacco control director is following the evidence to help folks to quit smoking and which one is fabricating evidence to fit a political and financial narrative to stop them from quitting, Rep. Jack Bergman?

This is huge from Ed Jegasothy in The Lancet Public Health. No evidence that sky high tobacco excise has accelerated smoking decline in Australia. If that’s the case it’s difficult to justify plummeting revenue, inequitable impact on low SES households, and massive black market expansion.

IQOS is an illusion? These guys are delusional.

🚨 BREAKING: In a major blow to federal agencies like FDA, SCOTUS has overruled the Chevron doctrine, which required courts to defer to the legal interpretations of unelected bureaucrats. “Chevron is overruled.”

I once again bring up this moment from Dinosaurs. A show that aired 30 years ago.

"In an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court last year by [vaping companies and organizations], lawyers ... explained how the FDA took advantage of Chevron deference to create a maze of unattainable (and largely undefined) standards." vaping360.com/vape-news/7283…

No one knows it seems, but the Royal Navy is already smoke free.

Do we need a better example of why Chevron had to go?

Simon Cowell credits vaping with helping him quit smoking clearingtheair.eu/en/post/simon-…

Right on! The vape industry was created by pioneers, not corporate governance. The risk takers that tried it themselves and realized there is something of value here. The smokers themselves shared it with their smoking friends and an industry was born. Credit to the risk takers!!

The latest vaping law changes in Australia are failing as they have inadvertently pushed adults back to smoking traditional cigarettes. By restricting access to vaping products, many adults who relied on vaping to quit smoking are now forced to buy from black markets at inflated

Breaking: "at the local black market shop today... $40 for an iget bar $50 for a moon and between $9 - $16 for a packet of cigarettes and heaps of stock!" says one reliable NSW source. Is this what success looks like Mark Butler MP ?

"...fully two-thirds of thousands of San Antonio students who faced disciplinary consequences under House Bill 114 since it took effect last September were inhaling THC....a far smaller proportion were caught with nicotine." expressnews.com/news/education…

New Zealand is set to officially be given smoke-free status by the end of the year, thanks to promoting vaping as a tool to quit. buff.ly/3Yxpr0N

The public is told e-cigarettes have created a "whole new generation addicted to nicotine." ANYONE can #FactCheck this claim from CDC & NIH surveys. US high school use of cigarettes or e-cigarettes 1975: 25% 1982: 20.5% 1992: 21.5% 2002: 22.5% 2012: 17.0% 2023: 11.0 2023

“While not supported by most tobacco control organizations and agencies, the advent of electronic cigarettes will -- if trends are allowed to continue -- one day be looked at as the end game strategy that made smoking history.” tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-da…

I don't understand how this right here doesn't stop the nicotine debate dead in it's tracks.

Tobacco control research priorities are off-the-rails 85% of all tobacco control research on Earth is funded by NIH 50% of NIH tobacco control research focuses on teens 98% of Americans who BUY nicotine products are adults 100% of tobacco-related deaths are adults

"Despite its acknowledgement that e-cigarettes overall are less harmful and less toxic than combustible cigarettes, the agency has rejected more than 99 percent of PMTAs for these products. At the same time, the FDA has authorized 6,670 new combustible tobacco products to be sold