The US government rolled out Armored vehicles and troops in tactical gear to terrorize American Vapor Distributors on behalf of Big Tobacco. The GOVERNMENT held up our American made Vapor products and lied through their teeth. They claimed 90% of products seized were

New study added today thanks to Arielle Selya and Jukka Kelovuori. If anyone sees errors in my brief summaries, please let me know. But we just don't know, right? No long-term data, right? Not enough evidence, right? (Only >10,000 scientific studies; they've only been used for

“If it were not for the nicotine in tobacco smoke, people would be little more inclined to smoke than they are to blow bubbles” M A H Russell, tobacco researcher, 1974

“They spend their lives restricting people’s freedoms and then demand to be recognised as defenders of human rights.” 🎯

I love that Dave Portnoy does this for small business! So cool that he’s out here in Utah.

Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.

More teens use cannabis than vape nicotine (intoxicates; no deaths) More teens use alcohol than vape nicotine (intoxicates; 4,000 teen deaths/year) More politicians are alarmed about teen nicotine use than cannabis or alcohol. 🙄 (nicotine does not intoxicate; no deaths)

Our members aren’t asking for special treatment – just for the American vaping industry to have the same chance of success as everyone else.

Brilliant essay here by James Dieghan that cuts to the very heart of the THR struggle and how to confront the War on Vaping. x.com/thoughtsmoke_/…

The WHO tobacco control treaty meetings are closed bubbles of cultivated groupthink - a comparison with the UN climate change treaty - The Counterfactual clivebates.com/the-who-tobacc…

How to Prohibit Things 101: 1) Claim companies that make [A] "target children" 2) Claim "[A] is a gateway to [B]" 3) Claim that everyone who shares evidence contradicting 1 & 2 must work for industry A = Adult thing that a few kids use illegally B = Truly scary thing