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Good to see the medical community coming around to admitting the harms caused by the war on drugs, even if they don't go far enough to say that it's time to end prohibition. @CatoHealth thelancet.com/journals/lanhi…

@LocalBakeBrew @WUTangKids Nicotine vaping never caused a case of popcorn lung. Diacetyl, the chemical that causes popcorn lung is present in cigarettes at around 70x the amount that was ever found in vapes (it’s now banned) & there has never been a case of popcorn lung in a smoker.

@WUTangKids Vaping creates popcorn lungs and the damage isn’t reversible

Vapes are worse for you than regular cigs per multiple studies, Mr. Brain worm! uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/…

@RomanNumeral_IV @WUTangKids Wrong.

@WUTangKids Vaping has literally created NEW diseases that doctors had never seen before due to the new mixtures of chemicals in vapes.

POLICY COLLAPSE | Vape Bans and Australia’s Illicit Tobacco Crisis. @AlexWodak "explains how Australia’s approach has veered into “quasi prohibition,” driving demand into the black market and overwhelming enforcement." gfn.tv/vids/gfntv-int…

It's beginning to look suspicious to me that many anti-vaping studies recently are originating in Australia. Is the government somehow involved in generating studies to support its draconian vaping laws? Here's another one today on metals in e-cigarettes. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

Phil makes a good point. The very first line of the abstract should never have passed your peer-reviewers or your editors. Please stop approving papers that demonstrably lie. Teen use has plummeted; THEY claim it has increased. Middle & high school “current use” (≥once/month) 2019: 4.5% smoked; 20% vaped (3.7% vaped daily) cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6… 2025: 1.4% smoke; 5.2% vape (1.4% vape daily) tobaccocrst.org/data-briefs

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

@atrupar "“We set out to determine if scientists agree on whether nicotine e-cigarettes help people quit smoking,” says Hartmann-Boyce, the study's senior author. “Based on the consistency of the findings here, it’s clear that they do.”" umass.edu/public-health-…

@JulianHillMP "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

This is the saddest thing to see. People who don’t understand vaping and/or lack the ability to critically think get on social media and parrot the anti vaping propaganda. Now we have people excited to quit vaping and switch to smoking, that’s a public health tragedy!

Nicotine-based vapes (e-cigarettes) cause selective junk "science" and "research" to be produced, published, then scrutinized, exposing authors to community notes.

#NonCombustibleNicotine #VapingSavesLives #AdultsLikeFlavors #VapingIsNotSmoking #TobaccoHarmReduction

@Southernvaper1 That's good. I may use it. :-) Reminds me something I used to tell my students: - the job of a good teacher is to make things seem simple - the job of a good student is to realize that they're not

"Tobacco harm reduction expert @Clive_Bates put the logic bluntly in 2021: The evidence indicates that nicotine vaping was not the cause of the outbreak."

Europe’s vape ban fantasy is fueling black markets and sending smokers back to cigarettes brusselssignal.eu/2026/04/europe…

🎉For the first time ever, there are more vapers than smokers in the UK! Smoking has roughly halved among UK adults over the last decade, as reported by a recent #CoEHAR analysis. smokefreesweden.org/2026/04/16/uk/

The tobacco control industry: taxes are the single most effective way to reduce smoking rates. Also the tobacco control industry: the highest tax on vaping in Europe won't deter people from vaping and promote smoking instead. 🤡 #WorseThanBigTobacco liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

Dr. Alex Wodak discusses Australia's #tobacco crisis caused by high taxes and #vaping restrictions, leading to a thriving illicit #market and organised crime. gfn.tv/vids/gfntv-int…

6.9 million GB ADULTS now vape nicotine The UK's NHS "Yellow Card" scheme collects info on side effects and adverse incidents. It allows patients, caregivers and health professionals to report concerns. Vaping? No significant concerns. No "EVALI." No "popcorn lung." So?

@Algore09algor Repeating the same mistakes, over and over, is not a sane policy. Yet that is the only answer they have...