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Public health can't be shrouded in secrecy and disinformation. Combating anti-vaping FUD and Bloomberg effects. --Mario

Germany / EU Katılım Kasım 2019
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Maggie Mae Fish 🌈@MaggieMaeFish·
So... what's up with these anti-vaping ads? "Thank you for Watching" my new video where I D.A.R.E. to investigate exactly how effective these PSAs are. Do Anti-Vaping Ads want you to Vape? 😶‍🌫️youtube.com/watch?v=bbV6I8…
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@psychheals Use frequency is a function of steady nicotine-only leveling in absence of MAOIs and prolonged dopamine highs. (Though interaction from e.g. adapted caffeine consumption patterns are less well researched.)
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dr. alexander ツ@psychheals·
The latest pharmacokinetic studies show e-cigarettes deliver similar levels of #nicotine to people who use e-cigarettes compared to conventional cigarettes. But... people who #vape often tend to do it continuously throughout a session or even throughout the day, while smoking
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@jennifer_plumb Embellishments aside, glad you wrote nicotine dependence. But what did the 3% originate from? Isolated from device power and plume size, that's at best irrelevant or arbitrary to quantify any prevention effect from. (Impression being to curtail cessation efficacy under pretense.)
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@hapn_news @AlexWodak To be fair, having some vendors there would spur some pharmacy superstition and more quit attempts. Such "regulation" improving safety is a smokescreen however. It's merely an obstruction scheme to prevent convenient consumer access to NVPs (quitting aid is a byproduct really).
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@hapn_news @AlexWodak Valid question, but you kinda answered it yourself. It's not just affordability but approval inhibition. There's also no indication the FUD and lobbying wouldn't also affect pharmacy-grade vapes (and TBH technology isn't quite there yet for e.g. sonic vaporizers.)
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Alex Wodak AM
Alex Wodak AM@AlexWodak·
Amazing things happen when you try to ignore powerful market forces! 1.3 million Australians now vape. If governments make vaping hard/impossible to get, they buy them from black market which pays ~$3 per vape & sells for ~$30-40 per vape. Surely Simon can understand that?
Dr Joe@drjoesDIYhealth

Vaping ban likely to fuel black market: emails reveal drug advisory group’s fears watoday.com.au/politics/feder… When at first you fail, double down on failure. Follow ideology and ignore facts - that is how policy rolls in Australia @AlexWodak @vaper_the @VaperNt @LivePippas

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@RenateKuenast 130.000 Menschen sterben am Verbrennungsrauch - nicht am Tabak oder Nikotin. Tabakerhitzer sind überdies nicht nur Nikotin (ähnliche psychoaktive Zusätze wie in Zigaretten). Aber Parallelnutzungs-Aromen (tabak-ähnlich) tragen gewiss nicht zum Senken der Raucherquoten bei.
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Renate Künast
Renate Künast@RenateKuenast·
Apfel, Minze, Pomelo, Grape - das sind keine Eissorten, sondern das ist die Regelungslücke bei Aromen bei Nikotinerzeugnissen. Wir müssen den Einstieg in den Ausstieg schaffen. Meine ganze Rede zum Verbot von Aroma-#Tabak in #Tabakerhitzern 👉🏻 #url=L21lZGlhdGhla292ZXJsYXk/dmlkZW9pZD03NTU1NzAx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bundestag.de/mediathek?vide… /TK
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@pharmacistfi Good find. But TL; didn't skim. Aren't the "lower levels" still from a mist of undiluted diacetyl upon the unsuspecting cell cultures? Not sure that's even an indicator study. Let alone validating the flawed premise or the authors` insinuated urban myth. twitter.com/DrGilchrist/st…
Dr. Moira Gilchrist@DrGilchrist

Anyone want to play bingo? 🤦‍♀️Popcorn lung 🤦‍♀️e-cig use an important risk factor for COVID-19 🤦‍♀️adolescent e-cig users 5x more likely to be diagnosed w COVID-19 Bonus: 🤯Exposing cells to pure diacetyl vapor produces toxicity 🤯From a @Nature journal nature.com/articles/s4142…

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PHARMACIST Fi
PHARMACIST Fi@pharmacistfi·
Did you know some ingredients in some types of e-cigarettes or vaping products might cause a severe drug reaction called EVALI in some people? Here's a video for you about ingredients to avoid and 10 other Tips to try to minimize vaping risks: youtu.be/lUOqGKmD5-U
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@pharmacistfi Also sorry. I realize that was just an aside. It just so happens to be a fairly strong quality indicator. It's not even a hypothetical hazard, but a fictional one. Thanks for the context and the sourcing hints. (Kinda liked parts of the video, btw.)
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@pharmacistfi That was a precautionary ban. None of the commercial liquids had concentrations close to combustibles prior. cmaj.ca/content/re-vap… Was mainly a hazard, not a risk. Diacetyl nowadays persists as processing remnant (flavouring agent amalgamations). Or in low-quality CN imports.
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PHARMACIST Fi
PHARMACIST Fi@pharmacistfi·
@Honesty_Init Here's Canada's advice re: avoiding vaping liquid skin contact #a8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">canada.ca/en/health-cana…, & I would be very interested to see your evidence re: diacetyl, given that the UK, Canada & Australia ban e-cigarettes & vaping products containing it.
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@stevesvapes More of a spam victim (and inadvertent multiplexer) really. It's quite shocking how much research was spent on this video, yet still parroted the misattribution FUD. ("Let's ignore all the indicators, so we just can't be sure if some wasn't from nicotine vapes.")
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@JoossensLuk @BathTR @SimonChapman6 No doubt @BathTR contributed to reducing industry interference. But they resorted to becoming astroturf contractors. Habitual slander undermines credibility. They’re likely a cuckoo`s egg for genuine tobacco control.
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Luk Joossens
Luk Joossens@JoossensLuk·
it seems that the vaping community has plenty of time and don’t like the excellent work of @BathTR , especially tobacco tactics, or @SimonChapman6 . It seems that only enemy of vaping is “tobacco control” ( and not the tobacco industry). What a surprise.
Global Forum on Nicotine@GFNicotine

BRAND NEW Gerry Stimson's pre-conference submission takes aim at exclusionary and targeted anti-vaping attacks from eminent researchers and tobacco control Watch the full video here: gfn.events/events-timelin…

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@AleksiHupli @PekkaPuska1 @SuomenASH @STM_Uutiset @EHYTry Prevention objectives aren't even contrary to disease/death reduction for PWS. It's much easier to portray pouches as remedy (medicalized messaging/labels) than engage with the enforcement overhead of illegalization. (Unless shirky principle guides policy recommendations.)
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Aleksi Hupli, PhD
Aleksi Hupli, PhD@AleksiHupli·
@PekkaPuska1 @SuomenASH @STM_Uutiset @EHYTry Onhan nuuskassa paljon muita aineita kuin nikotiini, jotka aiheuttavat haittoja, joten haittaprofiili kuitenkin eri. Ja niin nikotiinipusseihin siirtymistä tupakoitsevilla aikuisilla kuin nuorten käytön ehkäisyä voidaan varmasti edistää muutenkin kuin kielloin? #nikotinisoitu
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Aleksi Hupli, PhD
Aleksi Hupli, PhD@AleksiHupli·
Kannattaako jo tarjolla olevia nikotiinipusseja kieltää jos ne selvästi tarjoavat vähemmän haitallisen vaihtoehdon niin nuuskalle kuin tupakalle? Toki ikävalvontaa ja muuta sääntelyä tarvitaan. @PekkaPuska1 @SuomenASH @STM_Uutiset @EHYTry #nikotiini #haittojenvähentäminen
The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction@GlobalStateTHR

#Nicotine pouches are a relatively new product which can provide users of high-risk #tobacco with an alternative that poses fewer risks to their health. This Briefing Paper provides an introduction to the #tobaccoharmreduction potential of these pouches: gsthr.org/briefing-paper…

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@DonWeatherburn @2casey451 @EvertRauwendaal @AlexWodak The corollary to the current approach is that access obstruction isn't equivalent to prevalence reduction (for at-risk pop). And it's not super likely to. I mean the "new" prescription/criminalization scheme might do some. But could be offset by eradicating compliant vendors.
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Donald Weatherburn
Donald Weatherburn@DonWeatherburn·
@2casey451 @EvertRauwendaal @AlexWodak My number one concern is with specious arguments. On current evidence I don’t doubt vaping helps smokers quit. I’m far from convinced that free access to vapes is necessary or desirable to achieve that goal
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Alex Wodak AM
Alex Wodak AM@AlexWodak·
~190 countries have tried banning illicit drugs last 1/2 century. Only few succeeded & then only for few years. So track record for effectiveness is abysmal. Expensive & huge collateral damage. So Australia won’t succeed quasi ban of vapes if demand is strong.
Drug Science@Drug_Science

"Drug prohibition - it can't work, it doesn't work." Wise words from Dr Alex Wodak, who is our podcast guest in this latest episode. Listen in full here: drugscience.org.uk/drug-science-p… @alexwodak

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@JohnLaprise @EdwardHubert4 @asaca_au None of the documented hazards amount to a risk profile comparable to smoking. Less toxin exposure is pretty much always preferable to continued smoking (which is the inevitable outcome for half of all PWS). Utopic ideals and public health outcomes differ in this instance.
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ASACA
ASACA@asaca_au·
There are millions of vapers across the world willing to stand up and testify about the positive effects vaping has had on their lives It seems the other side has to resort to casting calls and bribery to counter us
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@sipherglobal Bland packaging, *believable* health warnings, and remedy portrayal are less likely to stoke reactance. And if preventing non-smoker uptake was the goal, then obstructing the prime use case will achieve the opposite. Even rudimentary regulation outperforms black markets there.
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@sipherglobal The article also shows a more probable prevention method has been overlooked. If only 40% recognize NVPs as smoking cessation (thus a remedy, like hemorrhoid creme) the risk xaggerations and push towards illicit sales will achieve little.
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SIPHER GLOBAL
SIPHER GLOBAL@sipherglobal·
India banned E-Cigs under PECA 2019 but these are available and being promoted despite the bans, a sizable minority of educated young adults who have never vaped are vulnerable to future e-cigarette use.GOI must enforce the ban and save kids from addiction sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
AHRER India@ahrerindia

Thank you sir. Our bias always will remain saving lives. No judgement or dogmatic beliefs along the way. It's not strange that people continue to conflate nicotine and tobacco despite evidence to the contrary. Now that's what one would call bias.

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@MedlawDan @DrSinhaEsq @SLULAW @psychheals @jennifer_plumb @AlexWodak @RenateKuenast @RedfearnMike