Martin C

Along with @RogerBate3 at @LawEconCenter, I've co-authored a comprehensive white paper on why the @WHO's behaviour and failings with regard to its @FCTCofficial tobacco treaty show that it cannot be trusted with a proposed pandemic treaty. 🧵1/3 laweconcenter.org/resources/less…

@ChaunceyGardner @TobaccoFreeKids @BloombergDotOrg He once said he thinks he’s rocking up to the pearly gates when he’s gone. Not long now before, as a religious man, he realises his behaviour finds him down there in a hot place with other misguided dictators of the past.

All the good news coming from the NIH MTF survey and the CDC/FDA National Youth Tobacco Surey is an existential threat to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a $30 million per year non-profit largely funded by @BloombergDotOrg. At some point SOMEONE is going to tell @MikeBloomberg that teen use of ANY tobacco or nicotine product has dropped to a 50-year low and he's wasting his money on fixing a problem that no longer exists.

A novelty! @TobaccoFreeKids published an article which doesn't mention children. Maybe because the US NYTS data on which they are commenting showed daily youth smoking is 0.22 percent and youth vaping is in freefall. Their incessant fear-mongering busted. tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases…

Australians are now suffering from secondhand bullets thanks to anti-smoking fanatics.

“If European citizens start to believe that Brussels works for the unaccountable interest groups that crowd around the Commission and Parliament buildings, we will have a much bigger problem” <- It's a valid suspicion too, sadly. @EU_Commission, we see you.

Today's example of tobacco control industry lies. How long until the public realises their behaviour is #WorseThanBigTobacco?

Way to go, UK government! Your cretinous Tobacco and Vapes Bill is being misread by local bureaucrats already and it's not even law yet! You have lost all right to lecture smokers now you are actively destroying the alternatives. #Idiocracy #NotAboutHealth echo-news.co.uk/news/25941683.…

“If you go to real scientists, the evidence is very one-sided in favor of harm reduction.” It's a shame the tobacco control industry doesn't have any real scientists, only highly-funded single-issue blowhards who don't care about health. Via @MarcGunther marcgunther.substack.com/p/the-public-h…

@jkelovuori The Telegraph email puff-piece about the article.

@NannyFreeState Where's that "Mysterious and worrisome..." -quote from?

Congratulations on more stunning success from the tobacco control industry! #WorseThanBigTobacco "Mysterious and worrisome complications like “popcorn lung” are making clear that we just don’t have the long-term data to know what vapes do to our bodies." telegraph.co.uk/family/life/sm…

Well, considering surveys show that "medical experts" are ignorant about nicotine and that their "Merchants of Doubt" tactics towards safer products are arguably worse than when Big Tobacco did the same in the past, their praise proves the govt is wrong. euractiv.com/news/polish-cr…

"Adults are free to choose to consume all kinds of harmful substances, including some in a sweeter variety. There’s no reason vaping should be any different." A very wise editorial from the @wapo - sadly, the comments are chock full of ignorance. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

20 million people have died from smoking-related diseases in the EU since the 1992 EU snus prohibition. Imagine if the EU had encouraged switching to snus, incentivised pouch innovation, and gone all in to migrate nicotine use to low-risk products? EU still has 94m smokers, FFS.

Great quote from @reason’s @ReemAmirIbrahim at the @ssdpofficial Rethinking Nicotine panel on Failures of Prohibition: Countries as Case Studies: “If you want to save lives, give adults freedom.” 💯 #StartMakingSense

The @Protectaxpayers is celebrating its 15th anniversary. I'm very happy that our #GoodCOP conference in Panama made the highlights list.

filtermag.org/youth-smoking-… Why aren't @TobaccoFreeKids talking about this? Hmm...Maybe because it doesn't fuel yet another teen tobacco use panic? @FDATobacco

The nerve of tobacco control industry racketeers! "The federal government’s disastrous collaboration with Philip Morris on a doomed COVID-19 vaccine is one such example." The vaccine was ideal for low income countries. Disgusting @WHO activists banned it. windsorstar.com/opinion/column…

🇧🇪Belgium banned disposable vapes. Now it wants to ban flavours too. The Netherlands did the same. Within a year, adolescent vaping rose 25% and youth smoking 4%. Belgium can learn from that, or repeat it. worldvapersalliance.com/belgium-is-abo…

New federal survey data show youth vaping and smoking continue to decline. The long-claimed “gateway” from vaping to smoking still isn’t showing up in the real-world data. @NannyFreeState in @Filtermag_org: filtermag.org/youth-smoking-…

I've written at @Filtermag_org on the new US National Youth Tobacco Survey data which show smoking amongst youth has all but disappeared. The 'gateway' theory is nothing but fiction. Why does no-one want to talk about such great news? filtermag.org/youth-smoking-…

“If policymakers want to protect young people, they should regulate these products tightly and transparently, not push demand into grey or illicit markets.” - Sadly, too difficult a concept for tobacco control industry prohibitionists to understand. scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2603…