VIDA Voices

Please take 10 minutes and watch this video from @VIDAvoices. It not only features the voices from Canada, the last 1/2 you'll see many familiar faces of people who have impacted and moved the teams from @ABillionLives and @KnowNicotine. youtube.com/watch?v=aDB1_2…

In a @RegWatchCanada interview about proposed Canadian tobacco tax changes, @umichsph experts Ken Warner & Cliff Douglas (@cdoug) discuss the potential public health and economic impacts, positive and negative, of raising taxes on different types of tobacco and nicotine products.

Important and clear statement from the Director of FDA Center for Tobacco Products, Dr Brian King:

"Every word has a consequence. Every silence too." - Jean Paul Sartre Victor Bauer

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Breaking through to people with facts about critical issues has never been harder. Some of it has to do with the way technology companies make profit. Confusion & anger is profitable.

This is the 4th of 4 eps in The SPOTLIGHT Series CANADA. All 4 are worth another watch. I view them often, when I need inspiration or a reminder why we don't give up. Grateful to @VIDAvoices @biebert 🙏🙏🙏 youtu.be/aDB1_2nvuVk

From @VIDAvoices "Its Madness"... youtube.com/watch?v=aDB1_2…

@grayjaynine @Rawgster @VaporAmerican @VIDAvoices @Biebert @GovCanHealth @jyduclos @Carolyn_Bennett @YouTube 💕

I'm grateful for @Biebert & @VIDAvoices giving us a chance to be heard. We don't hide in echo chambers, we want to talk to every one who's still smoking, show'em a choice, their human #right2switch to a safer alternative. That's why we don't stop fighting youtu.be/aDB1_2nvuVk

Has everyone seen the latest video from @VIDAvoices? It's awesome! Really awesome! Bragging rights! It's my second appearance in one of their videos. All the people in it is a wonderful trip down memory lane. THR heroes everyone! youtube.com/watch?v=aDB1_2…

#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #VapingSavesLives @RayYeates2 @grayjaynine @JohnOyston @Amelia_RH @FarsalinosK @Biebert @The_Winston_Man @bigknowledgeESO @MarewaGlover @beli_erf are a few of our neighbors in this touching video. #HearThem By @VIDAvoices youtube.com/watch?v=aDB1_2…

I can’t see the screen for my tears - I’m sad, angry, frustrated and yet still hopeful. WE. MUST. BE. HEARD. Forever grateful to @Biebert @VIDAvoices 🙏🏼 .@GovCanHealth @jyduclos @Carolyn_Bennett LISTEN Without Us \\ SPOTLIGHT Series youtu.be/aDB1_2nvuVk via @YouTube

“If smoking is so bad for you...& we’re told to quit all our lives...& then there’s this product that can help you...Why would they say no?" @grayjaynine illustrates the disconnect between being told to quit smoking while also being told not to use alternative nicotine products.

Dr. Ian Irvine, Ph.D. discusses the role economics plays in consumer choice & its effect on the marketplace with tobacco control products “If the price for a good is high, people are going to demand less of it. If the price for a good is low, they’re going to demand more of it.”

Abigail Friedman, PhD @YaleSPH, reviews data which compared states that banned minors from e-cigarette use vs states without bans: “What I found was that if you lived in a state where a ban was in place & you couldn’t buy e-cigarettes as a youth...you were more likely to smoke."

“And I didn’t have to feel shame anymore, but now I do.” Janine TImmons (@grayjaynine) reveals how she freed herself from the shame and stigma associated with smokers, and how that shame and stigma then shifted to people who use vape products.

Dr. Ian Irvine, Ph.D., explains how the policy measures being put into place to reduce vaping among youth have unintended consequences for the smoking population.

“Some of these deaths now are going to be people that took up smoking again because they were afraid of the thing that could have been the answer to them” Sociologist Amelia Howard summarizes the legacy that these vaping restriction policies will end up leaving behind.

“I think that Health Canada is being bullied and they are putting their political situation ahead of the health of Canadians. Those are lives. Those are families. Those are entire universes being wiped out with smoke.”