VapingIT, SPE, EEI
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VapingIT, SPE, EEI
@Vapingit
CDC Certified #Tobacco Control "Prevention" Expert. #Freedom #Choice #HarmReduction #Nicotine #YouDontKnowNicotine #ABillionLives #Caffeine #Grandpalife

Tobacco control is branding nicotine pouches as “the next Juul,” driving fear and misinformation. Laura Leigh Oyler from @HayppGroup sets the record straight. @cdoug @ChaunceyGardner @alli_vapes @VaporTechAssoc @INNCOorg @GFNicotine @GrimmGreen @LegionVaping

I hate it when @jkelovuori is grievously wrong. ...thinks hard on the last time that's ever happened.



Calling critics “useful idiots” does not resolve the contradiction in Simon Chapman’s argument. It merely advertises his reluctance to engage with it. The fall in daily smoking to 5.6% is excellent news. Nobody serious needs to deny that. But the same AIHW survey reports that 34% of people who smoke recently purchased or currently use illicit tobacco, up from 16.7% in 2022–23. The illicit share has more than doubled. Simon’s smug little victory lap relies on a category error. Smoking prevalence measures how many people smoke. Illicit-market prevalence measures where those remaining smokers obtain their tobacco. Smoking can fall while the legal market collapses and organised crime captures a growing share of the smokers who remain. Those outcomes are not contradictory. Nor does one household survey prove that Australia’s prohibitionary policies caused the decline. The survey records changes in behaviour; it does not isolate the effects of pharmacy-only vaping, excise, enforcement, the illicit market, changing social norms or the survey-provider transition. Yet Simon immediately treats a before-and-after association as a personal vindication. His own blog acknowledges that daily vaping barely changed, moving from 3.5% to 3.6%. The decline was concentrated in less frequent use, while daily vaping among 18–24-year-olds remained 8.3%. That is rather less dramatic than the triumphant rhetoric suggests. The honest conclusion is that smoking has fallen while a substantial number of young adults use a non-combustible nicotine product. That is not evidence that vaping has undermined tobacco control. It may be part of the reason combustible smoking is becoming less common. The real denial is pretending that record-low smoking somehow cancels out a black market supplying one-third of smokers, collapsing excise revenue, criminal violence and widespread illegal retailing. It doesn’t. It means Australia has achieved progress on one measure while losing control of another. As I explain in my Substack, public policy cannot be evaluated by selecting the one number that flatters its defenders and mocking anyone who examines the rest of the ledger. Simon may be unable to stop smiling, but personal abuse is not analysis, correlation is not attribution, and 34% illicit use is not a policy success. open.substack.com/pub/09algor/p/…





Some of you clearly don't know what freedom and liberty are. Liberties aren’t vibes, feelings, or participation trophies. They're negative rights 👉 limits on what government, and increasingly powerful institutions, can do to you without due process. #WeThePeople



I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.

This court decision could have big ramifications for the PMTA process. "In June, a Florida federal court stayed an FDA refuse to file (RTF) determination, finding the FDA likely violated the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) and Administrative Procedure Act (APA) when it promulgated its 2021 PMTA rule based on a small-business certification that the court described as “facially false.”" "The court also cited the plaintiffs’ expert testimony that a PMTA costs between $3 million and $13 million and that the expert was not aware of FDA ever accepting a PMTA that did not include a clinical study such as a randomized controlled trial. The court contrasted that testimony with the Deeming Rule’s statement that FDA did not expect PMTAs to include such trials." regulatoryoversight.com/2026/07/federa…

"The House has approved a defense bill that would authorize the Pentagon to test e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and HTPs alongside counseling, gum, and patches for active-duty personnel who smoke." vaping360.com/vape-news/hous…







