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Thread about community notes on tweets claiming vaping causes popcorn lung. First one is by Alberta Lung in their “40 Days of Lung Facts” -campaign. Well, this wasn't a fact at all. x.com/AlbertaLung/st…

Förbud mot nikotinpåsar är idiotiskt Frankrikes förbud mot nikotinpåsar gör att färre byter till ett mindre skadligt alternativ och att fler återgår till cigaretter. Sverige har med råge lägst antal rökare och minst skador från rökning. Vi har visat att skademinimeringen är rätt väg. Men Macron väljer ideologi framför evidens – med resultatet att fler kommer röka. Det kommer även göra att färre svenskar besöker Frankrike. Vem vill sitta i fängelse och betala en gigantisk bot för att de haft med sig en dosa nikotinpåsar?

"In sweden, we chose reality before ideology. We made alternatives (to cigarettes) avaliable. Now we have the lowest smoking rates in Europe, less cancer, less deaths. That´s how evidence based public health policy works." Is anyone listening? Learning @OliverVarhelyi @EmmanuelMacron

Zyns are SAFER than smoking. But now, some states tax them the SAME as cigarettes. Some as high as 95%! That's just dumb. “If you make the safer alternative more expensive,” @gbentley1 of @reason explains, “more cigarettes will be sold.”

Hier kan Nederland wat van leren “Smoke-free alternatives should be regulated to ensure product safety, restrict marketing to youth, minimize environmental harm and prevent uptake among non-smokers, without undermining their capacity to displace smoking.” clivebates.substack.com/p/rise-of-the-…

European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (@europethra) take on the Evaluation of the European tobacco control framework. ethra.co/news/184-eu-co…

😬 "Together, these findings suggest that many HCPs [U.S. healthcare providers] do not have accurate information about the relative risks of non-combustible TNPs [tobacco and nicotine-containing products]..." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"In conclusion, there is strong evidence to suggest that the use of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes may support cigarette smoking cessation among regular, established individuals who smoke cigarettes." link.springer.com/article/10.118… Full paper (PDF): link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

@wwwTabakNee @Wdekanter Zou Frankrijk zich niet eerst moeten proberen de rook prevalentie te verlagen, met bijna 30% staan ze bijna bovenaan in de eu. En dat de nieuwe alternatieve producten minder schadelijk zijn is gewoon een feit bevestigd door onafhankelijke instellingen gov.uk/government/pub…

Turkije bereidt strengere tabakswetten voor die uiteindelijk moeten leiden tot een algeheel verbod op rookwaren in 2040 / Duitse tabaksaccijns omhoog voor lagere benzineprijs. Dat en meer in Kort buitenlands nieuws. @Wdekanter tabaknee.nl/nieuws/ondertu…

@wwwTabakNee @Independer @Wdekanter @GvRookvrij @MinVWS Zou het kunnen dat wij en andere experts gelijk hadden en het door jullie voorgestelde beleid averechts zou werken? 🤔

🚨 Viktor Orbán is OUT! Following a massive election defeat, his fiercely anti-vaping (and anti-science) EU Health Commissioner is now stranded in Brussels, and caught in the middle of a wild spy ring scandal. Are the walls closing in on Olivér Várhelyi? Read the full story here 👇 #EUPolitics #Vaping clearingtheair.eu/en/post/orban-…

Het aantal jongeren van 16 tot 20 jaar dat vapet is in vijf jaar tijd bijna vertienvoudigd. Tegelijk is het aantal jonge rokers ook toegenomen, van 14,6 naar 20,1 procent. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van @Independer. @Wdekanter @GvRookvrij @MinVWS tabaknee.nl/nieuws/item/34…

Vapers and harm reduction advocates from Croatia, Slovenia, Czechia, Greece and beyond have had enough. They wrote to the Commission directly: a TPD revision built on the evaluation report will cost lives and grow black markets. worldvapersalliance.com/consumer-group…

@i_grzesiak @DrTedros Those who claim that e-cigs aren't less harmful are the ones doing the misleading: 1) ash.org.uk/media-centre/n… 2) ash.org.uk/uploads/Addres… 3) sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio… 4) ourworldindata.org/vaping-vs-smok… 5) clivebates.com/evidence/ 6) nhs.uk/better-health/… 7) kcl.ac.uk/news/vaping-su….

New data reveals Sweden is wiping out smoking even faster than previously thought. Latest figures from public health analysts CAN show daily smoking at just 3.7% - well below the 5% benchmark for smoke-free status. Sweden has halved smoking over the past decade by making safer alternatives like snus, nicotine pouches and vapes accessible and acceptable. ❗️The outcome: ✅Lowest smoking rate in Europe ✅Male lung cancer mortality 61% below EU average ✅Total cancer deaths 34% lower Yet the @EU_Commission latest review largely ignores this success and instead signals tighter restrictions on the very products driving the decline. As Dr @DelonHuman7 warns: “Nicotine does not cause cancer - smoke does. Ignoring this risks entrenching smoking, not ending it.” With TPD3 ahead, Europe should be treating Sweden as the blueprint for a smoke-free future. Instead, it seeks to move in the opposite direction - putting millions of lives unnecessarily at risk. More: smokefreesweden.org/2026/04/07/sen…

Clive Bates, the former CEO of Action on Smoking and Health, on the government’s proposed vaping ban.

They didn't want your input. They tried to exclude consumers entirely. But after fighting for a seat at the table, over 24,000 citizens responded and 77% made it clear that smokeless products help people quit smoking. 3/6 fixtheflaws.eu

With the release of the long awaited TPD Evaluation report, we call on MEPs to #fixtheflaws and to help explain why is was so bad, we have put together some handy infographics to break it all down.

New Substack: Updating about out attempt to correct a severely flawed article claiming a link between e-cigs and chronic kidney disease. open.substack.com/pub/ariellesel…

"The European Commission promised an evidence-based and impartial evaluation. Instead, the process failed to meet its standards, reaching conclusions based on opinions, assumptions, and clear gaps in the evidence" mohre.it/open-letter-fr…