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@LandlMichael @plopnl And the other half of vapers goes to France to buy their vape gear. Fuck Belgium and Vive la France!🇫🇷

🇧🇪Belgium banned disposables & pouches. Now it is banning flavours. Half of vapers say they would return to cigarettes or buy from the black market. The government is handing both outcomes gift-wrapped to criminals. vapebusiness.biz/belgium-flavou…

@NotMsm67424 @LandlMichael She’s the former minister of health, the current one is this shameless liar, Frank Vandenbroucke

@LandlMichael This fat pig know anything about health?

🇧🇪 Belgium's Health Minister called vaping an invention of a criminal industry and banned flavours. 97% of vapers in the EU are former or current smokers. These are people who switched away from cigarettes. That is who this ban is aimed at. worldvapersalliance.com/belgium-bans-f…

🇨🇦Canada's public health groups take government money. They use it to lobby against vaping and nicotine pouches. Governments then cite these groups to justify restrictions. Smokers pay the price. @sabinebenoit_ worldvapersalliance.com/canadas-public…

@benjamincowen Critical thinking is of the essence. DYOR on everything in life. Keep an open mind and don’t marry any conclusion. Teach that to your children. It can be life saving.

Someone could go to school for 4 years and study aerospace engineering, then get a PhD with a dissertation related to orbital mechanics, and some instagram influencer who watched a youtube video will be like "actually that guy is wrong" on a topic related to space travel and people will believe them. I'm not sure how we got here, but I hope we go back to a society where credibility is earned with rigorous training in the associated field, not by a popularity contest.

Nearly half of all cigarettes smoked in #Belgium now evade tax, with €3 billion in lost revenue and rising flows from #Bulgaria, #Luxembourg and #Turkey driving a sharp expansion of the #IllicitTobacco market. Full story-> jackmcfakey.substack.com/p/uc-newswire-… Pic - Belgium Ministry Finance

@vapers_alliance Je n’y serais pas arrivé avec un arôme de tabac car ils ne sont pas bons. Ils ne ressemblent pas au goût d’une cigarette. Pour moi, les seuls arômes de tabac qui peuvent être bon, sont ceux combinés avec de la vanille, du caramel et/ou des noix.

@vapers_alliance J’ai arrêté de fumer grâce à un arôme à la mangue. Le lendemain de mon premier jour de vapotage j’ai repris une cigarette et je ne suis même pas arrivé à la fumer à moitié. Je l’ai jetée et je n’en ai plus jamais touché.

Les arômes comptent: les interdire, c’est restreindre la liberté de choix des adultes. Dites-nous en commentaire quel rôle ils ont joué pour vous!

@GladYuengling Um... No. This isn't the 1950s. We have predictive tools, 100s of peer-reviewed vapor toxicology studies, human biomarker studies and clinical trials. Back in the 1950s, the only way to prove cigarettes kill people was to count tombstones. Verdict: SAFER.

@FCTCofficial @CTFKGlobal Ban cigarettes! Why don’t you ban cigarettes?! Ban cigarettes now!

The plastic problem no one is talking about 🚨🚬🚬🚬🚬 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year. If we collected them all, they would fill 60,000 shipping containers — that’s 30 cargo ships full of toxic waste. Cigarette filters release harmful chemicals and microplastics into our environment 🌍 The tobacco industry is a major polluter. It’s time to hold them accountable. #FCTCProtectsOurPlanet Learn more fctc.who.int/newsroom/spotl…

@WR_LaoPDR @WHOWPRO @UNinLaoPDR @WHO Are you working on a ban of traditional cigarettes too? How many of those 40+ countries have already banned traditional cigarettes? Isn’t banning cigarettes a more effective way to protect young people from … cigarettes?

#LaoPDR is 1 of 40+ countries globally to ban e-cigarettes, but passing laws is only half the battle. Joint workshop with MOH strengthens enforcement & cross-sector collaboration to protect young people from nicotine addiction & safeguard public health. who.int/laos/news/deta…

An article published by the International Monetary Fund notes that taxes on risky products should reflect the harm they cause. Lower-risk nicotine alternatives should be taxed less than cigarettes. When safer options are cheaper, more smokers switch. Affordability matters for smoking cessation. imf.org/en/publication…

🇧🇪 België plant een smaakverbod. Fruit-, snoep- en mentholsmaken dreigen te verdwijnen. We moeten deze maatregel stoppen. Steun de campagne en schrijf naar je vertegenwoordigers. worldvapersalliance.com/nl_be/belgium-… 🇧🇪 La Belgique envisage d'interdire les arômes. Fruits, bonbons et menthol vont disparaître. Il faut empêcher cette mesure. Soutenez la campagne et contactez vos élus! worldvapersalliance.com/fr_be/belgium-… @Bart_DeWever @vincent_v_p @DavidClarinval @prevotmaxime @JanJambon

A deeply flawed paper which attempted to link vaping to an increased risk of cancer has been retracted. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

US teen nicotine use has dropped to a 50-year low. Daily use near nil. Teen vaping dropped 74% over the past 6 years to a 12-year low... Yet the machinery of Tobacco Control grinds on, blind to good news and relentless. Like a headless chicken. Or a zombie...

Prohibiting 'flavored' nicotine vapes has caused cigarette sales to increase in every locality, state and province where these coercive measures have been enacted. ...To increase especially among young adults. These are Big Tobacco protection bills. Mass murder bills.

We recently warned that Commissioner @OliverVarhelyi was spreading misinformation about smoke-free products. Now, 23 top European experts have sent an open letter to President @vonderleyen, backed by evidence from the @RCPhysicians, Germany's @bfren , and the @US_FDA, dismantling his claims point by point.

Zo gaat repatriëring uit Golfregio verlopen: Defensie brengt je voor 'redelijke' prijs naar veilig buurland en vandaar moet je zelf in België geraken vrtnws.be/p.qE0KKppmK?t=… #vrtnws

The WHO is a risk factor for cancer clivebates.substack.com/p/the-who-is-a… In a new Code Against Cancer, the World Health Organisation opposes the most effective and popular way to reduce the most important modifiable cancer risk, smoking. So, what does that make WHO?

The easiest play in tobacco control is also the dumbest. My new post on why the Irreconcilable Conflict Principle (a fancy version of the “scream test”) distorts science, policy and truth... with 8 examples. clivebates.substack.com/p/the-irreconc…

EU Health Commissioner @OliverVarhelyi is spreading absurd disinformation about tobacco and nicotine risks. 23 experts write to explain the damage to EU citizens and the credibility of EU policymaking. CC: @vonderleyen, @steph_sejourne, @EU_Health clivebates.com/papers-and-let…