Tobacco Harm Reduction 101

🔥 RECENTLY RELEASED: 50 state breakdowns on smoking, vaping & policy 📍 Who’s quitting? 📈 Who’s still smoking? 💰 Where’s the money going? THR101’s 🔎 State Profiles have the answers → thr101.org/state-profiles #THR101 #VapingFacts

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How is that "everyone deserves a seat at the table" thing going? #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

🎥 Watch THR101’s full testimony below ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=fLvq9E… #RhodeIsland #HarmReduction #PublicHealth #Vaping #TobaccoPolicy

Rhode Island has a choice: ❌ Double down on outdated approaches ✅ Embrace harm reduction & risk-proportionate policy

🚨 BIG hearing in Rhode Island this week. On March 24, THR101 testified before the Senate Finance Committee on multiple bills that could reshape the state’s entire tobacco & nicotine landscape. 🧵⬇️

Low risk alternatives to cigarettes, such as vapes and oral nicotine pouches should be sold everywhere where combustible smoking products eg cigarettes are sold. It should be a condition of getting a license to sell cigarettes 🚬.

🚨 FDA released the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey. Here are the numbers, and it's good news if you don't want kids using nicotine, bad news if you want to try to use kids to justify prohibition: High school past-30-day use: • E-cigarettes: 7.1% • Nicotine pouches: 2.2% • Cigarettes: 1.8% • Any combustible: 3.5% Middle+high combined: • E-cigarettes: 5.2% • Cigarettes: 1.4% • Nicotine pouches: 1.6% Source: 2025 NYTS public use file, FDA. Weighted estimates, n=23,630.

✅ Policymakers should pursue risk-proportionate regulation that: 🚬 discourages combustible cigarettes 💨 preserves access to lower-risk alternatives ⚖️ avoids regressive taxation Public health progress depends on it. 📎 Read the full analyses: thr101.org

📊 The common theme across many proposals: • Higher taxes • More restrictions • Limited recognition of harm reduction Yet smoking rates continue to decline as non-combustible alternatives grow.

🧵 THREAD: What has @THR101 been working on lately? Over the past several weeks, we’ve been analyzing major tobacco and nicotine policy proposals across the U.S. — from tax hikes to regulatory overhauls. Here’s a snapshot of what’s happening across the states 👇 #THR #HarmReduction #PublicHealth