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In enlightened UK, smoking cessation clinic staff hand out vapes to smokers every day. In medieval Hong Kong, they would be in jail. #NotAboutHealth dimsumdaily.hk/pair-jailed-fo…

Smokefree laws were designed for smoking—not vaping. We’ve launched a new site to help you respond to the UK consultation on banning vaping in public places. Have your say 👇 savevaping.org

It's been a day, but watching australian journalists hosting the ambassador of a state that is responsible for the murder of 278 journalists is quite fucked up, even for today.

Dr Di Evans: "There's a lot of evidence of cracked teeth, fractured teeth, believed to be due to cage biting. And this comes back to the poor housing conditions that these dogs have to endure for 2 to 3 years" #bangreyhoundracing parliament.wa.gov.au/watch/live/com…

I agree with @EricCrampton. But to correct misrepresentations: 1. Tobacco excise tax in NZ is not tagged for Health. It goes into the general tax bucket. Funding for health is a govt Budget decision. The article makes it sound like the illicit tobacco market is robbing Health funding. Indirectly, it could lead to a government decreasing health spending but that’s unlikely. 2. Tobacco Control as a sector worldwide, from the @WHO, its @FCTCofficial secretariat, and prohibitionist academics and health NGOs, have spread so much misinformation about vaping that many people who smoke have been turned away from switching to vastly safer alternative products - including vaping. Scientific evidence now strongly shows that vaping is more effective at helping people to stop smoking than Big Pharma’s nicotine replacement products such as the patch, gum and lozenges. The Ministry of Health NZ has not done enough to counter the disinformation. 3. The previous government banned oral nicotine pouches — arguably one of the lowest risk alternatives to cigarettes. These products were selling well in NZ. Prohibiting oral nicotine pouches closed off one of the off-ramps from smoking that very well could have supported NZ to hit 5% or below smoking prevalence by the 2025 target. First step is to repeal that ban. Second, send a clear message that the alternative products (vaping, oral nicotine pouches and heated tobacco products) are vastly safer than continuing to smoke. Otherwise, the Australian crime-driven blackmarket that has led to extortion and fire-bombings of almost 300 tobacconists and stores that sell cigarettes across Australia could cross the Tasman. New Zealand had a blackmarket previously — ramraids of shops, violent assaults on shop staff and a few deaths. The current government stopped that. They need to stay strong and hold their ground against crime. @CaseyCostelloMP @nzfirst @dbseymour @actparty

"The race didn't stop, the dog was lying in the middle of the track, and the rest of the pack ran around and ran straight over the top of it again. I watched the owner and trainer walk past the dog and shake their head and run their finger across their throat." A former greyhound racing insider has spoken out about how he reached "breaking point" with the industry and 'last year he returned to a track in Northam to show his wife from the UK what greyhound racing was all about, only to see a dog fall and be put down again.' "I said [to my wife] I bet it hasn't changed at all since I was a kid and it hadn't. It was a horrible old rundown building and track and in about the fourth or fifth race a dog fell on the first corner … and it broke both its front legs" "I was so disgusted to see that still happening after 30 years … and there were children there, just like I was." abc.net.au/news/2026-03-3… #bangreyhoundracing

National Press Club platforming Israeli ambassador - knowing IDF killed 250+ journalists - for lunch chat. In the same week Israel admits doctoring Lebanese journalist image after murder. Disgraceful & dystopian yet somehow still shamelessly in full view, to be broadcast on ABC

another greyhound dead in Victoria just now at Sandown - the second so far today. Sickening... hard to watch This is "Winckie Bale" in a horrible fall on the first turn. Clearly suffering, she is removed from the track while race is running (see last image). Was declared a no race. No report yet but her record has just changed to DECEASED. Likely euthanised. She was 4 years old and used for racing 82 times. Rest in Peace 🤍 Born: 7 April 2022 Killed: 30 March 2026 in Victoria #bangreyhoundracing Replay available and report will appear here: fasttrack.grv.org.au/RaceField/View…

Polling released today by RSPCA Australia underlines community sentiment towards commercial greyhound racing, as the industry faces calls to be phased out in Tasmania and Western Australia "these levels of concern remained consistently high across Australia’s metro, regional and rural areas" rspca.org.au/latest-news/me… #bangreyhoundracing

from RSPCA WA opening statement to the WA greyhound racing inquiry just now: "unnecessary suffering, pain and death to hundreds of dogs in Western Australia every year" Greyhound racing is "a system in which large numbers of dogs are bred, a significant proportion of whom will never race, and in which those dogs that do are exposed to immeasurable and ongoing risk of serious injury and death. These are not unintended or rare outcomes, they are predictable features of this racing model" #bangreyhoundracing parliament.wa.gov.au/watch/live/com…

Most punters wearing orange blinkers at the moment. #Auspol

@smokevapeutah Disposable #vapes were & ideally should be, starter devices. Restrictions have caused them to become the dominant vape due to black market logistics alone. Demand for disposables is artificial, created by the bans. Legalize Re-usables; & Disposables go back to being starter vapes

Greyhound Capo Dei Capi was killed about an hour ago at Shepparton in Victoria Syndicate-owned, only 20 months young. She won her race, did everything asked of her, moments later she was dead, euthanised after an "incident" in the catching pen. No detail about the "incident", could have been a fall, a collision, something else? Rest in Peace 🤍 Born: 13 July 2024 Killed: 30 March 2026 Shepparton Victoria #bangreyhoundracing Replay and report: fasttrack.grv.org.au/RaceField/View…

Everyone knows that smoking is terrible for your health and that quitting is very hard. For those smokers who can't stop, their future health is bleak. They have another option: to get nicotine from a source that won't make them sick. bit.ly/VAEPKeyConcept… #VAEP #vaping

Australia voted against Labor securing a proper fuel reserve

Almost 8xs more youth binge drink than vape regularly, yet youth vaping, which is at an all-time low, is an epidemic?!?!? #NonCombustibleNicotine #VapingSavesLives #AdultsLikeFlavors #VapingIsNotSmoking #TobaccoHarmReduction

🚨#283 🔥🚒🧯 Tobacco & Vapes War Firebombing Adjust your fire risk needles to extreme, because it’s now an imminent and catastrophic risk! Duke Street tobacco store at Slacks Creek on Brisbane’s Southside is the latest example of black market rife! mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2026/03/2…

@Algore09algor Some people in tobacco control agree with that statement.

Many health "experts" reject #HarmReduction for People Who Smoke. Their position is profoundly unethical: A violation of Beneficence (do good), Nonmaleficence (do no harm), Autonomy (informed consent; Truth-Telling) and Justice (treat all equally).

There are policies that make you pause and think… wait, is this serious? 🇵🇭 The Philippines is considering banning safer nicotine alternatives while millions still smoke. Not cigarettes. The alternatives. It’s hard to think of a clearer contradiction, since we already know that bans won’t eliminate demand. That’s not public health, that’s policy failure. 👉 Read the latest piece by Amanda to understand the issue: buff.ly/k43rK3f