Grove Mitchell

@TaitKathi @eiluj9025648 Just so you know, everyone that switches from smoking to vaping has that problem at first. It’s a combination of your lungs being in bad shape from smoking, and the vapor having a bit more relative weight than the smoke. After switching, you will choke up detritus for weeks, 👇🏼

@JMacNYC @VaporAmerican @jgitchell @ConscienHealth I agree. These actors preclude any careful, considered, science-based appraisal from ever occurring.

Yes, that's a huge, perverse factor. So too Bloomberg's fanaticism. Or Durbin's craven idiocy. Or Crosby's duplicity. Or corporate regulatory capture. And all the ulterior incentives at play in what Buchanan/Tullock called "public choice theory." But once we give in to the temptation for the state to control markets, we open a pandora's box filled with all those schemes and grasping monsters.

🌭😶‍🌫️Shaping Vaping Food Policy Edition😶‍🌫️🌭 Thursday, 4/16 - Noon Eastern @JMacNYC and @jgitchell w Special Guest Ted Kyle @ConscienHealth - Food Policy in FDA’s thinking - What can THR learn from the Food Wars? - Joe’s forecasts from 10yrs ago and today youtube.com/watch?v=qJoYm1…

@JMacNYC @VaporAmerican @jgitchell @ConscienHealth This is a plausible explanation, given legitimate faith actors, but I wonder to what degree it just boiled down to a nationwide dependence on TMSA revenue, as most states had taken out loans on future, anticipated payments, evincing a complete disregard for the money’s intention.

Yes, that's a crucial point, Grove. It's not just the destruction and social division and political dysfunction that FDA et al caused -- it's also the missed opportunity of what could have been. And all because of their reflexive hostility to what Hayek called "spontaneous order," which they mistake for chaos. thedailyeconomy.org/article/on-hay…

@jkelovuori @HansPeterAlbre1 @JulianHillMP It saves so much typing. I just had to refer to this phenomenon, and all I had to type was: “See Australia.”

@HansPeterAlbre1 @JulianHillMP Australia is useful as it gives the rest of the world a shining example of what NOT to do with nicotine policy. Why it continues to bang its head against the wall taking the advice of a handful of prohibitionist tobacco control wowsers is baffling. Enjoy the chaos.

Going after these criminals, to save the lives of Australians.

@VaporAmerican @JMacNYC @jgitchell @ConscienHealth this period knows that it was an absolute non-smoker producing machine, and that the current state of tobacco smoking in this country would be ENTIRELY different had this phenomenon been left unbound.

@VaporAmerican @JMacNYC @jgitchell @ConscienHealth I would argue that this is an invalid comparison, as, importantly, we have already seen the result of the consumer choice end of the spectrum in this scenario in the pre-deeming reg environment. Anyone who experienced the apparatus that was the American vape store during 👇🏼

@SenTomCotton A result of the truly criminal refusal of the FDA to properly regulate nicotine products adults use. The black market will always step in to fill the void. See Australia. Spend more time educating yourself on these simple realities. Get a fucking grip. Have a nice day.

Dangerous, illegal Chinese vapes threaten the health of our children. My bill would increase the penalty on companies that enable Communist China to sell these dangerous devices in American markets. washingtonreporter.news/exclusive-sen-…

@Alan_Beard1 He has discovered some sort of biofilm on straw that he can attach to, and now he doesn’t even have to grasp the actual straw.

When will this 🤡🤡🤡 cease his lunatic rantings? A latest glimpse :- profglantz.com/2026/04/16/evi…

@LanceChurchill @ECIGattorney Biding his time. The worm is actually biding his time so his tenure isn’t tainted by nicotine. Unfuckingbelievable.

The FDA's Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine — And the Lives It’s Costing. At a moment of historic progress, the FDA has chosen paralysis. "The reason, according to multiple accounts, is that Marty Makary has effectively become the choke point. Sources describe a commissioner unwilling to move forward on approvals, even in the face of his own agency’s data showing declining youth use and strong evidence of reduced harm. At a moment when science, market behavior, and parts of the political system are aligned in favor of harm reduction, progress has been stalled. Not by lack of evidence, but by the refusal to act on it. In public health, that kind of delay is never neutral. It accumulates. And eventually, it is measured in lives." rogerbate.substack.com/p/the-fdas-qui…

Now served with a community note.

A short message from our former Chair, @grannylouisa about the proposal to ban vaping in public places. Check out our campaign website for information on how to contact your MP and submit your response to the government consultation. 👇 savevaping.org

@ChaunceyGardner @mcherup @Adamnogender You should get a couple extra.

@grove_mitchell @mcherup @Adamnogender We have f*ing rights? I haven't been exercising those as much as I should. :-)

New Study: Nicotine vapes are not as dependence-forming as cigarettes. Who knew? The authors are VERY good scientists, but continue to use the 1990s-era stigmatizing term "addictive." "Addiction among vapers appears to be lower than that observed among smokers." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

@ChaunceyGardner @mcherup @Adamnogender Yes. All of the options should be available for everyone. The easy way to fact check this is by reading the Bill of fucking Rights.

@grove_mitchell @mcherup @Adamnogender Sigh. I just checked. The total US NRT market is $1.43 billion per year. Much smaller than I thought. Pretty harmless, but few people use them to quit smoking, and they are not very effective. Total tempest in a teapot.

@lmstroud89 Smoked 30 years, and I didn’t have erectile dysfunction until I watched this video.

Advice, but really just anecdotes from their time at a sexual dysfunction clinic at a VA hospital... What causes more damage to a man's member? War or nicotine? Hell, you can get PTSD from all this misinformation telling you you're wrong for feeling better for using THR.

@truthinitiative My kids unanimously disagree.

Smoking can lead to less-than-desirable effects like erectile dysfunction (ED). Get the data at truthinitiative.org.

@bakerbee1 @castello2 The trick is to put the vape down long enough to brush your fucking teeth. 😆

So you better start smoking instead! I'm guessing you'd have to do way more than vaping to get your teeth into this state. #Sydney #Australia

@ChaunceyGardner @mcherup @Adamnogender Don’t forget “paid NRT pusher”.

@mcherup @Adamnogender @grove_mitchell Just to point out the obvious here. Michael has helped prevent the horrible deaths of over 1,000 people. So you can see how baffled OUR community is by people who stigmatize us. I have been accused of working for big tobacco and "grooming children." I could go on...

Why can’t the phoney anti-nicotine warrior-experts just listen to the wisdom of Karl Fagerström, fold their tents, walk off the battlefield, and find something useful to do with their lives. Leave the realists to fix this critical public health problem and get out of the way.

”Vi vet att snus också dödar” ??? Det är en gåta varför @Nyhetsmorgon fortsätter att ge plats åt sådan desinformation. Men! När aktivisterna demoniserar nikotin är det inte konstigt om rökning blir populärt bland ungdomar. De har ju fått höra att allt är lika skadligt…

@patrikstromer @plopnl @Nyhetsmorgon Absolutely spot on. 👌🏼