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"Promote e-cigarettes widely as a substitute for smoking." "At least 95% safer" - Royal College of Physicians https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction-0 "Advice remains: Vaping carries a fraction of the risk of smoking." - Public Health England https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/20/clearing-up-some-myths-around-e-cigarettes/ https://youtu.be/0CctBbh3WTw?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 166,007 Employees 24,457,512,300 Economic Impact 4,985,441,972 Taxes paid to the gov’t. Flavor ban = £0.00 ($0) almost 14k vapor companies...12k of which are retail vape shops...166k jobs...70k of which are direct-retail jobs...without flavors, there is no business model" 13+ Million American vaping voters, their friends, families, responsible & credible professionals from all fields globally, 14k US vapor companies...12k of which are retail vape shops...166k jobs...70k of which are direct-retail jobs like it it too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Banning flavors = banning vaping. Banning vaping is more than prohibition. These are life-saving harm reduction products. Harm reduction is a human right. Banning vaping is an abuse of human rights. #VapingBan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- @realDonaldTrump @SecAzar @djheakin "Available data suggest e-cigarettes (vaping) harms are unlikely to exceed 5% of those associated with smoked tobacco products, and may well be substantially lower than this figure." - Royal College of Physicians ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "While not without some risk, when compared to smoking e-cigarettes are far less harmful." Public Health England https://twitter.com/PHE_uk/status/1172165913539469319 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This view is supported by a number of key bodies, including Cancer Research UK, Action on Smoking and Health, the Royal College of Physicians, the British Medical Association and recently, a major US science body, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Advice on e-cigs remains unchanged - vaping isn’t completely risk free but is far less harmful than smoking tobacco. There is no situation where it would be better for your health to continue smoking rather than switching completely to vaping" - Public Health England 12/09/19 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I like the Vaping alternative to Cigarettes" - Donald J. Trump President of the United States of America ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #InsteadOfVaping with flavors: - One of your relatives died from a smoking-caused illness. - My dad smoked and painfully died from lung cancer. - Millions of people would still be smoking. - Chantix leads to suicide & psycosis. - All other methods fail in helping people not smoke. - Young people will smoke. - Big Tobacco makes more money - Legally, the black market will thrive - Tax Burdens on the public are greater #InsteadOfVaping use an e-cigarette #InsteadOfVaping with flavors, millions of people would still be smoking. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Health England is trying to achieve the eradication of smoking by 2030. Public Health England evidence update February 2019 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vaping-in-england-an-evidence-update-february-2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m an ecig user, vaping & researching for 7 years. A couple of weeks ago, the Tobacco Lead, at Public Health England, Martin Dockrell, said “with the data we have now, 5 years later, we would expect vaping to be substantially less than 5% of the risk of smoking” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *480,000 Americans die every year from SMOKING. *16 MILLION Americans have a disease from it. Vaping (e-cigarettes) the most effective smoking cessation tool: Vaping (e-cigarettes) are more effective than all other cessation tools. Vaping is proven the single most effective way to transition away from lethal combustible tobacco smoking: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14656 https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/e-cigs-twice-effective-nicotine-patches-gum-or-sprays-quitting/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoking kills 480,000 Americans a year. Vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking. Vaping is proven to be the most successful aid in helping smokers stay smoke-free. Flavours are a vital aspect of vaping. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "An e-cigarette (sometimes referred to as a vapouriser or vape) is a device that allows you to inhale nicotine in a vapour rather than smoke. E-cigarettes don't burn tobacco and don't produce tar or carbon monoxide, two of the most damaging elements in tobacco smoke." "E-cigarettes work by heating a solution (e-liquid) that typically contains nicotine, propylene glycol and/or vegetable glycerine, and flavourings. Using an e-cigarette is known as vaping." https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Vaping is not smoking. At least 95% & probably 99% safer than smoking. The most effective smoking cessation aid in existence. No risk to bystanders. Much less addictive. Has no suicide risk unlike Varenicline. #VapingSavesLives https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14656 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the interests of public health, it is important to *promote* the use of e-cigarettes/vaping, NRT and other non-tobacco nicotine products *as widely as possible* as a substitute for smoking" -Royal College of Physicians https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction-0 #VapingSavesLives ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RCP is a British professional body dedicated to improving practice of medicine, chiefly through accreditation of physicians (36,000 - 2019) by examination. Founded 1518, set first international standard in classification of diseases & first to speak out on the dangers of smoking. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RCP Members 36,000 is a British professional body dedicated to improving practice of medicine, chiefly through accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded 1518, set first international standard in classification of diseases & first to speak out on the dangers of smoking in 1962. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Examples of harm reduction that don't make things 100% safe incl. seat belts, helmets, needle exchanges, condoms, vaccines, chemotherapy, pasteurization, speed limits, parachutes, child-resistant caps..but safer "tobacco" products must be 100% safe? -CASAA https://youtu.be/q5ri5ROLMxo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than 4 million people in swing states regularly used e-cigs in 2016, according to FDA-funded survey data published last year in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Industry experts say that number has increased significantly in recent years. https://www.axios.com/gop-allies-warn-vaping-ban-will-sink-trump-in-2020-16f766a4-7bcc-435f-9638-a80223df55ed.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nicotine is comparable to caffeine, safely consumed in coffee, tea, & cola." - Prof B Rodu "E-cigarettes (vaping) probably about as safe as drinking coffee." - Prof R West "Nicotine is probably on par with drinking coffee in terms of health risks." - Prof P Hajek ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moral panics have both an ideological source (moral entrepreneurs who typically have sincere beliefs or ideological agenda) & a pragmatic one (sustained & strengthened by people who have pragmatic or self-interests because they stand to gain from them). https://www.aier.org/article/anatomy-moral-panic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politicians and regulators often react to moral panics by introducing legislation and regulations that are at best unnecessary and wasteful, at worst seriously harmful. Sometimes, when the subject of the panic is real but exaggerated you have the problem of a sledgehammer being used to crack a nut, an excessive and overbearing response. https://www.aier.org/article/anatomy-moral-panic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- They start with a particular episode or event, often real but sometimes completely imaginary (the supposed event is either invented or involves a misinterpretation of something quite different). https://www.aier.org/article/anatomy-moral-panic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This leads inevitably to demands for action, that “something must be done.” Institutions and powerful agencies now come under intense pressure to respond, often on the basis of “Something must be done, this is something, and therefore we should do it.” https://www.aier.org/article/anatomy-moral-panic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Switching to vaping saved by life.There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that I would still be heavily smoking if I had not switched. It is vitally import to have vape shops all over the country to help people choose the right equipment and offer continued advice & support. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.nationalsavevapingday.com https://youtu.be/JUQHfCcDpYs?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- While licensed NRT products are the recommended option, if a pregnant woman chooses to use an e-cigarette or has already stopped smoking with the use of an e-cigarette and feels that it helps her to stay smokefree, she should not be discouraged from doing so. https://www.ncsct.co.uk/usr/pub/NCSCT%20maternity%20care%20briefing.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watchdog dossier reveals 200 health problems that vaping does not make you immune from. "The dossier contains all the reports in the five-year period. The MHRA insisted that all health problems are reviewed. It emphasised they are not proof that the adverse effects were due to e-cigarettes." So basically one of the safest products in history? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Data from the NYTS do not support claims of a new epidemic of nicotine addiction stemming from use of e-cigarettes, nor concerns that declines in youth tobacco addiction stand to be reversed after years of progress," "Among current e-cigarette users who had never tried tobacco products, responses consistently pointed to minimal dependence." https://reason.com/2019/10/03/the-fda-plans-to-ban-flavored-e-cigarettes-based-on-a-nonexistent-epidemic-of-adolescent-nicotine-addiction/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- US officials/instiutions continue to dangerously disinform & diseducate the public, fanning flames of moral panic while New study debunks claims of youth vaping epidemic https://www.qeios.com/read/article/384 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- New study sends claims of American Youth Vaping Epidemic to the MYTH drawer. New study shatters American Youth Vaping Epidemic claims Study Proves American Youth Vaping Epidemic FAKE In the new study, University College London health psychologist Martin Jarvis and his co-authors argue that a closer look at the survey data suggests the FDA exaggerated the threat posed by adolescent e-cigarette use. https://www.qeios.com/read/article/384 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Conclusions: Data from the NYTS do not support claims of a new epidemic of nicotine addiction stemming from use of e-cigarettes, nor concerns that declines in youth tobacco addiction stand to be reversed after years of progress." https://www.qeios.com/read/article/384 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Landmark Study Fails to Find Any Evidence that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking http://ash.org.uk/media-and-news/press-releases-media-and-news/uks-largest-ever-analysis-of-data-shows-no-evidence-that-e-cigarettes-are-leading-young-people-into-smoking/ https://youtu.be/bfJ_dBJCM4A?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1% of 14 million kids. Their smoking rates continue to plummet (down 15% just last year) <1% of teen never-smokers vape >20 days/month. This is not up for debate. It's from National Youth Tobacco Survey 2018. 13.5% of them binge drink. Time to rethink your moral panics. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- epidemic noun a widespread occurrence of an *infectious disease* in a community at a particular time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seems you aren't taking this very seriously. Reminder: Smoking kills 480,000 Americans a year. Horrifying & painful deaths. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The so-called “gateway theory” been debunked several times, but it still remains one of the main arguments of vaping opponents all around the world. Landmark Study Fails to Find Any Evidence that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking http://ash.org.uk/media-and-news/press-releases-media-and-news/uks-largest-ever-analysis-of-data-shows-no-evidence-that-e-cigarettes-are-leading-young-people-into-smoking/ https://youtu.be/bfJ_dBJCM4A?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- So there is a social phenomenon in which people are gripped by fear that social order is threatened by some behavior/practice that is both harmful & immoral or motivated by ill will. This state of panic exists despite there not being any foundation for it. https://www.aier.org/article/anatomy-moral-panic ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nicotine is not the major cause of any disease associated with smoking; it’s comparable to caffeine." - Prof B Rodu "E-cigs probably about as safe as drinking coffee." - Prof R West "Nicotine is probably on par with drinking coffee in terms of health risks." - Prof P Hajek ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "E-Cigarettes are orders of magnitude safer than conventional cigarettes." - Prof P Hajek "In exposure terms, quitting equates to switching to vape." - Prof R Polosa "E-cigs are probably about as safe as drinking coffee." - Prof R West #VapingSavesLives https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/20/clearing-up-some-myths-around-e-cigarettes/ https://twitter.com/PHE_uk/status/1172165913539469319 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-and-commentary-on-recent-cases-of-harm-through-vaping-in-the-us/ https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-trumps-decision-to-ban-flavourings-in-e-cigarettes/ https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/20/clearing-up-some-myths-around-e-cigarettes/ https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping is *at least* 95% less harmful than tobacco smoking according to the Royal College of Physicians. We didn't listen in 1962 when they told us smoking causes cancer. We need to listen now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We know enough now from the biomarkers of harm, especially cancer that show us that there are so few of those chemicals and at such low levels, that vaping is biologically much less harmful in terms of exposures." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdQxACUGrjM&list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG&index=9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- No lung damage. The key finding from long-term study investigating health impacts of vaping. Conducted by Dr. Riccardo Polosa, world-renowned researcher & director of Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at University of Catania. https://youtu.be/2hcp6EEC4TM?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping reverses some of the harm caused by smoking in people suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The finding of a new study published in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. https://www.dovepress.com/health-effects-in-copd-smokers-who-switch-to-electronic-cigarettes-a-r-peer-reviewed-article-COPD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5162097/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping as a means of Tobacco Harm Reduction transcends politics. Vaping is personal freedom, liberty & individual rights. Small business/jobs (thousands of opportunities/reduced healthcare burden). A health equity issue (smoking harms devastate marginalised populations). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping as a means of Tobacco Harm Reduction transcends politics. Vaping is & a health equity issue (smoking harms devastate marginalied populations). A small business/jobs issue (vaping creates many thousands of oportunies). A personal fredom & individual rights issue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Candles, vacuum cleaners & meat grilling produce more harmful exposures than vaping: https://youtu.be/LYSANNWpq1s?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reason the rise of anti-vaping propaganda based on weak science, misinformation (like that from the ALA) & hysteria backfires is that they trigger curiosity, psychological reactance, rebellion & cognitive dissonance in young people. #MakingThingsWorse https://cei.org/blog/fda-created-youth-vaping-epidemic-now-it%E2%80%99s-doubling-down ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How is the rise of anti-vaping propaganda, misinformation & hysteria causing reactance in young people? "The reason this sort of communication backfires, according to psychologists, is because they trigger something called “psychological reactance.” https://cei.org/blog/fda-created-youth-vaping-epidemic-now-it%E2%80%99s-doubling-down "The reason this rise of anti-vaping propaganda based on weak science, misinformation & hysteria backfires is that they trigger curiosity, psychological reactance, rebellion & cognitive dissonance in young people. #MakingThingsWorse https://cei.org/blog/fda-created-youth-vaping-epidemic-now-it%E2%80%99s-doubling-down ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no situation where it's better for your health to continue smoking rather than switching completely to vaping" - Public Health England ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping proven single most effective way to transition away from lethal tobacco smoking: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14656 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #MsaBloodMoney In 1997 tobacco companies agreed to pay 46 states more than 200 billion dollars over 25 years. The idea was to cover the cost of treating smoke related diseases, although the money was often spent on other purposes. https://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2019/05/vaping-lost-tobacco-revenue.html https://youtu.be/dqyIsgc70-U?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alaska, California, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Washington, D.C, Puerto Rico and Guam - borrowed against funds, which are based on cigarette shipments. As long as your vaping friends don't live in any of those Blood Money states they *might* come out better off. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prohibition 2.0 & Michigans thriving new black market. Commiserations to families that have loved ones who return to smoking & those impacted by this move into financing crime. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” - Martin Luther King Jr. #VapersAreVoters ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lets use basic logic before being mislead *again* by the abhorrent anti-vaping rhetoric and misinterpritations from the CDC. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CDC is failing the public in its most important job – to protect the public from imminent health risks. https://cei.org/content/cdc-putting-lives-risk-warning-against-e-cigarettes "CDC & Health Groups' Bias Against E-Cigarettes is Putting Kids' Lives at Risk" - Prof M Siegel https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/08/in-my-view-cdc-and-health-groups-bias.html https://youtu.be/qZJn7b4tiQo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths linked to black market THC use not legal quality-controlled nicotine products (e-cigarettes). "An e-cigarette is a term of art" - Scott Gottlieb MD former FDA Commisioner ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CDC is incompetent/corrupt & have lost the trust of millions of vapers, their families & friends across the US. CDC has purposefully misinformed the public by being vague about what caused these issues to further their anti-e-cigarette agenda. Here are the original reports:https://i.imgur.com/11ZurFg.jpg ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thus making the spate of state bans (abuse of emergency powers) illegal for using "Dank Vapes" (black market THC oil) as a weapon against legal, quality-controlled & completely unrelated products (nicotine harm reduction). CDC incompetent & corrupt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outbreak Caused by BLACK MARKET, not Vaping https://cei.org/content/people/48468 Emotional & irrational hysteria in US goes far beyond confirmation bias http://www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/2019/274-us-lung Vitamin E acetate, an OIL thickening agent in ILLICIT BOOTLEG THC https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/09/ https://omny.fm/shows/ccc/jeff-stier-busting-the-latest-vaping-myths ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We really need to get a handle on illegal *Cannabis* products. People are dying. Please stick to legal Cannabis & Vaping products. Illegal black market synthetic Cannabis is dangerous!! And don’t EVER use illegal carts!! So many dangerous fakes out there. PG is perfectly safe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "As of yet, there hasn't been a single vape-related death or illness definitively proven to stem from the use of legal, FDA-approved vaping products." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-study-not-one-vaping-illness-linked-to-legal-e-cigarette-pods ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The U.S. reaction is “complete madness,” said Dr. John Britton, director of the U.K. Center for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at the University of Nottingham. “The reality with smoking is, if you tell people to stop vaping, they will go back to tobacco...” https://apnews.com/3ff4e419802144998ca31ae88029457b ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tobacco stocks like Altria (MO) and Philip Morris International (PM) erased losses to finish Wednesday higher after the Trump administration said it's preparing to ban many flavored e-cigarettes, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- While 16 percent of the patients in the CDC's study of 514 cases said they vaped only nicotine, those self-reports may not be reliable given the sensitivity of the subject. https://reason.com/2019/09/27/cdc-confirms-that-the-vast-majority-of-vaping-related-lung-disease-cases-involve-thc-products/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outbreak Caused by BLACK MARKET, not Vaping https://cei.org/content/people/48468 As of yet, there hasn't been a single vape-related death or illness definitively proven to stem from the use of legal, FDA-approved vaping products. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-study-not-one-vaping-illness-linked-to-legal-e-cigarette-pods https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/?s=vaping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping has killed 0 people. Illegal THC oil has killed 19. Outbreak Caused by BLACK MARKET, not Vaping https://cei.org/content/people/48468 There hasn't been a single vape-related death or illness definitively proven to stem from the use of legal vaping products. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-study-not-one-vaping-illness-linked-to-legal-e-cigarette-pods ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the aid of sloppy news reporting and biased announcements from federal officials, anti-tobacco advocates have successfully deceived the public into thinking that "vaping" is to blame. https://cei.org/content/con-e-cigarette-flavor-ban-ineffective-and-dangerous ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- More sensationalist news? BBC & the media, in general, has been a disgrace over this issue & are continuously ignoring official guidance. Vast evidence that these deaths are from use of black-market substances that have no relation to nicotine products. https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/?s=vaping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CDC criminally negligent & utterly incompetent. Illnesses & deaths are fans/followers of CNN, who continually follow faulty advice only from CDC, remaining vague & failing to specifically warn public against use of black-market THC oil. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If at this stage you aren't aware of the black market THC connections or you are incapable of differentiating the difference between that & life-saving legal & quality controlled then your credibility has be called into question. https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-and-commentary-on-recent-cases-of-harm-through-vaping-in-the-us/ https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-trumps-decision-to-ban-flavourings-in-e-cigarettes/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York Times & other media have been spreading baseless fact-free anti-vaping propaganda for years. They have misinformed the public & created a moral panic over these life-saving products that have created 166,000 American jobs. Vaping Votors need your help Mr President. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoking rates are so low because youth are trying vaping instead of smoking. CDC uses past 30 day use (as in 1 puff = vaper). Vaping is vastly less addictive and less harmful than smoking. Response = ban vaping (flavours) = more youth smoking. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- After Trump flavor ban talk: British American Tobacco BATS, -2.22% BTI, -2.04% shares rose 5.9% on Wednesday, marking the U.K.-listed stock’s biggest one-day percentage increase since the financial crisis. Volume of 4.1 million shares in midday trade was about triple the full-day average. Altria Group Inc. MO, +0.27% shares rose 6.7%, also marking their biggest one-day percentage increase since 2008; volume of 10.6 million shares was nearly double the full-day average. Philip Morris International Inc. PM, -0.62% shares rose 3.4% on Wednesday, in their fourth-largest one-day percentage increase in five years. After backtrack Trump backtrack Tweet: Shares of the companies subsequently declined in Thursday trade, with British American Tobacco stock down 2.3%, Altria shares down 2.5% and Philip Morris shares down 0.5%. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "First, vaping is prohibited for children. In fact, the same rules that apply to cigarettes, marijuana and alcohol apply to vaping. Second, the consumption of alcohol is much higher for the under-18 population than is vaping." https://www.aier.org/article/fda-created-illegal-and-dangerous-vapes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How about alcohol? According to the CDC, “Excessive alcohol use is responsible for 88,000 deaths in the United States each year. It also accounts for 1 of 10 deaths among working-age adults and shortens the lives of those who die by an average of 30 years.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CDC reports that roughly half a million Americans die annually from smoking. And they have been dying for years. Also, “More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to the CDC, “people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States, 30% of high school students report drinking some alcohol in the last month, and 14 percent binge drank.” Quite dramatically, “excessive drinking is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage youth each year.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How about cigarettes? Teen smoking is down, which is awesome. As Kevin Williamson explained over at National Review, “ teen smoking rates are at historic lows — which is excellent news, and news that ought to make us at least a little suspicious of claims that vaping is going to lead to a new epidemic of cigarette smoking among young people.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data also show that the reduction of teen smoking has also accelerated significantly since the creation of vaping. And considering that vaping has been found to be much less harmful than smoking I would say this is a good thing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- And Williamson adds this: “Of course people vape recreationally, and minors who are not legally able to buy vaping products get their hands on them and use them, albeit at relatively low frequency: Teenage marijuana use, for example, is about 35 percent more frequent than teenage vaping. And marijuana is of course much more heavily regulated than vaping.” https://www.aier.org/article/fda-created-illegal-and-dangerous-vapes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australain policy is a poor benchmark of tobacco control. "E-Cigarettes are orders of magnitude safer than conventional cigarettes." - Prof P Hajek "Promote vaping widely as substitute for smoking." - Royal College of Physicians "In exposure terms, quitting equates to switching to the ecig." - Prof R Polosa https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/27/e-cigarette-evidence-update-patterns-and-use-in-adults-and-young-people/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australain policy is a poor benchmark of tobacco control. Vaping prohibition is killing Australians. "Australia is missing an opportunity, and there is a human cost for that in terms of cancer, heart and lung disease and premature death." https://www.clivebates.com/is-australia-falling-behind-on-tobacco-policy/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian policy is a poor benchmark of tobacco control. The US will see the same results. Vaping prohibition kills. "Aus is missing an opportunity, and there is a human cost for that in terms of cancer, heart and lung disease and premature death." https://www.clivebates.com/is-australia-falling-behind-on-tobacco-policy/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- India passes “half-baked” measures to ban e-cigarettes but allows cigarettes to remain on sale in a country where 1 million die from smoking-related disease annually. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adult don't like flavors? You guys have any more of that tobacco pie? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not smoking and I'm not lying under oath" - Vicki Porter (Vaper & Radio Show host speaking at House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing 24/09/19 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join http://www.casaa.org/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involv... Call the White house at (202) 456-1414 and make them hear our voices. Tell them you vape flavored eliquids, We Vape And We Vote and a Thank you. Contact your Governor https://www.usa.gov/state-governor https://vaportechnology.org/ D.C. Rally info http://unitedvapersalliance.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/13985... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Dark money” lol. These ivory tower intellects can’t see past the window glare of their Manhattan offices. I visited some of these “dark money” operatives in New Jersey yesterday. They didn’t seem very well funded. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have reached the point where I physcially can't listen to the ANTZ anymore. Same regurgitation of the same lies. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In these hearings, If the ANTZ are going to be resorting to the level of bringing parents (who they have lied to) of sick or deceased youth as a propaganda tool might be worth drawing attention to the crocodile tears before they use them? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.clivebates.com/?s=Glantz Challenging False & Dangerous Claims from Glantz: https://www.clivebates.com/vaping-risk-compared-to-smoking-challenging-false-dangerous-claim-by-stanton-glantz/ UCSF is peddling false information: https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/12/28/stanton-glantz-says-vapers-should-smoke-cigarettes-instead-13690 Glantz Sexual harassment: https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/16/stanton-glantz-ucsf-sexual-harrassment/ Glantz Heart Attack pseudoscience: https://reason.com/2019/07/19/anti-vaping-researchers-claim-e-cigarettes-cause-heart-attacks-before-smokers-try-them/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flat-earth grade baseless conspiracy theory. There is no Big Vape. This is what the vaping industry is: https://youtu.be/QgfvCcpMKC0?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " They count the heart attacks and strokes irrespective of when they happened. These temporal issues mean there is a huge volume of noise and bias in the data from heart attacks or strokes that occurred before the person started vaping." https://www.clivebates.com/vaping-risk-compared-to-smoking-challenging-false-dangerous-claim-by-stanton-glantz/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The flawed & disturbing ethics of trading-off youth vaping & adult smoking "dying in agony from cancer or the debilitating misery of COPD & adolescent vaping, which is, objectively, a low-risk behaviour with minimal health consequences." https://www.clivebates.com/the-great-american-youth-vaping-epidemic-really/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sadly, the scientific integrity of the American Lung Association has apparently deteriorated to the point that they have become just another denialist organization - like the global warming deniers or anti-vaxxers." - Prof M Siegel https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/07/american-lung-association-inadvertently.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The flawed & disturbing ethics of trading-off youth vaping & adult smoking "dying in agony from cancer or the debilitating misery of COPD & adolescent vaping, which is, objectively, a low-risk behaviour with minimal health consequences." https://www.clivebates.com/the-great-american-youth-vaping-epidemic-really/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a credible scientific consensus that vaping is vastly safer than smoking & that all current smokers should switch to a product that will save their lives. Then there is anti-vaping propaganda based on pseudoscience, quackery & abuse of the precautionary principle. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Vaping experimentation *does not* turn into regular vape use" "Levels of daily e-cigarette use in young people, who have never smoked, remain *very low* between 0.1% to 0.6%" https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-2018-american-teen-vaping-epidemic.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28850065 https://youtu.be/19VSDFq6Oeo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Vaping prevents youth #smoking Not an epidemic. *daily* use is between 0.1% & 0.6%. Not a disease or cause of any disease. Is a behaviour with minor health consequences, if any. https://www.clivebates.com/the-great-american-youth-vaping-epidemic-really/ https://www.aier.org/article/anatomy-moral-panic/ https://cei.org/content/fear-profiteers/ https://youtu.be/19VSDFq6Oeo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no epidemic. Youth weaponized for Pharma, Tobacco Control, Political & financial agendas. Evidence is vast, you'd know if you looked instead of mindlessly doing their bidding & spreading their propaganda. “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” - Adolf Hitler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not an epidemic. *daily* use is between 0.1% & 0.6%. “epidemic” is a manufactured marketing campaign that FDA knew would convince people incorrectly that vaping was as dangerous or more dangerous than smoking, dissuading smokers from switching to a less harmful alternative: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not an epidemic. *daily* use is between 0.1% & 0.6%. Proof that the vaping “epidemic” is a manufactured marketing campaign that FDA knew would convince people incorrectly that vaping was as dangerous or more dangerous than smoking, dissuading smokers from switching to a less harmful alternative #VapingSavesLives ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping is not an epidemic. Vaping has never been an epidemic. You have been fooled. "Levels of daily e-cigarette use in young people, who have never smoked, remain *very low* between 0.1% to 0.6%" https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-2018-american-teen-vaping-epidemic.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28850065 https://youtu.be/19VSDFq6Oeo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "FDA & other health groups’ incessant & unscientific war against e-cigarettes." "If you wanted to design a campaign to provoke teen defiance, you couldn’t do much better than what FDA, CDC, & other health groups have been doing over the last two years." https://cei.org/blog/fda-created-youth-vaping-epidemic-now-it%E2%80%99s-doubling-down ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No lung damage. The key finding from long-term study investigating health impacts of vaping. Conducted by Dr. Riccardo Polosa, world-renowned researcher & director of Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at University of Catania. https://youtu.be/2hcp6EEC4TM?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- No lung damage. Long-term study investigating health impacts of vaping. Dr. Riccardo Polosa, world-renowned researcher & director of Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology in University of Catania. https://youtu.be/2hcp6EEC4TM?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #VapingSavesLives "A plethora of poor-quality studies are emerging these days. An army of researchers who need to be educated properly, reiterating the same mistakes over & over again." - Prof R Polosa Resurrecting rigour in THR research: https://youtu.be/GHoGoiDi_NA?t=1h51m47s ---------------------------------------------------------- Smoking rates are at an all-time low ??. While #Vaping rates are going up ??. If vaping is a gateway to smoking then why are smoking rates going down? Apply some basic logic before looking at studies that attempt to defy it. ---------------------------------------------------------- "Promote vaping widely as substitute for smoking." "At least 95% safer" - Royal College of Physicians "In exposure terms, quitting equates to switching to vape." - Prof R Polosa "E-cigs are probably about as safe as drinking coffee." - Prof R West https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/20/clearing-up-some-myths-around-e-cigarettes/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Not cause for emergency response, amongst frequent users, a lot of them are smokers & for them, it's beneficial. When you get into the numbers, you see a completely different view of the problem, its a much smaller problem & much less of cause for panic." https://youtu.be/ZUDZ_TsiFLQ?t=5m23s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This is hysterical propaganda that is completely unsupported by any actual scientific evidence" "It is critical to recognize there is no existing evidence that nicotine exposure itself is capable of impairing brain development in humans." - Prof M Siegel https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/05/e-cigarette-opponent-claims-that-e.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trash science bought by Big Pharma JHU COI's, ethics violations & corruption. 2014 - $400,000 2014 - $50,000 2016 - $74,000 from RWJF (Johnson & Johnson) For the specific task of discrediting e-cigs https://www.rwjf.org/en/how-we-work/grants-explorer.html#k=JOHN&location=MD&start=2014 https://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/institutional-portfolio/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-49083 https://youtu.be/TrCizlAOBAo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoking-related harms devastate marginalized populations, low-income communities, minorities, people with mental health diagnosis, incarcerated people, LGTBQ people & people who are homeless. Tobacco Harm Reduction is about health equity and you want to ban it? #VapingSavesLives ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The “no long-term evidence” gambit. "that they are much less risky than cigarettes is beyond any reasonable doubt. We know much more today about toxicology, physiology, pathways and mechanisms than when cigarettes emerged." https://www.clivebates.com/ten-perverse-intellectual-contortions-a-guide-to-the-sophistry-of-anti-vaping-activists/#s4.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.clivebates.com/?s=Glantz "Stanton Glantz isn't the only problematic individual at UCSF. Indeed, the university has become an academic home for conspiracy theorists, including anti-vaxxers." https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/12/28/stanton-glantz-says-vapers-should-smoke-cigarettes-instead-13690 https://medium.com/@michelleminton/where-anti-vaxxers-and-anti-vapers-meet-affa5c3f5529 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If a pregnant woman who smokes chooses to use an e-cigarette (vaping) & it helps her quit smoking & stay smoke-free, she should be supported to do so." “There is no reason to believe that use of an e-cigarette has any adverse effect on breastfeeding." - Royal College of Midwives https://www.rcm.org.uk/media/3394/support-to-quit-smoking-in-pregnancy.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If using an e-cig helps you to stop smoking, it is much safer for you & your baby than continuing to smoke." - NHS UK https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/smoking-pregnant/ "In humans, we do not have evidence that nicotine use alone, separate from tobacco is harmful in pregnancy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sji9cuCns2c ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prohibition 2.0 & Aspens thriving new black market. Commiserations to families that have loved ones who return to smoking & those impacted by this move into financing crime. “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” - Martin Luther King Jr. #VapersAreVoters ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is 0 credible evidence that nicotine harms the developing *human* brain. Nicotine gives improvements in primary and secondary cognitive measures of attention, memory, memory consolidation, learning, focus, alertness, concentration, and mental processing. #VapingSavesLives ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It’s as if all the scientific evidence showing e-cigarettes have almost none of the risks of smoking falls on deaf ears." https://medium.com/@michelleminton/where-anti-vaxxers-and-anti-vapers-meet-affa5c3f5529 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to only four companies. #FakeNews #VapingSavesLives ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "E-cigs are saving lives. We have seen people who have never imagined quitting smoking & they did within one day/a few days with the use of #vaping. So what are you going to tell them? that it's not effective? They are going to laugh." - Dr. K Farsalinos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcIPNns3m_Q&feature=youtu.be&t=6m50s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Overall, this a quackery level pseudoscience website." "The mission of the website appears to be the sale of questionable nutrition and natural health related products, with articles promoting a wide variety of health related pseudoscience." https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/dr-axe/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In review, RealFarmacy is a health news website that promotes both conspiracies and mostly pseudoscience." "In general, this site disrespects science to such a degree it is less than non-credible." https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/realfarmacy/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FDA is targeting 0.1% of the industry that has bad actors that aren't obeying the regulations. Another vastly overblown moral panic inducing overreaction. How has this become widespread news? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- New study: #Vaping protects the growth of protective microorganisms in the mouth from harmful bacteria, thus promoting natural, sustainable oral health. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/10/1669/htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE POINT Vaping is at least 95% less harmful than tobacco smoking according to the Royal College of Physicians. We didn't listen in 1962 when they told us smoking causes cancer. We need to listen now. #VapingSavesLives https://youtu.be/q5ri5ROLMxo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35 cases in 10 yrs that aren't linked to vape. Over 13 million vapers in the US. 1/2 smokers die from smoking (vaping vastly safer), CDC says 10% of Americans have a seizure sometime in life so FDA shows a lower chance of seizures in vapers. Drinking causes seizures (thousands). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article and study completely invalidated by not comparing findings to that of smoking. All study on vaping must be compared to smoking because that is what it is designed to replace. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian policy is a poor benchmark of tobacco control. Vaping prohibition is killing Australians. "Australia is missing an opportunity, and there is a human cost for that in terms of cancer, heart and lung disease and premature death." https://www.clivebates.com/is-australia-falling-behind-on-tobacco-policy/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "result of an orchestrated effort meant to create confusion & public panic over ecigs / vaping" "the individuals and groups behind this fear campaign are those most likely to profit from it: anti-smoking and health advocacy groups." https://cei.org/content/fear-profiteers https://youtu.be/sG-vW1ku0_U?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- New study: #Vaping protects the growth of protective microorganisms in the mouth from harmful bacteria, thus promoting natural, sustainable oral health. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/10/1669/htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This campaign to restrict or ban e-cigarettes does a huge disservice to public health, decreasing the likelihood that smokers will utilize these devices as a means of quitting their deadly habit. https://twitter.com/GoBeepUK/status/1100381049719345152 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Triggered blood vessel dysfunction" = Malpractice & misinformation. Do better, remember your ethics. Don't tweet sensationalist & unscientific news stories if you are a medical professional. https://youtu.be/clGmu7jeSuY?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do the properties of cinnamon change when it is present in e-cigarette liquids? The pro-inflammatory/oxidative and anti-inflammatory/anti-oxidant properties of cinnamaldehyde ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "(which were not vaped, they were used in liquid form)." "5 smokers and 4 e-cigarette users (2 of whom were dual users)" "limited value since it is irrelevant to flavors effects and included very few participants." "how hard it is to find exclusive e-cigarette users in the US so that you can avoid combining exclusive and dual users into one group." http://www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/2019/270-cin-heart?fbclid=IwAR1bS8Ao6ZPANZkfvFwjaaTTpgXZL-If4K5SYMgeoZ9w6nsv_RhvAHXoZWM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Trying to say that vaping is as dangerous as smoking, not only is it deeply unethical and scientifically ridiculous, it's deeply harmful. The people saying it will never be trusted again in future." - Clive Bates (tobacco control policy expert) https://youtu.be/ZUDZ_TsiFLQ?t=8m17s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the medical opinion of Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar, Head of Cardiovascular Surgery at Trillium Health Center and one of the leading practitioners of ‘beating heart’ surgery in North America. https://youtu.be/F6fIrNGhucY?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping is at least 95% & probably 99% safer than smoking. 95% more effective than cold turkey. Has no suicide risk unlike Varenicline. The most effective smoking cessation aid in existence: #VapingSavesLives https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14656 https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N22Y3T3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surgeon General Adams was invested in Big Tobacco before becoming SG, scares the public & creates moral panic over a 95%+ safer alternative to smoking. He tweets sensational unscientific news stories & misleads people with botched figures from the CDC. https://altgov2.org/surgeon-general-tobacco-stock/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- J Adams who was invested in Big Tobacco before he became SG, who creates moral panic over a 95%+ safer alternative to smoking. Adams is known for tweeting fact-free news stories & disinforming the public with misleading interpretations of data from CDC. https://altgov2.org/surgeon-general-tobacco-stock/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The “no long-term evidence” gambit "that they are much less risky than cigarettes is beyond any reasonable doubt. We know much more today about toxicology, physiology, pathways and mechanisms than when cigarettes emerged." https://www.clivebates.com/ten-perverse-intellectual-contortions-a-guide-to-the-sophistry-of-anti-vaping-activists/#s4.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- “we just don’t know whether vaping will make smoking obsolete & save several hundred million lives, & nor do we know whether our prohibitionist regulatory ideas will stifle the displacement of smoking by vaping & so cause millions more to smoke and die“. https://www.clivebates.com/ten-perverse-intellectual-contortions-a-guide-to-the-sophistry-of-anti-vaping-activists/#s4.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conclusions are simply wrong and constitute epidemiological malpractice and misinformation. http://www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/2019/268-ecig-heart https://youtu.be/F6fIrNGhucY?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Study Shows No Lung Damage from Vaping https://youtu.be/2hcp6EEC4TM?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG Heart Surgeon Says VAPING Is SAFER https://youtu.be/F6fIrNGhucY?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Smoking is leading cause of preventable death in society. Switching to #Vaping more effective than any other method for stopping. Harmless #ecigs won't kill anyone when used as intended. Anti-vapers have no substance, validity or credibility. #VapingSavesLives ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tax increases that raise the price of e-cigarettes for consumers will discourage smokers from switching, an illogical act for anyone concerned about public health." https://www.atr.org/electronic-cigarettes-should-not-be-taxed-tobacco-products ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It’s as if all the scientific evidence showing e-cigarettes have almost none of the risks of smoking falls on deaf ears. Almost no teens habitually use e-cigarettes, and most of those who do are (or were) smokers." https://medium.com/@michelleminton/where-anti-vaxxers-and-anti-vapers-meet-affa5c3f5529 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Denying 18-21-year-olds (young adults) legal access to vaping & their human right to harm reduction is abhorrent. What next ban condoms? "It is absolutely irresponsible and dangerous behaviour to ban e-cigarettes." - Dr K Farsalinos #VapingSavesLives http://www.casaa.org/news/casaa-tobacco-21-policy-statement-including-low-risk-alternatives-in-t21-laws-is-unwise-misleading/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "result of an orchestrated effort meant to create confusion & public panic over ecigs / vaping" "the individuals and groups behind this fear campaign are those most likely to profit from it: anti-smoking and health advocacy groups." https://cei.org/content/fear-profiteers https://youtu.be/sG-vW1ku0_U?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Across the nation, lawmakers seem stuck in a tragic game of whack-a-mole. The more they try to reduce youth vaping, the more they increase youth combustible cigarette smoking." "Such is the law of unintended consequences." https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/how-government-e-cigarette-restrictions-are-increasing-youth-tobacco-use-2/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CDC has been reporting misleading anti-vaping interpretations of the National Youth Tobacco Survey. The CDC has been investigated for conflicts of interest & ethics violations in the past related to donations that they received from Pharma Companies. https://youtu.be/TrCizlAOBAo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Promote vaping widely as substitute for smoking." - Royal College of Physicians "In exposure terms, quitting equates to switching to the ecig." - Prof R Polosa "E-Cigarettes are orders of magnitude safer than conventional cigarettes." - Prof P Hajek https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/27/e-cigarette-evidence-update-patterns-and-use-in-adults-and-young-people/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Fruit/dessert/pastry/bakery/candy/chocolate/sweet flavors most prevalent choices of adult, US e-cigarette users who participated. Considered particularly important in their effort to quit smoking & to prevent relapse to smoking." http://www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/2018-2/266-us-flav https://youtu.be/YlH0TPqLyC8?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analysis of use and misuse of the precautionary principle. "There is now a risk that these abuses will deprive the principle of its meaning and value. When pushed to its limits, the principle can even be dangerous when applied to the healthcare field." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984492 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "that they are much less risky than cigarettes is beyond any reasonable doubt. We know much more today about toxicology, physiology, pathways and mechanisms than when cigarettes emerged." https://www.clivebates.com/ten-perverse-intellectual-contortions-a-guide-to-the-sophistry-of-anti-vaping-activists/#s4.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is absolutely no credible evidence of a gateway from vaping to smoking. Landmark Study Fails to Find Any Evidence that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking among Youth http://ash.org.uk/media-and-news/press-releases-media-and-news/uks-largest-ever-analysis-of-data-shows-no-evidence-that-e-cigarettes-are-leading-young-people-into-smoking/ https://youtu.be/bfJ_dBJCM4A?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big Tobacco didn't invent nicotine vaporisers (e-cigarettes) and they don't control the vaping market. The industry is getting blown away by this disruptive technology. Big Tobacco is in Big Trouble. https://athra.org.au/is-vaping-a-conspiracy-created-by-big-tobacco/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is important to promote the use of e-cigarettes as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking" - Royal College of Physicians ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Billion Tobacco deaths this century if trends continue. THR Advocates who support free and unhindered access to the full range of e-cigarette products will help to enable the single most important advance in public health since the discovery of antibiotics. #VapingSavesLives https://youtu.be/nCozEhqdKQw?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Among never-smoking youth, *daily* use is between 0.1% & 0.6%. "If more vaping means less smoking among teenagers, that represents a significant public health improvement, given the huge difference in risk between the two forms of nicotine consumption." https://reason.com/2019/05/07/the-upside-of-teen-vaping/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28850065 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bogusky nor the Times disclosed the fact that his firm has been paid hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise on behalf of the anti-tobacco industry!" https://cei.org/blog/new-york-times-runs-stealth-anti-vaping-ad-op-ed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Vaping is the perfect example of a voluntary innovation derived from free enterprise that delivers better human health, at no cost to the taxpayer, and no inconvenience to society." https://capx.co/the-war-on-vaping-and-the-irresistible-urge-to-ban/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Among never-smoking youth, *daily* use is between 0.1% & 0.6%. "If more vaping means less smoking among teenagers, that represents a significant public health improvement, given the huge difference in risk between the two forms of nicotine consumption." https://reason.com/2019/05/07/the-upside-of-teen-vaping/ https://youtu.be/19VSDFq6Oeo?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking character, motive, or other attribute of person making argument, or persons associated with argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Determining that a tobacco-free product is safer than a product that delivers nicotine with thousands of tobacco smoke constituents is a fact of basic science, & anyone who challenges such a notion would probably benefit from a remedial course in basic sciences." - Prof M Siegel ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prohibition 2.0+ (worse because vaping is harm reduction) "It is absolutely irresponsible and dangerous behaviour to ban e-cigarettes." - Dr K Farsalinos “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” - Martin Luther King Jr. #VapersAreVoters #VapingSavesLives ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Debunking the claim that abstinence is usually healthier for smokers than switching to a low-risk alternative, and other observations about anti-tobacco-harm-reduction arguments" https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-6-29 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping does not meet the criteria of addiction. Habit = something you like (chocolate) Dependence = Habit+hard to quit (coffee) Addiction = Dependence+known harm (smoking) FDA says nicotine patches & gum don't even cause dependence. https://www.clivebates.com/the-great-american-youth-vaping-epidemic-really/#2 https://youtu.be/YmPL0ldKoz4?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Not an epidemic. *daily* use is between 0.1% & 0.6%. "So when you get into the numbers you see a completely different view of the problem, its a much smaller problem & much less of a cause for panic than we have seen in Canada & the US." - Clive Bates https://youtu.be/ZUDZ_TsiFLQ?t=5m23s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "changes brain" everything does = Misleading "anxious/temper/anger/changes" = Puberty "took us till a month ago to realise" After 4 years + crocodile tears = neglect "addiction" = Vaping doesn't meet the criteria "I screwed up" = Admits HIS screw up "prescribed gum" = Hypocrisy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping is vastly safer than smoking, a vital distinction. There is a difference between trying a substance and using it often & heavily enough that it causes health, social & life problems. https://filtermag.org/2019/01/14/harm-reduction-guide-parents-of-teens-who-vape/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Big Tobacco didn't invent nicotine vaporisers (e-cigarettes) and they don't control the vaping market. The industry is getting blown away by this disruptive technology. Big Tobacco is in Big Trouble. https://athra.org.au/is-vaping-a-conspiracy-created-by-big-tobacco/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very high exposure conditions, small vape shop, many vaping: Did not document any dangerous levels of exposure to any hazardous chemical. https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/05/vape-shop-air-sampling-by-california.html Requires 100 active vapers to reach same nicotine exposure, as would from one active smoker. https://bit.ly/2Hlw3pN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping does NOT cause Popcorn Lung "It had been detected in some e-liquid flavourings in the past, but at levels hundreds of times lower than in cigarette smoke. Even at these levels, smoking is not a major risk factor for this rare disease." https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/20/clearing-up-some-myths-around-e-cigarettes/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Levels of many harmful chemicals are much lower in people who switch from tobacco to e-cigarettes. Exposure may be similar to people who use nicotine replacement therapy, such as patches or gum, and these have been shown to be safe enough to prescribe. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/smoking-and-cancer/are-e-cigarettes-harmful ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "E-Cigarettes are orders of magnitude safer than conventional cigarettes." - Prof P Hajek "Promote vaping widely as substitute for smoking." - Royal College of Physicians "In exposure terms, quitting equates to switching to the ecig." - Prof R Polosa https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/20/clearing-up-some-myths-around-e-cigarettes/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vaping is the most effective way to quit smoking. "It is important to promote the use of e-cigarettes as widely as possible as a substitute for smoking" - Royal College of Physicians https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/e-cigs-twice-effective-nicotine-patches-gum-or-sprays-quitting/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779 https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N22Y3T3 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14656 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Vaping the perfect example of a voluntary innovation derived from free enterprise delivers better human health, no cost to taxpayers, & no inconvenience to society."https://capx.co/the-war-on-vaping-and-the-irresistible-urge-to-ban/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "FDA & other health groups’ incessant & unscientific war against e-cigarettes." "If you wanted to design a campaign to provoke teen defiance, you couldn’t do much better than what FDA, CDC, & other health groups have been doing over the last two years." https://cei.org/blog/fda-created-youth-vaping-epidemic-now-it%E2%80%99s-doubling-down ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There is no strong evidence that e-cigarettes are leading never smokers into cigarette smoking, in the UK. E-cigarettes have proved to be an important gateway out of smoking, not into it.” - ASH UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The so-called “gateway theory” has already been debunked several times, but it still remains one of the main arguments of vaping opponents all around the world. https://vaperanks.com/major-uk-study-shows-that-e-cigarettes-are-not-a-gateway-to-smoking-for-kids/ https://youtu.be/bfJ_dBJCM4A?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- “To say that e-cigarettes will encourage non-smokers to start lighting up is just like saying that fake fur will encourage animal-rights activists to start shooting pandas!” – Jules Hall https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/02/landmark-study-fails-to-find-any.html https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaping-gateway-smoking-still-more-hype-hazard/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is absolutely no credible evidence of a gateway from vaping to smoking. Landmark Study Fails to Find Any Evidence that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking among Youth http://ash.org.uk/media-and-news/press-releases-media-and-news/uks-largest-ever-analysis-of-data-shows-no-evidence-that-e-cigarettes-are-leading-young-people-into-smoking/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJ_dBJCM4A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MORE YOU KNOW: Examples of harm reduction that don't make things 100% safe incl. seat belts, bike helmets, clean needle exchanges, condoms, vaccines, chemotherapy, pasteurization, speed limits, parachutes, child-resistant caps...but safer "tobacco" products must be 100% safe? https://twitter.com/CASAAmedia/status/1112798777243525121 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Examples of harm reduction that don't make things 100% safe incl. seat belts, bike helmets, clean needle exchanges, condoms, vaccines, chemotherapy, pasteurization, speed limits, parachutes, child-resistant caps...but safer "tobacco" products must be 100% safe?" - CASAA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nicotine is not the major cause of any disease associated with smoking; it’s comparable to caffeine, safely consumed in coffee, tea, and cola." - Prof B Rodu "E-cigarettes are probably about as safe as drinking coffee." - Prof R West https://youtu.be/YmPL0ldKoz4?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nicotine has never caused harm to the user or to bystanders. That is why NRT products are now recommended by the FDA and the MHRA as long-term substitutes for smoking." - Dr K Farsalinos https://youtu.be/YmPL0ldKoz4?list=PLyRy08Oug6_1h8x7SquxN98EoLXrX_ROG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The crusaders against Americans who vape need to grow up. These bullies are acting more childish than experimental teens ever could." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Coordinated attack orchestrated by nanny-state activists funded by the likes of Mike Bloomberg. These crusaders are doing a great disservice to consumer freedom without regard for the truth or its impact on public health. We deserve better." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-crusade-against-juul-and-other-vaping-products-is-childish-even-for-tobacco-control ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984492 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14656 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/4/530/htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Polosa+R%5BAuthor%5D https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Farsalinos+KE%5BAuthor%5D https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Bauld+L%5BAuthor%5D https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Abrams+DB%5BAuthor%5D https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Hajek+P%5BAuthor%5D http://www.tobaccotoday.info/2017/12/22/bill-godshall-tobacco-harm-reduction-update/ http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/commit.nsf/(Evidence+Lookup+by+Com+ID)/5FBA9C6A7F311BD1482583CC001FE0A3/$file/cs.ccs.190327.tbp.002.bm.002.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14043-2 http://www.tobaccotoday.info/2017/12/22/bill-godshall-tobacco-harm-reduction-update/ http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/commit.nsf/(Evidence+Lookup+by+Com+ID)/5FBA9C6A7F311BD1482583CC001FE0A3/$file/cs.ccs.190327.tbp.002.bm.002.pdf https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7517-6-29 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14656 https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8uwoxay6i2fzb2/Docket%20No.%20FDA-2017-N-6565_FARSALINOS.pdf?dl=0 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/4/530/htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31005466 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28850065 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23984492 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-14-18 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021850217301155 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24029165 https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/25/Suppl_1/i90 @AddictionsPMC @RiccardoPolosa @FarsalinosK @BradRodu @LindaBauld ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no epidemic. Youth are being weaponized as a tool for Big Pharma, Tobacco Control, Political & financial ideology/agendas. The evidence of this is vast, you might see it if you spent a second to look instead of mindlessly doing their bidding and spreading their disinformation/propaganda. “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” - Adolf Hitler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A very wise man once told me "Vape on, Vape hard and don't let the bastards grind ya down" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think that as a revenge tactic we need to band together and be single issue voters. Whoever was against vaping, even if we put someone else in who is aginst vaping, just to show them: You fucked us, we fuck you!" - Mike Vapes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. Our business and revenue will always follow that mission in ways that improve – and do not detract from – a free and global conversation." - @Twitter https://youtu.be/64gTjdUrDFQ https://shadowban.eu/


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