So many people are quitting smoking that there's not enough money to help smokers quit? Forgive me for saying, but that's a profoundly stupid observation. ALL states are heavily dependent on cigarette sin taxes to pad their budgets. ALL stint on smoking cessation funding.

This guy deletes and re-replies the same AI-generated comment to clear out the undefensable replies he got. Had like 4 replies that completely nullified what he said. New meta on X to clear comments you don't like. Just go argue with chat gpt privately, Jerome.

Adding a thought here, respectfully: The risk differential is real and well-established: * Cigarettes involve combustion → thousands of toxic chemicals * Noncombustible products → substantially reduced exposure to those toxicants Many people misunderstand or underestimate how large the difference actually is. For the many smokers who can’t or don’t want to quit nicotine — which does not cause the illnesses and deaths resulting from smoking — it isn’t about both cigarettes and vapes being “bad,” but about moving down the well-established continuum of risk to an option that is much safer. Many members of the armed services — I see you’re a proud Navy vet (thank you) — do exactly this for very good reasons. I hope that helps.

Glantz: "The most comprehensive summary of evidence" Study authors:

Can you point out where any of these former or current @FDATobacco employees including @DrMakaryFDA are incorrect?

After all these years they still keep repeating the same old debunked arguments. There are countless community notes on all the issues raised in this article but i guess it pulls in clicks

Now served with a community note.

“Too commonly, vaping is still viewed as something dangerous that should not be used as a smoking cessation tool – in fact the opposite is true.”

Your little article contains health misinformation about relative risks. According to the @US_FDA, such misinformation reduces smoking cessation. And there is no longer any question about this: Nicotine vapes are much safer and help people quit smoking. So please #QuitLying.

6/ Bottom line: The consistency across meta-analyses is striking—nicotine e-cigs can help people quit smoking. The challenge now is how to use this evidence responsibly in policy and practice. 📄 Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @Oxford_TAG

How the turn tables... Kennedy said: "We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, ‘Show us the safety data that show that it’s OK for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it.'" Must be 21 to enter, have ID ready newsweek.com/rfk-jrs-dunkin-…

Brain Worms! Nicotine! Vaping! Oh no! @adamcarolla @drdrew youtu.be/GM16gGQxPBU?si=GdXk…

"There were no significant differences found in cardiovascular disease occurrence for exclusive e-cigarette users compared to nonusers of any tobacco product." digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/cg…

Evidence 🧵 2010 Nicotine vaping avoids combustion (the main source of smoking harm), early peer-reviewed lab work comparing cigarette smoke vs e-cig aerosol characteristics “Conventional and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have different smoking characteristics” academic.oup.com/ntr/article… 2011 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (harm reduction framing supported by the then-available evidence base) “Electronic Cigarettes as a Harm Reduction Strategy for Tobacco Control: A Step Forward or a Repeat of Past Mistakes” vaportechnology.org/wp-conte… 2012 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (measured indoor-air pollutants far lower vs cigarette smoke) “Comparison of the effects of e-cigarette vapor and cigarette smoke on indoor air quality” articles.researchsolutions.c… 2013 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (cigarette smoke extract far more cytotoxic than e-cig vapor extract in vitro) “Cytotoxicity evaluation of electronic cigarette vapor extract… comparison with tobacco cigarette smoke extract” gwern.net/doc/nicotine/2013-… 2014 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (key toxicants measured much lower in vapor vs smoke) “Levels of selected carcinogens and toxicants in vapour from electronic cigarettes” tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/conte… 2015 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (TSNAs are minimal in e-cig liquid/aerosol; plus “dry puff” conditions matter for aldehydes) “Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines in Electronic Cigarettes: Comparison between Liquid and Aerosol Levels” mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/8/9046 2016 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (broad toxicant panel shows dramatically lower emissions vs cigarette smoke) “Chemical Composition of Aerosol from an E-Cigarette: A Quantitative Comparison with Cigarette Smoke” pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021… 2017 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (biomarkers of carcinogens/toxins far lower in long-term exclusive vapers vs smokers) “Nicotine, Carcinogen, and Toxin Exposure in Long-Term E-Cigarette and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Users” discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprin… 2018 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (switching studies show toxicant biomarkers fall quickly when smokers switch) “Biomarkers of Tobacco Exposure Decrease After Smokers Switch to an E-Cigarette or Nicotine Gum” academic.oup.com/ntr/article… 2019 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (population biomarker data: exclusive e-cig users show markedly lower toxicant exposure vs smokers) “Comparison of Nicotine and Toxicant Exposure in Users of Electronic Cigarettes and Cigarettes” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… 2020 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (comparative chemistry reviews continue to show substantially lower toxicant emissions vs cigarettes) “The Evolving E-cigarette: Comparative Chemical Analyses of E-cigarette Aerosols” frontiersin.org/journals/tox… 2021 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (fewer compounds lower concentrations in e-cig aerosol vs cigarette smoke) “The Chemical Complexity of e-Cigarette Aerosols Compared With the Smoke from a Tobacco Burning Cigarette” frontiersin.org/journals/che… 2022 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (24-week randomized clinical trial: exposure/potential-harm biomarkers improve after switching) “Biomarkers of Exposure and Biomarkers of Potential Harm… in a 24-week, Randomized, Clinical Trial” academic.oup.com/ntr/article… 2023 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (real-world biomarker comparisons: smokers highest; exclusive ENDS lower) “Comparison of biomarkers of exposure among US adult smokers, ENDS users, dual users and nonusers, 2018–2019” nature.com/articles/s41598-0… 2024 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (systematic review/meta-analysis: TSNA exposure is far higher in smokers than exclusive vapers) “Exposure to Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines Among People Who Vape, Smoke, or do Neither: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” academic.oup.com/ntr/article… 2025 Nicotine vaping is less harmful than continuing to smoke (comparative emissions synthesis: TSNAs lower in e-cig aerosol than cigarette smoke) “Tobacco-specific nitrosamine exposure from electronic cigarettes versus combustible cigarettes” frontiersin.org/journals/onc… When does, 'not enough evidence yet' stop being cautionary and turn into denial? 16 years of evidence on any product other than nicotine would have been policy already. #Science

Thank you to the World Health Organization for allowing Community Notes to correct the record on some common myths that many people may not have known were myths.

Legend has it this myth will outlive all of us, the internet, and possibly the sun.

After 16 years, my @YouTube channel (GrimmGreen) was terminated today with no real explanation. I’ve built my content around harm reduction, helping adult smokers quit, and advocating for science-based policies. This feels like a huge mistake. If you believe in THR, free speech, and the mission we’ve been on, please help me get YouTube’s attention. @TeamYouTube I’m asking for a real human to review my case. I’ve never promoted anything illegal. I’ve never targeted youth. I’ve worked tirelessly to be a responsible voice in the vaping and harm reduction space. But like many creators in this space, it seems I’ve been swept up in an overly aggressive moderation wave.

To everyone in the global tobacco harm-reduction community. Consumers, advocates, scientists, independent researchers, frontline vape-shop professionals, and policy experts. Thank you! Your commitment, your evidence-driven voices, and your refusal to give up on safer alternatives have changed lives. You’ve stood up against misinformation, stigma, and policy environments that too often ignore the lived experiences of people who have actually made the switch. This music video is dedicated to you, the people pushing for a future where fewer families are harmed by smoking, and where adults have access to tools that genuinely work. But the mission is far from over. Millions still smoke, and far too many are making decisions in an environment clouded by misinformation. When the truth about safer alternatives is distorted or hidden, people are left without the knowledge they need to make informed, potentially life-changing choices. And while the consequences fall on individuals and families, the conversations and policies shaping these choices often exclude the voices of those most affected. If you’ve switched from cigarettes to a reduced-harm product, or you know someone who has, please share this post. Help us amplify real stories, real science, and real hope. The more people who hear it, the more lives we can change. Let’s keep moving forward. The work continues, and so does our collective impact.