Attorney & policy strategist focused on harm reduction, nicotine regulation, and FDA policy.
Joined November 2011
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Donald Trump has been President for 40 minutes and he has not yet saved Flavored Vaping.
6 Nov 2024
Now, he has to keep his promise and save vaping. 😀
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Laura Leigh is consistently one of the most thoughtful people in this space.
Highly recommend this interview.
Below, she connects FDA’s 180-day clock for enforcement discretion to the agency’s bigger litigation problem.
My latest video, with special guest @RzbkRedMosquito from @HayppGroup.
We discuss the history and recent changes in US regulation of nicotine pouches and e-cigarettes. Thanks, Laura Leigh, for sharing your expertise!
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State health officials scouted towns, scripted hearings, recruited teen witnesses, and celebrated each ban as a "win."
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Jun 12
Cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands yearly and are sold everywhere. But flavored vapes — which evidence suggests help adults quit smoking — trigger political panic. That's not public health policy. That's performance. Regulation should be based on evidence, not moral signaling. Learn more from @dr4liberty and Caleb O. Brown.
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I am seeing a "Let's not go crazy about this" coalition slowly forming
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RT @RzbkRedMosquito: I'm seeing a flood of cigarette smoking content across different platforms these days. Is it my algorithm, or is it be…
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Palau has asked the UN to put nicotine on the same list as crystal meth, ecstasy and the date-rape drug GHB. The people behind the application are the same lobbyists advising the EU Commission on its TPD revision. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/th… @clearingthe_air
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Common sense from @FDATobacco — if your vaping product comes with device access restrictions to limit use to adults, that should reduce the evidentiary burden needed for authorization.
But this directly contradicts the language of pending FDA guidance.
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Jun 11
Important but troubling new reporting from @gbentley1. Through records requests, he found that 13 Massachusetts municipalities are using state-funded programs to lobby for generational nicotine (not just tobacco) bans. reason.com/2026/06/11/find-s…
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NFHS data shows despite ban on booze, Biharis are drinking more. Worse, they're drinking illicit alcohol. Same with gutka ban (6-fold rise in a decade). Time govt understands prohibition is not the magic bullet.
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Must read, with lots of receipts from public records requests.
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‘Find Some Kids’: How Health Officials Drummed Up Fake Support for Tobacco Bans in Massachusetts Towns reason.com/2026/06/11/find-s…
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Ohio HB 849 Could Reshape the Vapor Industry — Retailers Need to Act Now
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Jun 10
Excellent breakdown of a recent alarmist article claiming switching to vaping doesn't reduce lung cancer risk.
Actually it does, even according to the paper. But the more fundamental issue is that people who quit smoking decades ago have lower lung cancer risk than people who switched to vaping (which necessarily was more recent).
So cancer risk associated with shorter quit duration is being blamed on vaping.
How vaping scare stories are made | Snowdon Substack snowdon.substack.com/p/how-v…
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Jun 9
I welcome feedback and questions regarding my latest podcast interview. Gratitude and props to @camjenglish and @DrLizaMD for hosting an insightful conversation on the great opportunity we have to reduce harm from smoking.
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Nicotine vaping—public health miracle, or risk to children? Professor Cliff Douglas geneticliteracyproject.org/2… via @GeneticLiteracy
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Americans go to Europe and are inspired by the piazzas and cafes, Europeans come to Georgia and are in awe of huge houses 65 miles north of the airport.
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Just passing through a town called Gainesville and this place looks beautiful. The houses are insane wow.
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I don't know what's going with the KNICKS game, but I can tell you what's going on in the NIC game.
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Wages and White Lion v. FDA returns to the Fifth Circuit tomorrow for oral arguments. SCOTUS last year upheld FDA’s marketing denial orders for flavored e-cigs at issue, but remanded the case back to the appeals court to reconsider harmless-error standard.
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Current smoking prevalence according to Eurobarometer 2023:
Sweden: 8%
France: 27%
A Swedish anti-tobacco non-profit think tank gives a 10,000 SEK prize to a French lawyer for helping to ban nicotine pouches in France.
You can't make this stuff up! 🥴
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2Firsts looks at Nicotine 2030, a policy report by Derek Yach, supported by Zanoprima Lifesciences.
The report raises a timely question: should nicotine regulation move beyond bans and warnings into tax policy, insurance pricing and risk-based tools?
#TobaccoControl #THR #Nicotine #Regulation #2Firsts
2firsts.com/news/bringing-ta…
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