Business owner for 26 years, cricket lover, kebab eater, wine drinker, vaper, former Lucozade customer, Fellow at @Protectaxpayers, unrepentant hedonist
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28 Nov 2024
Along with @RogerBate3 at @LawEconCenter, I've co-authored a comprehensive white paper on why the @WHO's behaviour and failings with regard to its @FCTCofficial tobacco treaty show that it cannot be trusted with a proposed pandemic treaty. 🧵1/3 laweconcenter.org/resources/…
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“If the aim is to end smoking … global tobacco control policy must prioritise the rapid replacement of cigarettes by less harmful nicotine alternatives” - two former @WHO Directors describe how the global bureaucracy has everything wrong. Via @TheLancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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“The design appears less like an open consultation and more like a path towards a pre-selected conclusion” - @eunews reports on valid criticism of the @EU_Commission’s perverse public consultation by @europethra. eunews.it/en/2026/06/11/crit…
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Architects of Australia's world-worst tobacco policy, admit there is "a lack of empirical evidence on tobacco control outcomes" on making cigs look awful. But they want to do it anyway. That's how you got to where you are now, muppets. #ClownCountry academic.oup.com/heapro/arti…
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Jun 12
"Caroline Cerny, a public health expert (sic) at @AshOrgUK, says that “recreational nicotine use has become increasingly normalised, separate from smoking.”"
Erm, nicotine has been used recreationally for 12,000 years. It's ALWAYS been normal. 🤪bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026…
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Via @reason, here is yet another example of 'public health' officials perverting democracy in favour of their own selfish prejudice. These are the type of people who we laugh at for co-ordinating witch trials in the past. Sadly, they still infest society. reason.com/2026/06/11/find-s…
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Jun 11
1/2 Here we go again. @PartnershipFree lobbyists are trying to pervert democracy by demanding that the EU ignores public responses to a call for evidence on its excessive proposals for safer nicotine products. smokefreepartnership.eu/news…
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2/3 It has been prompted because there are currently over 62,000 feedback responses to the call for evidence. Understandably, considering it proposes huge taxes and heavy restrictions on safer nicotine products, backed up by lies from @OliverVarhelyi.
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3/3 If you haven't added your comments to the process that they want to undermine, it is open until June 15th. Click here to get involved at the EU's "Have Your Say" page. A say that @PartnershipFree doesn't believe you should be able to have. ec.europa.eu/info/law/better…
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Vapers are taking up smoking to quit vapes following the avalanche of misinformation about them.
Another stunning tobacco control industry success! #Bravo 🤦♂️
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Via @clearingthe_air, how heavily-funded lobbyists, architects of the worst tobacco and nicotine policy in the world, and a tiny and easily manipulated Pacific island are promoting a new drug war on nicotine. Anti-vaxxers, eat your heart out! clearingtheair.eu/en/post/th…
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This is hilarious! The dimwit protege of a boneheaded Sydney pensioner explains why literally everything that has now happened in Australia was never going to happen because industry warned about it. 🥴 #ClownCountry x.com/BradK87287/status/2064…
Jun 10
"Two years ago, a Dutch MP told me a black market wouldn't happen"
Same story in Australia
Like a group of students falsely believing they got their hands on an exam's answers, so they all answer the same questions wrong
International Coordinated Failure, & WHO is the central hub
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The Dutch Minister of Public Health says 87% of vapers are using illegal products. (The country has banned all the flavours people want). Two years ago, a Dutch MP told me a black market wouldn't happen as they had a plan. Looks like it failed. 🥴🤡 nltimes.nl/2026/06/09/genera…
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"A policy failure on all fronts." Australia is so screwed thanks to tobacco control industry extremists. #ClownCountry
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Would the Australian state please stop interfering in the illegal business that it created? Love, the criminals. #ClownCountry
Serious concerns have been raised about the increased threat to Australia from organised crime after suspected tobacco smugglers brazenly shot at a boat involved in an Australian Border Force operation.
DETAILS: bit.ly/4xj14Tl
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"Bans [of safer nicotine products] run counter to the core principles of bioethics and public health ethics." @etterjf has published an excellent commentary on the state of 'public health' attitudes towards THR. Well worth a read. profetter.substack.com/p/pro…
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Australia Tried To Tax Smoking Out of Existence. Now 80% of Tobacco Aussies Consume Is From the Black Market. reason.com/2026/06/05/austra… via @reason
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“Brussels has watched the [Swedish] experiment run for thirty years and learned nothing.”
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“Not only do these taxes largely fall on working-class consumers, they also undermine efforts to get smokers to switch from cigarettes” <- Yep, it’s #NotAboutHealth, more likely snobbery. If rich people smoked, all alternatives would be available. timesobserver.com/uncategori…
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