Thank you @TammyTyrrell_ for your common sense, compassion & pragmatism re vaping. No one has as yet been able to explain why low risk vapes are severely restricted in Australia while deadly cigarettes are readily available. Completely nuts @SenatorJordon @AdamBandt @LivePippas

Simon, that would be only a relevent statement if vapes were tobacco products, but they are not! Tarring vapes with the same cancer causing tar found in combustible tobacco only makes one look uneducated and silly! "There is no good evidence that vapes cause cancer" said the CEO of the Cancer council yesterday! Is she lying?

Highly recommend reading @Clive_Bates analysis here. Very important. Hard to believe Alice in Wonderland thinking of tobacco control survived this long

Disposables ARE now the most "popular" vapes with US teen vapers. The 2023 NYTS shows: 7.7% use nicotine vapes “at least once in the past month” 35% use them frequently, so may routinely buy products = 2.7% 60.7% of THOSE use disposables = 1.6% of teens

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Deeply upsetting that former long-standing public health colleagues now happily engage in wholesale sophistry & any unscrupulous tactic they think might work to attack tobacco harm reduction

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Good to see this thoughtful effort at reframing #vaping as a double - edged sword.⁦@matthewscott111⁩ ⁦@drayeshaverrall⁩ ⁦@hapaitehauora⁩ ⁦@HealthCoA⁩ newsroom.co.nz/pasifika-comm…

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Let’s get some discussion going on how to deal with the vaping in schools – advice for teachers @HealthCoA @ASHNZ2025 @AlexWodak @hapaitehauora @drayeshaverrall @hapai_tc @https://colinmendelsohn.com.au/schools/

How to deal with the vaping in schools – advice for teachers colinmendelsohn.com.au/schoo…

Not quite enough! a modest addition to current tobacco control measures. #Vaping as an alternative way of accessing nicotine, works too! One third decline in smoking in NZ in past 2 years suggests Smokefree 2025 goal will be reached.⁦@ASHNZ2025⁩ a theguardian.com/society/2023…

Transformation is following demand (not driving it). In the Middle East alone Bhutan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi all have some form of vape ban. Public health has to take some share of blame in sustaining smoked tobacco markets in those regions.

Poor, middle-aged Australians are more likely to SMOKE and die from cancer – and the gap is widening in the absence of Tobacco harm reduction #vaping theconversation.com/poor-mid… via @ConversationEDU

It’s all in the results - one third decline in smoking in past 2 years in NZ - most likely a result of switching to vaping by cigarette smokers. ⁦@ASHNZ2025⁩ ⁦@minhealthnz⁩ ⁦@drayeshaverrall⁩ protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Dc…