How can we tackle misconceptions about nicotine? It starts with how we think about policy.
On The @SmokelessWord: Live from the Lab, Dr James Murphy and @jgitchell explore the role of policies in reducing smoking prevalence and misconceptions about nicotine.
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=x8PRlcn9…
"It’s an and, not an or." - Couldn't have put it better myself.
That's the key message from this week's episode, where @jgitchell joins Dr James Murphy to discuss tobacco harm reduction, nicotine misperceptions and lessons from around the world.
Catch a sneak peek below ⬇️
The conversation continues.
I'm delighted to see Dr James Murphy take audiences inside the science with The Smokeless World: Live from the Lab, exploring the evidence, innovation and research behind building a smokeless world.
Take a look at what’s coming ⬇️
$BTI$BATS now trades at an 11.1% expected yield (excluding any future multiple changes, excluding any benefit from flavored vapes in the US)
Dividend yield: 5.7%
Buyback yield: 1.4%
APFO growth: 4.0%
That's 11.1%. Now add some growth benefit from flavored vapes...
Australia's illegal tobacco control has been branded a “global laughing stock” as data reveals the country’s black market trumps dozens of other nations.
skynews.com.au/australia-new…
The Albanese government is facing renewed pressure to adjust its approach to tackling the illicit tobacco market as new data shows a shocking drop in excise revenue and a huge uptake in illegal products.
skynews.com.au/australia-new…
$BTI$BATS crazy moves. I've crossed 81k shares now, looking forward to a $66k dividend next month followed by Velo Max and flavored Vuse launches in the US. 🫠
America’s strategy to beat China in the AI race is going to eventually devolve into bringing back cigarette vending machines, office stimulants, and 20-hour non stop work sessions fueled entirely by nicotine and caffeine.
I’ve written at the @washexaminer about @MikeBloomberg’s recent fact free article about the @US_FDA authorising flavoured vapes. He must be frustrated at how his billions have failed to prevent a valid alternative for smokers. washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
❗ 🇸🇪 Three days after being declared by the European Parliament as the EU's first official smoke-free nation, Sweden has blocked the EU's proposed tobacco tax directive, rejecting what was going to be a massive excise hike on safer nicotine products.
Dr Delon Human, Smoke Free Sweden: "Sweden has stuck to its guns, and it is right to."
Read more 👇
smokefreesweden.org/2026/06/…
EU Tobacco Tax Directive: European Parliament ECON Committee backs lower tobacco tax increases and longer phase-ins than the EU Commission proposal
tobaccoinsider.com/tobacco-r…
Next: plenary vote on 17 June, then Council negotiations
A keeper offers his monkeys 3 chestnuts in the morning, 4 at night. They rage. He reverses it — 4, then 3. They're delighted. The total, 7, never changed.
Zhuangzi, ~2,300 years ago. Also: $PM vs $BTI so far year to date. 🧵