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New paper estimates the number of 18-25s in the UK taking up smoking each year, at a national, regional, and local level. UK: 125,700 per year England: 105,700 Scotland: 11,500 Wales: 6,500 Northern Ireland: 3,800 academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-ar…

This is a seriously powerful speech, worth watching.

Attention, national media. I was told this phrase is a globe-shattering transgression. I await your breathless tweets.

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

Um the student in the selfie has a phone.

Is a swastika really less anti-social than a gang patch? My #cartoon today #nzpol

Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of October 28 - November 3 nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmerso…

THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.

This thread seems relevant given today's revealations about the highly critical comments from a senior Ministry of Health official about the 'independent advice' Minister Costello cited to support the HTP excise tax cut.

Could ⁦nzherald⁩ please disclose that tobacco companies are members of ⁦The NZ Initiative⁩ when ⁦Eric Crampton⁩ writes about tobacco nzherald.co.nz/business/eric-…

Paris fighting pollution and improving public health. -No diesel cars from 2024 -100% #cleanenergy buses by 2025 -No petrol cars from 2030 -improving bike and pedestrian infrastructure. We have the solutions, implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal

Difficult to come to any other conclusion than Govt policy has torpedoed the EV and PHEV market in NZ. newsroom.co.nz/2024/11/06/new…

John Iaonnidis and collaborators just published a preprint estimating lives saved all over the world from the vaccine rollouts They estimated 2.533 million deaths were averted, 82% among people vaccinated before any infection (thus exposing their immune system to the sarscov2

Portugal shut down their last remaining coal fired power plant and is fostering a renewable energy revolution. They could be completely renewable by 2040 if not sooner. It can be done. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #go100re

Kia ora. Currently on a sick day due to COVID. I thought I would use the time productively & begin migrating to bsky.social in response to recent events with X/Musk/US Election. New handle is Paul Edwards, CDC.bsky.social Hopefully, see you there.

Jeffrey G. Willett and Maher Karam-Hage put forward a very thoughtfully argued endgame strategy for tobacco smoking in the United States. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…