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My #GFN25 Michael Russell Oration is up! I start with recapping the state of the (flawed) science and what I think are the root causes in the academic system.

Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association (CASAA) will end its active advocacy in August due to lack of funds. By Kiran Sidhu: filtermag.org/nicotine-consu…

being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot

If you work for a new media upstart taking money from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and you only write on food, tobacco, vaping, alcohol and chemical issues, then you are playing the role of Michael's bitch. Get used to it. See my case study on The Examination THE FIREBREAK

'produce the stories according to the narrative defined by the interest groups funding them, and this paid propaganda gets coverage in...New York Times, the Guardian, Washington Post...legacy media outlets don’t have to pay any of the costs. Everyone wins (except the truth)'

The odds of an adult getting attacked by an alligator in the Everglades are astronomical. Alligators don’t view grown humans as viable prey items. The real danger for an escaped prisoner would be mosquitoes.

🚨New paper alert🚨 TLDR: Most youth e-cig use starting ~2019 peak was transient & experimental: ▶️52% stopped by 2021 ▶️60%⬇️degree of use ▶️Concern should be on escalation (17%) & heavy use (5%) This is an unfunded side project, not related to my consulting to Juul & CoEHAR

David The Risk-Monger has been doing a brilliant job calling out junk science for a long time. Now he’s calling out the nefarious system of “journalism” making the activists appear legitimate. substack.com/home/post/p-14… h/t Clive Bates

Scale of the Bloomberg anti-vaping operation. 146 "tobacco control grantees" assembled in Dublin #WCTC2025. Only part of the global influencing complex funded to promote the prohibitionist ideas of one overconfident, unaccountable billionaire Mike Bloomberg #notcivilsociety

Looks like Altria's efforts to push "vape registry" bills in states is paying off for them (with more cigarette sales): "Regulatory Enforcement Fuels Cigarette Stability and Value" "The regulatory crackdown on illicit e-cigarette imports—a years-long thorn in Altria's side—is

3 cheers for Jukka - in fact make it 20! Jukka Kelovuori has been the most active (does he ever sleep?), knowledgeable & helpful THR advocate on Twitter. Trying to remember that study about ??? - he’ll find it! Congratulations on 10YRS Jukka — don’t ever leave us! THANK YOU. 🎉❤️

🚨 NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has officially detailed the torture he endured inside El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison. In a federal court filing, he says he: – Lost 31 pounds in two weeks – Was forced to kneel for 9 hours straight – Was beaten with boots and batons – Had no

Critics challenged our Addiction study comparing AU & NZ #vaping policy. Their claims were either addressed in our paper or based on misunderstandings. Our response is now published Data, not dogma, should drive policy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad… Alex Wodak AM Ben Youdan @clive_bates

🚭 The generational tobacco ban "creates a growing class of people to whom it will never be lawful to sell tobacco products. A policy like this has never been tried before in the UK or elsewhere and it raises several legal questions." ✍️ Robert Buckland

❗️Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Very loud explosions heard in the city. The Russian drone attack continues for almost seven hours now. Fires in several areas of Kyiv.

UFC fights on the White House lawn really feels like one of those 2015 Onion stories about a potential Trump Presidency x.com/atrupar/status…

As predicted. With no more domestic opposition, Trump's corruption is being distilled into the pure form. No more pretense about peace or politics, just money into pockets.

Watching an old Twilight Zone episode where a man becomes obsessed with a devil machine coin fortune teller. The machine gives generic answers but he becomes paralyzed, unable to make a decision without consulting it. Anyway, some of these episodes are a bit farfetched.

Ironic that they call themselves “change makers” when in fact they are blocking the very change that is urgently needed - ending combustible tobacco. There efforts are not only misguided but deadly for 1.3 billion people who smoke. #vapingsaveslives #WCTC2025

Neither FCTC or MPOWER measures seem to explain why European countries have a low or high tobacco smoking prevalence. There's virtually zero association one way or the other. Data source (Table 1): tobaccoinduceddiseases.org/Tobacco-endgam… H/t Geoff Vann.