The Global Forum on Nicotine 2026 (#GFN26) team is delighted to announce our first speaker - and the person who will be delivering this year’s Michael Russell Oration – is Dr
@alexwodak.bsky.social AM. He will be promising victory and how this relates to Darwin’s Origin of Species.
After decades of steady increase in 2016-17 shares in several tobacco companies began to slide. Why? Swedish Match began to increase. Philip Morris International recovered after few years. Were investors worried about slow transformation?
Hypothetically: What if there are safer nicotine alternatives to the deadly cigarettes that kill 490,000 Americans every year, and 8 million worldwide?
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FYI: icotine patches and nicotine gum ARE #SaferNicotine alternatives. They're on the WHO "Essential Medicines List."
@caphra.bsky.social warns Australia’s vape quasi prohibition failed, regulation only feasible option. Organised crime now controls A$4bn black market in Australia fuelled by removing legal access to safer nicotine products while demand unchanged. Press release: bit.ly/49qtlh6
Amazingly tobacco control still deny vapes & other safer smoke free nicotine products substitute for deadly cigarettes! For how much longer? @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social @paulrgregoire.bsky.social
Australia’s illegal tobacco crisis didn’t appear out of nowhere. It’s the predictable result of policy choices that removed regulated access and replaced it with prohibition, while demand stayed steady.
#TobaccoControl #HarmReduction #Australia www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO26...
WHO FCTC agreed 2003. Next 12 years BAT shares ⬆️ 6 fold! Suggest to you FCTC held back Big Tobacco? @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @clivebates.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @crikey.com.au @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
Marihuana Tax 1937 US but because impossible to pay cannabis de facto illegal. Australia sky high cigarette excise 2020s, cigarettes de facto illegal @jamomartin.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social
The science is clear: that viral study linking vaping to early strokes has been officially RETRACTED. 🚫🧠 Neurology International pulled the paper over "major errors" in data analysis and impossible sample sizes. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/stud...
Cliche. Duh. Obvious. But now some data...👇
"...men who feel insecure about their masculinity are more likely to place a high value on having a large penis."
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From study: "...driven by insecurity regarding fulfilling the masculine role."
What happens when smokers switch to e-cigarettes? Peer-reviewed studies covering (1) cancer, (2) cardiovascular and (3) lung health. NOTE…
APTHR Media || for immediate release || word count 275 approximately [starts] CAPHRA warns Australian Senate: prohibition has failed, regulation is the only way forward The Coalition of Asia Pacifi...
A 2022 paper reporting higher odds and earlier onset of stroke among people who use vapes has been formally retracted. The journal said an investigation identified major data-analysis errors and that…
Research involving four studies found that men’s value for a large penis relates to threatened masculinity, dominance, and aggression. The findings suggest that feeling inadequate as a man increases t...
