Former smoker/current #vaper & #TobaccoHarmReduction advocate. #THR is a #HumanRight. #Nicotine should be legal in #Australia! #IVapeIVote #VapingSavesLives
Sydney, Australia
Joined October 2015
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Which #vape shop (online or B&M) in #America will #BeTheFirst to make bumper stickers (3:1 aspect ratio) of #IVapeIVote & include them with every sale?
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I'm on break. From Twitter and THR advocacy.
Don't know when I'll be back - I've got a huge pile of projects that need commencing or completing.
Take care & all the best with the great advocacy y'all do. 👋
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The Vaper retweeted
"Gangs fighting to control state’s illicit tobacco and vape market are using children to commit arson, inquiry hears"
"However, he said the force did not want to be the enforcer of any tobacco regulations."
Things are going just swimmingly...
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The Vaper retweeted
For a universal primer on debunking anti-vaping bullshit, look no further than this masterful takedown of tobacco control submissions to Australia's Senate inquiry by the always-on @ColinMendelsohn. Outstanding!
colinmendelsohn.com.au/senat…
The Vaper retweeted
It is disappointing to read inaccurate information about #THR from WHO on Twitter. Accurate information is crucial for public health. We encourage everyone to perform substantial studies on the benefits of tobacco harm reduction and the benefits to smokers who are attempting to quit. #TobaccoHarmReduction
The Vaper retweeted
Another Labor government MP gets information called out in a community note!
Vaping was sold as a therapeutic product to help long-term smokers quit, not a recreational product marketed to kids.
Young people who vape are three times as likely to take up smoking and under 25s are the only cohort showing an increase in smoking rates.
This must end.
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Most studies claiming a gateway cannot prove causation, and they mostly don't consider "common liability" to be a factor, some even use 1 puff as definition for being a smoker.
When vaping goes up, smoking goes down.
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The Vaper retweeted
How many people who submitted to the Federal Government’s
THERAPEUTIC GOODS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (VAPING REFORMS) BILL 2024 [PROVISIONS]
inquiry can see their submission published on their website by 5pm today (Tuesday)?
16%Yes I see it
84%No I can’t
44 votes • Final results The Vaper retweeted
But stabbing >17 million members of the community in the back is ok????
Vaping is saving the “community” from death and disease from cigarettes!
You have state senators like @polley_helen block community members, censoring them from voicing their opinions. Don’t be hypocritical
The Vaper retweeted
When vaping deniers say ‘we know absolute fact tobacco companies deliberately design vapes to target children, addict whole new generation to nicotine’ they know they can get away with it as no one demands they produce evidence @LivePippas @VaperNt @drjoesDIYhealth @vaper_the
The Vaper retweeted
If this works, *how* do you think it works?
I would say it is designed to work through humiliation and stigma. By making the person who smokes look like and feel like a fool. It’s nothing to do with informing people about risks. It’s gleefully sadistic.
Your view?
The Vaper retweeted
MelissaLDavey back in Grauniad on her anti vaping blitzkrieg with quotes from all your favourite vaping haters (Simon missing?) but sorry no room for any quotes from experts with other views. Balance? No mention firebombings, killings @LivePippas theguardian.com/australia-ne…
The Vaper retweeted
Using prevalence statistics from 6 years ago, when newer data exist, is proof of either ignorance or deliberate misleading, @nickmmark.
High school overall tobacco use is at its lowest point ever.
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They seem to be processing the 'high volume of submissions' at a glacial pace.
The other day I saw only 5 new subs posted. There are currently 111 and it's been that way all day.
When is this inquiry due to /report/ @ausgov? 🤨
#Australia
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The Vaper retweeted
Want to stop most/all illegal vapes entering Australia?
How when arriving in Australia/year:
➡️ 7.8 million containers but inspection capacity only 100,800?
➡️billions parcels?
➡️27,000 km coastline mostly deserted?
➡️nicotine vapes odourless?
1/2
The Vaper retweeted
Public health organizations are PURPOSEFULLY LYING
These @CommunityNotes are being applied to their posts day after day
They should be held civilly liable
Smokers and ex smokers need to start suing these organizations for blatant and willful lies
#itsallaruse
⚠️ Vaping Alert! ⚠️ Did you know? Over 1000 cases of lung injuries nationwide are linked to vaping marijuana and nicotine. 🚭 Vaping isn't safe! Not all vapor products undergo safety testing. Protect your health – avoid vaping! #VapeSafety #StayInformed #NoVaping
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The “1000’s” of cases of lung injuries have been found to have been caused by THC vaping. Vaping THC and Vaping nicotine are completely different mechanisms. Therefore stating “vaping is not safe” is misleading and not true in all cases. EVALI is THC associated.
colinmendelsohn.com.au/evali-2/
The Vaper retweeted
Trendlines for #smoking and #vaping look good for public health.
A cynic--not me--would say that this explains why so-called public interest groups are now so strongly against vaping. They need a new enemy and reason to be. I would hate to think that's the case.
This happened over the past decade according to @CDCgov NYTS and NHIS findings.
It's not up for debate. This IS what those surveys show, and they're super-easy to #FactCheck.
OK. So WHO LOOSES when US cigarette sales hit zero in 2037?
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The Vaper retweeted
@AustralianLabor's #vaping bans have failed. Don't take my word for it. Hear what @Joe_Hildebrand, @BenFordham, @drjoesDIYhealth, @DrNicoleLee, and @ColinMendelsohn have to say.
The Vaper retweeted
Australia can't turn blind eye to Vaping, AND THEY SHOULDNT! They should Embrace Vape for the tremendous help to many smokers. Vape not only STOPS SMOKING, but gives back Health as a Never Smoker! But OZ is so busy growing the blk mrkt by not parenting, they use blinders!
The Vaper retweeted
Now served with a community note.
⚠️ Vaping Alert! ⚠️ Did you know? Over 1000 cases of lung injuries nationwide are linked to vaping marijuana and nicotine. 🚭 Vaping isn't safe! Not all vapor products undergo safety testing. Protect your health – avoid vaping! #VapeSafety #StayInformed #NoVaping
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The “1000’s” of cases of lung injuries have been found to have been caused by THC vaping. Vaping THC and Vaping nicotine are completely different mechanisms. Therefore stating “vaping is not safe” is misleading and not true in all cases. EVALI is THC associated.
colinmendelsohn.com.au/evali-2/
