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Public sector groups seem to have forgotten that public consultations are supposed to receive responses from the public.
"Stakeholders without a stake" - my take on the questionable stakeholder legitimacy of tobacco control activists and the arrogance of dismissing consumers' insights.
Consumers are the stakeholders with the greatest stake.
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“Teen Vaping Is Falling in Pennsylvania...so why does the state still say it is skyrocketing” < Because tobacco controllers can’t stop lying? Via @RogerBate3 rogerbate.substack.com/p/tee…
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So, @AshOrgUK advocates debranding vapes and pouches and implementing plain packaging like cigarette packs. But then objects when someone suggests they’d look more like cigarette packs. Got that? 🤪
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“They want views on the colour of a device and the layout of a counter before they have finished the studies that are supposed to tell them whether those rules will even work. That is consulting first and evidencing later” <- Idiocracy is what it is. asiantrader.biz/we-vape-conc…
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The irony of this being reported at Bloomberg is as stunning as it is comical. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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A fantastic example of both the stupidity prevalent in #ClownCountry at the moment and the routine dishonesty of the global tobacco control grift. @Mark_Butler_MP receives an award for "the remarkable success of Australia's tobacco control policy". 🤣😜 2gb.com/sick-joke-health-min…
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"Turkey, India and Vietnam are good places to sell cigarettes because they have banned the alternatives."
@MikeBloomberg's gift to Big Tobacco, via @MarcGunther marcgunther.substack.com/p/m…
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“The only two countries that have lower smoking rates than New Zealand have oral nicotine pouches. So logic says there has to be some merit in allowing a less harmful product to be available” <- Sadly, too complicated for tobacco controllers to understand. stuff.co.nz/health/361034056…
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"It would be wrong of us to distribute these products, knowing when history recants what role we had in this, our name would be in the story" <- Yes, history will record you as the morons who put ideology above helping people quit smoking. stuff.co.nz/health/361033542…
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"It scarcely matters who funds these organizations. Their arguments should stand or fall on their merits—and this one is worthy of ridicule." <- More criticism from @RogerBate3 of the malevolent pro-smoking activists at @PartnershipFree rogerbate.substack.com/p/eur…
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“nicotine content levels and delivery methods vary across products, and that different nicotine products may therefore have differentiated risk profiles” <- Ya don't say! Perhaps someone should tell @OliverVarhelyi so he can stop making an embarrassment of himself.
🇪🇺Breaking🇪🇺 For the first time in this file, the European Parliament has put in writing that different nicotine products carry different risk profiles.
worldvapersalliance.com/the-…
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Do read this @Clive_Bates substack about how a heavily financially-conflicted organisation, @PartnershipFree, is quite happy to throw lives under the bus in Europe. @CRUK_Policy, @AshOrgUK and @ASHScotland, you are complicit in this. How do you sleep? clivebates.substack.com/p/ki…
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Quite rightly, the @NNAlliance consumer association has a bone to pick with @AshOrgUK which said that consumers taking part in a public consultation risked "skewing" the responses. The brass neck of these so-called 'public health' professional lobbyists is astounding!
🚨New article at the NNA website.
It is not “industry mobilisation” when consumer groups respond to public consultations. Smokers and vapers have a right to be heard. 🗣️
Consumers are stakeholders too. nnalliance.org/nnanews/news/…
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The answer to the question is yes. For a start, the UK government ignored its OWN public health agency which found vapes to be at least 95% less harmful than smoking. Instead they went with an anonymously-authored Canadian report that was never published. questions-statements.parliam…
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"However much the public dislikes the legal tobacco business, they may discover at their peril that they dislike the illegal tobacco business even more." Via @jacobgrier at @liberalismorg liberalism.org/p/when-tobacc…
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"After the 2040 ban, possession or purchase of tobacco [and nicotine] products would be subject to fines ranging from 50,000 to 250,000 liras." <- Turkey is the latest country to declare it doesn't want you holidaying there. en.royanews.tv/news/73656/T%…
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The male smoking rate in Germany is 28% but the Bloomberg-funded geniuses at @PartnershipFree are more concerned with ensuring nicotine pouches are banned. #KeepSmokingWeNeedTheMoney smokefreepartnership.eu/news…
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"If we want Americans to trust “the science” it is unproductive for elected officials to pressure agencies into reversing scientific findings based on politics rather than data."<- Anti-nicotine blowhards have nothing but smears and lies. Via @washexaminer washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
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Always the same result, but dumb politicians still carry on doing it. A lesson there for @YvetteCooperMP ... not that it'll be considered, I expect.
After flavor bans in Canada took effect cigarette sales went up — about 9.6% higher in provinces with flavor bans, and possibly as much as 21.5% under a different statistical method.
farsalinos.github.io/en/scie…
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"It will also make the idea of buying black-market juice and devices from dodgy shops or online marketplaces much more attractive than it previously would have been." Indeed. Via @VersedVaper #NotAboutHealth versedvaper.com/vaping-produ…
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