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alexwodak.bsky.social
Fancy truth emerging at #FCTCCOP11 despite all efforts to just have anti tobacco harm reduction! Yes NZ smoking rates plummeted after vaping regulated 2020. Also other countries with high rates use of low risk nicotine options @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
algore09algor.bsky.social Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 12d
@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social

🇳🇿 New Zealand delegation tells #FCTCCOP11
"Since 2019 smoking rates have declined more rapidly in association with implementation of tobacco harm reduction measures, particularly regulated access to vaping products."

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Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties
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November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
But who still thinks tobacco control is about achieving critically important public health outcomes? No, it’s now all about demonstrating extreme loyalty to party line! Just like in days of USSR! Long live Chairman Tedros!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Tobacco control hate low-risk vapes much more than they hate deadly cigarettes. But smokers love vapes so demand strong even when supply vy restricted so market outsourced to organised crime. Explain to me again why that’s such good idea @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Very helpful analysis. Smokers & traded tobacco companies are already switching quite rapidly from high to low risk nicotine options despite strong headwinds of massive misinformation & government indifference/hostility. @chancethegardener.bsky.social
jgitchell.bsky.social Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 20d
I created my first Substack post, based on my opening remarks at the #FDLI Tobacco and Nicotine Product Conference on 28-29 Oct.

Please read and help me get less wrong.

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Setting goals for nicotine regulation and policy
Using Regulatory Stances to move forward
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November 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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chancethegardener.bsky.social
I met Mark just a few weeks ago in Manhattan. I have known Peter and Derek for nearly two decades. These are good people, commited to saving lives. Their views are evidence-based and should NOT be controversial.
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
And if you think today is Thursday & Big Tobacco also thinks today is Thursday then you just have to be a shill for Big Tobacco! No question!
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chancethegardener.bsky.social Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 17d
Church of Tobacco Control believes in irredeemable evil. Big Tobacco was evil decades ago, so it's evil today.

Meanwhile, they buy clothes from Hugo Boss which made uniforms for NAZIs, and buy aspirin from Bayer, formerly I.G. Farben, which made zyklon b, the poison gas used in NAZI death camps.
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Do tobacco harm reduction opponents really believe nonsense they sprout or do they realise it’s all crap & just fake believing it? Which is worse? Got to be one or the other! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
wimpson69.bsky.social Wimpson69 @wimpson69.bsky.social · 17d
I am in the midst of this as a HR practitioner. After 25 years in this role I am dismayed by the current rhetoric and dehumanisation of people accessing HR services.
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Peter Singer interviews Derek Yach & Mark Tyndall about tobacco harm reduction which could reduce smoking related deaths globally from 7-8 down to ~4-5 million/year
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Tobacco Harm Reduction — with Derek Yach and Mark Tyndall
Can we overcome ideology to save 100 million lives?
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November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Love how Oz Cancer Council so anti tobacco companies but very happy to accept annual generous donations from Australia’s #1 cigarette retailers-Coles & Woolworths! So anti world’s most popular & most effective quit smoking aid - nicotine vapes! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Thank you Prof Tikki Pang for being so clear about bankruptcy of anti Tobacco Harm Reduction cult. It has to collapse & it will @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
gfn.events Global Forum on Nicotine @gfn.events · 20d
What's the REAL WHO’s Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction?
The WHO says it supports public health — but where does it really stand on vaping and harm reduction? 🤔They keep saying we “need more research” — but the evidence is already clear.
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Australia’s legal cig market has decreased by 2/3, from about 11 billion cigarettes sold in 2022 to 3.5 billion by end of 2025. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

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‘The crisis we’re in’: Australia’s tobacco underbelly dwarfs legal market
Astonishing new figures have revealed the scale of Australia’s tobacco underbelly, which will dwarf the legal market after doubling in volume in just three years.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Sale of illegal cigarettes in Australia doubled since 2022, from 3.1 billion to a whopping 6.6 billion by end 2025. Not sustainable!! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social

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Major tobacco company blames Albanese govt’s excise for black market boom
British American Tobacco Australia (BATA) has blamed the Albanese government’s enormous excise for the unprecedented surge in black market business and multi-billion-dollar revenue losses.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Hey Simon, Becky, Cancer Council, @publichealthaus.bsky.social How’s sky high cigarette taxes & vape denialism workin’ for ya? @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australia's $4 billion illicit tobacco trade fuels a violent criminal market
Authorities stress the $4 billion figure is conservative, as it does not include illegal vapes and e-cigarettes.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Also .. press for cig taxes keep on being increased forever & governments agree. Then smokers switch to now buy from flourishing black market & taxpayers lose billions! Organised crime laughing! Well done zealots! #auspol @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Meanwhile 16-19 year old Norwegian men daily smoking heading for extinction after being replaced by daily snus use. It’s called ‘tobacco harm reduction’ & abstinence cultists hate it! #Substitution @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Many countries where smoke-free nicotine options now rapidly replacing deadly cigarettes-despite misinformation tsunami & govt indifference/hostility. Iceland is another country rapidly switching from high to low risk @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Smoking cigarettes daily almost extinct in Norwegian women aged 16-19 thanks to substitution by safer, smoke-free nicotine products. That’s one big step for tobacco harm reduction. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Policy on nicotine vapes & other low risk options now impervious to ever increasing quantity & quality of scientific evidence or even severe unintended negative consequences of failure. But policy heading inevitably for collapse sooner or later @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
For 1st time, more Great Britain adults use vapes >smoke cigarettes. 5.4 million >16 years vaped daily/occasionally in 2024 vs 4.9 million smoke. ie 10% of population vape vs 9.1% smoke—a figure that’s down from 10.5% in 2023 @ianamossyd.bsky.social

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November 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
1/2 Japan Tobacco Q3’25 results: Total 🇯🇵cig sales ⬇️another 6.5% vs Q3’24. Overall unit sales heated tobacco products ⬆️by as much as cig sales ⬇️. HTPs now estimated 46.1% of domestic market.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
2/2 Both 🇯🇵 &🇺🇸 on verge of smoke-free products outselling cigs: transformation despite policy & information environment discouraging it.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Inevitability of safer, smoke-free nicotine options soon completely replacing cigarettes @publichealthaus.bsky.social @profglantz.com @drbfreeman.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Vaping: A disruptive innovation of smoking and rapidly replacing cigarettes
Recognised as a concept over three decades ago, disruptive innovations are new and improved ways of meeting consumers’ needs that generally sweep away conventional approaches of market-leading firms b...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Greatest achievement of vape opponents been to persuade many vaping is as, or even more dangerous than smoking when globally 8 million smoker deaths/year & no scientifically attributed vaping deaths. Propaganda works @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social
ourworldindata.org Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26d
A decade ago, the most frequent opinion among smokers was that vaping was less harmful than tobacco. But ten years on, the opposite is true: over a third say that vapes are just as or even more dangerous. You can see this shift in the chart.

The scientific evidence is clear that this is incorrect.
Two bar charts comparing perceptions of the harm caused by vaping versus cigarettes among smokers in England for the years April 2015 and April 2025. The title is "Most smokers in England now think that vaping is more harmful than cigarettes — but the opposite is true". While vaping is not risk-free, experts consider it to be much less harmful to health than tobacco. In April 2015, the data shows that: - 35% of respondents believed vaping was less harmful than tobacco. - 35% thought it was equally harmful. - 14% considered vaping to be more harmful. - 16% were unsure. By April 2025, the perception had shifted significantly: - 12% believed vaping was less harmful. - 35% thought it was equally harmful. - 38% now viewed vaping as more harmful, making this group the largest. - 15% remained unsure. This is based on a survey of 27,000 current smokers. The data source is identified as "Smoking in England (2025)." The chart is attributed to "Our World in Data" with a CC BY license.
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Sydney Morning Herald prints anti vape propaganda yet again! No wonder many now believe vapes as dangerous or even more so than cigarettes! Complete utter bollocks! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/national/for...
Formaldehyde and antifreeze: What’s inside one of the most popular illegal vapes in Australia
Alibarbar, one of the most popular vape brands in Australia, despite being illegal, has potentially dangerous levels of nicotine and toxic contaminants.
www.smh.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Sad to see @drbfreeman.bsky.social & Simon Chapman descending to this level. Surely by now they must have realised they’ve chosen wrong side & are defending the indefensible. Vapes much safer than smoking & help many smokers quit. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM