Smoking/tobacco harm reduction advocate. WNL co-host. ASU Alumni '97 🌹 Not humorless. Personal account. I'd prefer to make the world a better place, and you?
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Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
How big a problem are illicit tobacco and vapes in 🇦🇺? Really big.
Last year, Australians spent up to $8 billion on illicit nicotine. That's more than on cannabis, cocaine, esctasy and heroin combined.
Find out more in my Ever Wondered video with @Deakin
deakin.edu.au/study-research…
🤖 Made with AI
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
A report by the independent criminal justice research agency, Bureau Beke, titled Donkere wolken ("Dark Clouds") found that 87% of Dutch vapers now source products through illegal channels. Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans publicly expressed shock at these figures.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
*With feeling:
ALT For stop smoking Services, the message is to offer a vape to everyone who smokes. Counseling shouldn't be a condition of getting one.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
The public health miracle is happening in the US too, despite the best efforts of the tobacco control industry to protect cigarettes from competition. wbiw.com/2026/10/26/vaping-i…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Bigly recommend hitting episode 3 of this up and coming podcast, Beyond the Breakthrough.
Twitter-resistor @mbsiegel dropping knowledge.
And stay through the end where he answers the $64K question.
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ALT Screenshot from episode
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
I am more than a little concerned that recent events have made it necessary to revisit @Clive_Bates' Substack, "The Worst Idea in the History of Tobacco Control".
Please continue reading below.
clivebates.substack.com/p/th…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
The same anti-vaping arguments are now surfacing in testimony about nicotine pouches, says Laura Leigh Oyler. She warns national messaging can shape local policy. Source: youtu.be/3M-05qpX70w
#NicotinePolicy #PublicPolicy
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
I've decided it's a cozy night and high time to watch #TheShining again.
I have to admit, I'm a bit envious of having such a nice place to write for 5 months!
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Wow. We hear the same story (with our relatives who have died or get sick from cigarette smoking) and come to the opposite conclusion. We conclude that THR saves lives. Both perspectives have the suffering in common.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Note that this review is very cautious in estimating the toxicant exposure reductions when switching from cigarettes to e-cigs. e.g. E-cigs emit no CO. Never smokers often have an exhaled CO=2ppm. Smokers often have a CO level of 16ppm. So a reduction to 2ppm should be 100%. But here it is estimated as only 87.5% reduction, not accounting for background/endogenous levels. Despite this cautious approach, the study demonstrates large reductions in a wide range of toxicants when switching from cigarettes to e-cigs.
A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in Archives of Toxicology, covering 60 studies, found substantial reductions in exposure to #harmful #chemicals among #smokers who switched completely to e-cigarettes.
link.springer.com/article/10…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
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Prof. Hayden McRobbie:
"Not everyone who wants to quit smoking is able or willing to attend regular counselling sessions, and our results show that they can still benefit from simply being offered an e-cigarette."
eurekalert.org/news-releases…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
I was honored to appear on one of the first episodes of this new podcast that is trying to break through the misinformation about health issues:
youtube.com/watch?v=IuSlRCSx…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
A piece worth reading the Google Translate version of.
Sweden is not a magical land where society as a whole recognizes tobacco harm reduction.
False objectivity about snus and smoking on Sveriges Radio
"NMI therefore asked Daniel Öhman why he did not present the research that concludes that snus may be important for smoking cessation, but he does not want to elaborate on his answer"
In English: naringslivets--medieinstitut…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
It’s almost if the restrictive laws are the point of “tobacco control”, not the public health outcomes and certainly not the distraction of unintended consequences, which are the main consequences.
"We find no evidence that these laws reduce overall youth ENDS use, frequent use, initiation, or cig smoking. These null results are consistent with online purchasing accounting for a small share of youth ENDS acquisition even prior to policy adoption."
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It's 'buck naked'
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’
-It’s ‘toe the line'
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
"When avoidable delays in reviewing cigarette alternatives prolong smoking, they cost lives."
"The Public Health Cost of FDA’s Tobacco Review Delays"
Commentary by Jeffrey Smith via @RSI.
rstreet.org/commentary/the-p…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
The American Cancer Society’s obsession with big tobacco is literally killing people.
Since 2021, the @FDA has authorized 65 new flavored tobacco products—including e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches that appeal to kids.
That’s 65 times @FDATobacco has put Big Tobacco’s profits ahead of protecting kids. We’re keeping score.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Nothing new under the sun.
Just another run-of-the-mill tobacco war arson.
"Manhunt after suspicious fire tears through grocery store in Deer Park
The fire destroyed the grocery store, which is located next to a shop recently shut amid a crackdown on illegal tobacco."
news.com.au/national/victori…
Cc @LivePippas @Bludn_Gore
Not sure what to make of this.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
My father died of COPD after smoking two packs a day for most of his life.
When the @WHO finally accepts the fact that #SaferNicotine vapes don't cause COPD, how will it explain the fact that it convinced 42 countries (34% of the world's population) to ban those?
mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/4/4356…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
