CAPHRA_warns_Australian_Senate-prohibition_has_failed_regulation_is_the_only_way_forward.docx 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...

@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

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

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

When smokers switch to e-cigarettes What happens when smokers switch to e-cigarettes? Peer-reviewed studies covering (1) cancer, (2) cardiovascular and (3) lung health. NOTE…

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."

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.

Study linking vaping to stroke retracted over “major errors” in analysis 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…

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...

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?

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

Trump supporters and insecure men more likely to value a large penis, according to new research 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...

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."

www.psypost.org/trump-suppor... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

From study: "...driven by insecurity regarding fulfilling the masculine role."

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...

US secretly sought intel on Greenland military sites-Berlingske Greenland has become the clearest test yet of whether NATO will survive in its current form when the danger comes from inside, because Trump’s renewed threat of stealing allied territory should not be...

open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut... @olgalautman.bsky.social

How has misinformation shaped Asia-Pacific tobacco control?
Misinformation can drive symbolic regulation—policies that look “tough” but displace markets into illicit channels, eroding regulatory control and increasing youth exposure risk. #Misinformation #Regulation caphraorg.net/wp-content/p...

Singapore’s Vape Crackdown - Prohibition, Punishment, and Moral Panic Singapore is being held up as a model for the future of tobacco and drug control.

Excellent blog. Singapore is viewed as a "model" by WHO. Beating ppl, caning, deportation for act of quitting smoking, with safer #nicotine alts. Human torture is A-OK according to WHO!! substack.com/home/post/p-... the price of Prohibition, Punishment & Moral Panic - leads to harm!

Smoking Should Not Be a Footnote in Cervical Cancer Prevention - Filter Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women. In 2022, there were an estimated 660,000 diagnoses and about ...

"Prevention is where we still have a chance to spare other families the moment I lived through."

It's concerning, then, writes @skipscorner.bsky.social, that tobacco gets just two brief mentions in the WHO report on eliminating cervical cancer:

Kind of funny example of AI infecting everything: opening up my next book manuscript in Adobe to do line-by-line revisions, first suggestion is "Save time with a document summary". Nope, sorry, sometimes you have to actually do things to make them worthwhile.

thefirebreak.org/p/philanthro-capitalism-and-the-death Great article
. Philanthropists are no longer using their billions 2 make the world a better place by alleviating poverty, lifting up the less advantaged & promoting research solutions, but to impose an imbalanced influence on political issues.

Fentanyl, Involved in My Son’s Death, Is No “Weapon of Mass Destruction” - Filter In December, the federal government announced it would classify illicit fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction.” Having buried my ...

My brother died from a fentanyl overdose and its no weapon of mass destruction filtermag.org/fentanyl-wea... @filtermag.bsky.social

Smoking Should Not Be a Footnote in Cervical Cancer Prevention - Filter Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women. In 2022, there were an estimated 660,000 diagnoses and about ...

filtermag.org/smoking-cerv... @filtermag.bsky.social @skipscorner.bsky.social

a little boy is sitting on the ground in a field of bamboo sticks . Alt: Scene from Tropic Thunder where young boy crosses his arms with disappointment at being abandoned by Tugg Speedman.

I would love the opportunity to get less wrong on this important topic but my disclosures prevent me from registering.

Philanthro-Capitalism and the Quiet Capture of Global Health How foundations shape WHO policy without democratic accountability

Philanthro-Capitalism and the Quiet Capture of Global Health
How foundations shape WHO policy without democratic accountability. substack.com/home/post/p-... A system controlled by billionaires with agendas; on power trips. Worth the read.

Vietnam to impose fines for e-cigarette use and possession Vietnam has issued new penalties for e-cigarette users and those who accommodate them, with fines reaching up to $800.

vietnamnet.vn/en/vietnam-t... Vietnam marks cigarettes as safe. 🤔Vietnam has issued new penalties for e-cigarette users and those who accommodate them, with fines reaching up to $800. #KeepSmokingTheyNeedYourMoney #RegulateNotBan #ProhibitionNeverWorks Misinformation keeps adults smoking - 🪦

E-cigarettes, emerging tobacco products fully banned in Bangladesh E-cigarettes, vapes and other emerging tobacco products have been completely banned in Bangladesh as the Smoking and Tobacco Products Use Control (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 has come into effect with ...

Congrats to the tobacco control industry in Bangladesh, which has banned "production, import, export, storage, sale and use" of e-cigarettes, heated tobacco & #nicotine pouches.

The male smoking rate in Bangladesh is 33% #KeepSmokingTheyNeedYourMoney www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/4...

Vapers Digest 5th January Monday's News at a glance: The Passing of A Legend ~ Michael McFadden RIP ~ The Mosaic and the Non‑Accidental Convergence ~ Are Nicotine Pouches a Safer Alternative to Cigarettes? ~ Can Nicotine Pouch...

Vapers Digest Monday Jan. 05. 2026. vapers.org.uk/vapers-diges...

A great Substack written by Ivan. WHO wants AI SARAH to push its narrative on #nicotine. AI should have the power to view all sides, not 1 narrative. Dogma has consequences that cost lives. ivangaraythr.substack.com/p/when-publi...

Fentanyl, Involved in My Son’s Death, Is No “Weapon of Mass Destruction” - Filter In December, the federal government announced it would classify illicit fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction.” Having buried my ...

"My son was not an enemy combatant, nor a victim of war waged by foreign adversaries," writes Susan Ousterman.

"When fentanyl is framed as a weapon of war, the policy response shifts toward fear, instead of interventions that keep people alive."

Meanwhile Cancer Council & @markbutlermp.bsky.social ignore huge contribution of vaping to accelerated recent decline of smoking in young Australians by replacing deadly cigarettes with much safer smoke free nicotine! @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @edjegasothy.bsky.social

Increasing number traded tobacco companies, like Altria, hauled up white flag & now race to transform from cigarettes to low risk, smoke free nicotine products. But tobacco control zealots doing darndest to stop them! Rocks in their heads! @chancethegardener.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

UNSW study is vaping effective as quit smoking aid in disadvantaged: verified 6-month continuous abstinence rate 9.6% (50 of 523) in NRT group & 28.4% (148 of 522) in VNP group (… >99% posterior probability VNP is superior)
@m1ngthemerciless.bsky.social @caphra.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social

I’ll tell you what’s amazing! That people are still amazed when even more new evidence comes out confirming that vaping is an effective tool to help smokers quit smoking! Vaping nicotine is a form of harmed reduction and we know that harm reduction really works! @ianamossyd.bsky.social

@alexwodak.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social
@melissasweetdr.bsky.social

This is not public health, it’s damage control!!

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