You've never seen human anatomy like this before.
Using a particle accelerator, the Human Organ Atlas is producing 3D scans of our organs in unprecedented detail! You can look through different layers of tissue and even zoom in on the cells for the heart, lungs, eyes, kidneys, and more.
"The public health benefits from reducing ECIG sales via flavor restrictions may be offset by the public health costs of consequent increases in cigarette consumption."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42004573/
🧪 🧪 Municipal water fluoridation, adolescent IQ, and cognition across the life course: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study -- "we find no evidence that community water fluoridation is negatively associated with adolescent IQ or adult cognitive functioning."
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Bald eagle flying
American kestrel sitting on a branch.
Lots of daffodils.
Field of pink flowers in front of a hilly wood.
Nature in central Pennsylvania.
Blessed be the Fruit Loops.
So in USA in 2025, 3.8% of high school students used tobacco/nicotine products frequently (20+ days out of the last 30 days). Almost all of this was e-cigs (3.1%). Cigarettes were at 0.3% !! Nicotine pouches at 0.6%. Wow!! Lets help the 30+ million adult smokers to quit. tobaccocrst.org/data-briefs
Bald eagle leaving the nest above Swatara Creek in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
Vapes acting as a "gateway" to smoking for young people is a persistent claim, writes Martin Cullip. "But the gap between the claim and observable reality keeps growing wider."
The new US National Youth Tobacco Survey is a case in point:
Osprey on Milton Hershey School grounds in Hershey.
As we rightly celebrate that adult cigarette smoking prevalence fell below 10% in 2024 in the NHIS survey...covering the non-institutionalized civilian population (>96% of adults aged 18+), it is worth pointing out that it has hardly budged at all among those >64. evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
As tobacco regulatory science has expanded to include research studies without a cessation component, understanding participation drivers is very important. Our findings indicate that monetary compensation plays a significant role. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
"The decline in cigarette smoking from 10.8% in 2023 to 9.9% in 2024 marked the first time that prevalence of cigarette smoking among U.S. adults reached single digits." evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Red-tailed hawk by the road on my drive to work in Hershey, and a bald eagle flying near Conowingo Dam.
In US high school students, past 30 day use of E-cigs is down from 27.5% in 2019 to 7.1% in 2025. 30D use of cigarettes is down from 5.8% (2019) to 1.8%. The % of US youth who have used any nicotine product in the past 30D is the lowest it has been since records began! (NYTS).
Snow-geese taking a peek at Messi scoring for Miami against DC United in front of 72,000 (humans) at M&T bank stadium in Baltimore this past weekend.
Ha, thanks Crissy.
Snow geese migration at Middle Creek PA
The snow geese migration is heating up in Central Pennsylvania.
"The simplest way of putting it is that cigarette smoke contains over 7,000 toxic chemicals that are absorbed by your body with each puff. Non-smoked nicotine products or not harmless, but they deliver far fewer chemicals" www.forsmarsh.com/mediap/what-...
"Owing to its efficacy, tolerability profile, and low cost, cytisine represents a valuable addition to the smoking cessation toolkit. However, this milestone came over half a century after an initial large-scale RCT demonstrated its efficacy. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Could you show the figures for current smoking and vaping. "Ever smoking etc" is on odd metric to focus on, as one cannot tell whether it mainly happened 5 years ago or yesterday.
Sanibel, Florida.
Oh YES!
Yes it does!
📈TrumpRx price for acid reflux drug Protonix💊= $200, with no generic options offered. Generic version of this common acid reflux pantoprazole drug at Walmart and Safeway= just $10-12. Price inflation => 18x. Don’t fall for the scam.
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the inclusion of cytisine in its Model List of Essential Medicines. Owing to its efficacy, tolerability profile, and low cost, cytisine represents a valuable addition to the smoking cessation toolkit. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
Fascinating presentation on generational shifts in nicotine use in England, from Professor Sarah Jackson of University College London. vimeo.com/showcase/120...
The moon over Annville PA last night.
They have made clear that it was never just about illegal immigration: they hate all immigrants.
