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Joe Gitchell

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Consult to Juul Labs on nicotine vapor for tobacco harm minimization.

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Oct 4

Definitely not my happiest hour and perhaps an odd first post to Bluesky, yet here we are.

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Authors file complaint with publisher as journal retracts vaping paper

A paper that found smoking rates in the United States fell faster than expected as more people started using e-cigarettes has been retracted over the objections of its authors, who have filed a com…

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 14m

Getting my Kuhn & Piaget on, this makes sense to me to understand the profound and persistent polarization in the field.

We need a way to get less wrong, together.

Grapefruit for #VaporLock?

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 10h

#ScreamTest / #CheerTest serves as the paradigm / schema / heuristic for many in the field of nicotine and tobacco research, and the continuum of risk cannot be assimilated.

#VaporLock

a red grand cherokee is parked on the side of a road

Alt: a red grand cherokee is parked on the side of a road

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 10h

#ScreamTest / #CheerTest serves as the paradigm / schema / heuristic for many in the field of nicotine and tobacco research, and the continuum of risk cannot be assimilated.

#VaporLock

a red grand cherokee is parked on the side of a road

Alt: a red grand cherokee is parked on the side of a road

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 20h

#ActualWinning

Go go go, @nabarund.bsky.social !

Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 2d

My friend and colleague @nabarund.bsky.social !!!! www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent discussion from David Sweanor on choice between trying to eradicate tobacco or more practical option of substantially reducing harm from smoking @sanho.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social
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The opposition to tackling cigarette smoking

David T. Sweanor J.D.

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Readers of @ntrjournal.bsky.social may find this #PubPeer post from @clivebates.bsky.social responding to an LtE from Profs Bero and Cohen of interest.

#CoI

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PubPeer - Letter to the Editor: The World Conference on Tobacco Contro...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Letter to the Editor: The World Conference on Tobacco Control – Mixed Perspectives and Controversies (2025)

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Bigly recommend listening to the Unlocking Behaviour Change 'cast from #JamieWest (not sure of his blewski handle) and @robertjwest.bsky.social.

Lots of info and insight, entertainingly and efficiently conveyed.

#ChickenSexing

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Unlocking Behaviour Change Podcast Episode 20: Notice the difference!

YouTube video by Unlocking Behaviour Change

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent presentation by Floe Foxon & Ray Niaura explains why claims based on cross sectional studies that vaping nicotine is Gateway to smoking severely flawed. Instead evidence supports replacement of smoking by vaping

youtu.be/Gk84qe7NsY0

@jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social

Is Vaping E-Cigarettes a Gateway to Smoking, and Does Vaping Predict Smoking?

YouTube video by Floe Foxon

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 11d

Buckle up, we have Jesus fursona discourse from an art historian.

This is what the internet does best.

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 17d

Hard co-sign.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 17d

Bear in mind that if you let the fascists sap and kill your sense of humor, they’ve won a major battle.

Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 18d

I just started listening to this 'cast.

Bigly recommend.

From the latest one, I think I finally understand assimilation vs accommodation (maybe).

Robert West @robertjwest.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just released a new episode of the Unlocking Behaviour Change podcast. This series is tackling decision-making and this episode is all about the importance of the way that decisions are 'framed' (e.g., Shall I do X or not? which of X, Y or Z shall I choose?) www.podbean.com/ep/pb-rdhpx-...

Understanding decision ‘framing’: asking the right question

Where’s the best place to go on holiday? What should I do with my life? Why is the way we frame decisions so vital? In this episode, we continue unpacking the FACET framework, focusing on F: Frame. We...

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conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 20d

Will the new book from @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social increase our #FoodIntelligence? Only if we get it and digest it. Having given it a read, we recommend it.
conscienhealth.org/2025/09/get-...

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 24d

Mazel, Claire!! So awesome!!

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 25d

I am humbled by how kind @skipscorner.bsky.social is in her account of our interactions, and I will continue to try to be worth her friendship.

#UsNotThem

Skip Murray @skipscorner.bsky.social · 25d

2025 Tobacco Science Research Conference (TSRC)
skipscorner.substack.com/p/2025-tsrc
"I learned that first I must plant the seeds, which will grow the trees, that will supply the lumber, to build the bridges."
H/T @jgitchell.bsky.social

2025 - TSRC

Tobacco Science Research Conference

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 25d

#StayCurious

Floe Foxon @floefoxon.bsky.social · 26d

Is #vaping e-cigarettes a gateway to smoking 🚬? My presentation at the 2025 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - Europe conference #SRNTE2025 is now available online: youtu.be/Gk84qe7NsY0

Is Vaping E-Cigarettes a Gateway to Smoking?

YouTube video by Floe Foxon

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Sep 11

Such an opportunity to #MakeNewMistakes.

Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Sep 10

Paging @raygunsite.com.

Could involve the Uncle Sam I Want You look, no?

Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Sep 10

Your analysis does NOT warm my heart cockles, Alex, but I have to concede that you kind of hit the 🎯 there.

Not unlike the line from #SpinalTap: "If I told them once, I told them a thousand times: Spinal Tap first, then Puppet Show."

Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Big @alicedreger.bsky.social #GMF Energy.

Para starting "The problem here is an old one" from Dreger's GMF p. 176

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Sep 1

"act"

😁

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · Aug 31

One way you can use your privilege for good as a millennial white lady is to be willing to embarrass yourself for the greater good.

For example, act like a ridiculous yappy tourist in front of cops who are surveilling homeless outreach.

(Hi APD! I see you! We all do! You aren’t slick!)

Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Aug 28

It is really hard to do, I'm finding, but I'm trying.

We do NOT have a replication crisis in effing up!

a man with glasses and a beard has the words we 're not making the same mistakes again below him

Alt: a man with glasses and a beard has the words we 're not making the same mistakes again below him I think that this is from a JPark movie. Gulp. #FrogDNA

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Aug 28

#MakeNewMistakes

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · Aug 28

The right has been not-subtly gearing up to go after Rx stimulants for some time now, so as a researcher of drug use and overdose prevention, allow me to assure you that taking away Rx stimulants from people who need them will EXPLODE the unregulated stimulant market.

Aka people will go to meth.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 28

Karoline Leavitt on the Minnesota shooting: "The HHS secretary said this morning that HHS is investigating perhaps links between some of these prescription drugs some of these minors might be taking and an increase in violence."

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Aug 27

Good thing dread is endlessly available.

Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Aug 27

#ButtSnorkeling is a term I don't know that I want, but it is a term that I need.

H/T @thebulwark.com.

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · Aug 25

Did you know smoking more than doubles risk of blindness & especially increases risk of a type of age-related macular degeneration? @jgitchell.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social
@chancethegardener.bsky.social

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Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · Aug 20

While I devote a lot of energy to #RejectTheBinary, I'm with @clairezagorski.bsky.social on this narrow point.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · Aug 20

you can either be elite paragons of manly man masculine protector badassery OR you can be so afraid of just existing in DC that you call in the national guard but you can’t be both

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