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alexwodak.bsky.social
Opposition to tobacco harm reduction is a closed thought system impervious to evidence which contradicts their cult. USSR & satellites was another closed thought system & collapsed suddenly. That’s what will happen to THR denial. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
chancethegardener.bsky.social Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 5d
...just to point out the obvious: We who support #HarmReduction correct our colleagues when they err. We self-correct.

I have NEVER seen this happen among #HarmReduction deniers. They often say things that are demonstrably false. When this is pointed out the response is crickets. Silence.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Thoughtful considered response shreds anti vaping BMJ rant by Bloomberg staff @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Proportionate, evidence-led regulation best protects children’s rights
www.bmj.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Australian vape denialists argue enough enforcement will sort out black market for vapes & cigarettes. Really? Hasn’t worked for illicit drugs so why should it work for vapes & cigs? @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
4 charts show how vape denialists are gaslighting us all nonstop. Even worse. They’re getting away with it. For now. But they’re collapse is coming @mikedaube.bsky.social @drbfreeman.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Sadly this analysis = spot on. Opposition to safer smoke-free nicotine options is hysterical cult which perversely protects deadly cigarettes. History will be kind to harm reduction supporters but will trash cultists @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
7 countries strongly supported tobacco harm reduction at @who.int COP 11 FCTC meeting in Geneva last week but only 1 country supported THR during COP 10. @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
ABCTV 7.30 Report partisan hit job vapes 24 November as always ignored counterfactual: “what if they weren’t vaping?” Know answer to that: be smoking deadly cigarettes! Country after country where vape use ⬆️, smoking plummeted! @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
How WHO got others to do its dirty work silencing & attacking tobacco harm reduction at a recent important international meeting @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
www.thefirebreak.org/p/what-i-saw...
What I Saw at the FCTC COP11 on Tobacco Control
Inside, But Locked Out: A Report from the GoodCOP 2.0 “Conference of the People”
www.thefirebreak.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Who cares how smokers quit as long as they stop! Why can’t tobacco control just allow harm reduction to complement conventional policies? Why hostility? Why need for phoney discounted arguments? @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
chancethegardener.bsky.social Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 18d
Funny thing happened on the way to buy some death sticks: I quit smoking. And then I noticed EVERYONE had quit smoking. And it was good.

But then I saw thousands of jobless tobacco control experts tearing their hair, gnashing their teeth and lamenting: "NO! You quit the wrong way!!!"
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Like most other countries Australia refuses to learn lessons of illicit cannabis. Demand=strong. Supply=easy. Prohibition hasn’t got chance to work. Repeats same mistake with vapes & gets same result! Duh! @jamomartin.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social
hagatha42.bsky.social Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 13d
We seem to be heading in the same direction with tobacco. High taxes make black market so lucrative they are now funnelling everyday Australians into criminal justice system. Big $tick$.
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Commentary tells it like it really is: Bloomberg funded jihad against vapes & other safer, smoke free nicotine options is ideology vs evidence. Disgraceful. #Harmreduction
@aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
brownstone.org/articles/the...
The WHO’s Campaign Against Safe Nicotine ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Until FCTC is willing to grapple honestly with that fact, its gatherings will continue to be theater rather than public-health leadership.
brownstone.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Australia’s extremist anti tobacco & anti vape policy produces stupendous unintended consequences but can’t be changed for some weird reason.
“Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" Chico Marx @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social
algore09algor.bsky.social Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 11d
“Murray Watt can deny the evidence all he likes. But denial does not change reality; it just guarantees the problem gets worse.”

@alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @squigglyrick.bsky.social

www.aliveadvocacymovement.com/post/how-aus...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
2/2 @jgitchell.bsky.social @profglantz.com
@chancethegardener.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social @crikey.com.au @theracp.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social
Joe Gitchell (@jgitchell.bsky.social)
Consult to Juul Labs on nicotine vapor for tobacco harm minimization.
jgitchell.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Really hard understand some well trained researchers who still argue 2025 #vaping nicotine gateway ➡️smoking despite compelling evidence to contrary. What’s really going on here? @jgitchell.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
chancethegardener.bsky.social Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · 9d
If you believe "vaping is a gateway to smoking" you are like a flat-Earther. The real world disagrees with you.

In all these countries, among all adults, the age group with the steepest rate of smoking decline is... young adults. And teen smoking has dropped to all-time lows.
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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 · 27d
@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."

fctc.who.int/convention/c...
Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties
fctc.who.int
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!
@jgitchell.bsky.social @aliveadvocacy.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
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 · Nov 9
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.

open.substack.com/pub/joegitch...
Setting goals for nicotine regulation and policy
Using Regulatory Stances to move forward
open.substack.com
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!
@aliveadvocacy.bsky.social
@algore09algor.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social
chancethegardener.bsky.social Charles A. Gardner, PhD @chancethegardener.bsky.social · Nov 12
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 · Nov 12
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
@sanho.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jmenezes.bsky.social @ianamossyd.bsky.social
singerp.substack.com/p/tobacco-ha...
Tobacco Harm Reduction — with Derek Yach and Mark Tyndall
Can we overcome ideology to save 100 million lives?
singerp.substack.com
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 · Nov 9
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