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Joel

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THR Advocate🚭📢 @ThrUganda🇺🇬 || KAC THRSP Scholar 2020/21-22 || Enhanced Scholar 2023-24 || Interested in Nicotine Consumer Insights & Public Policy 🏛️

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/does-… Negative reactions to @RobertKennedyJr using a #nicotinepouch and eating a #BigMac suggest critics prefer prohibition? That undermines health gains & peoples' freedoms. (An aside: I would have preferred he drank Pepsi!)


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Youth vaping is now at a 10-year low, and yet the Biden Administration's FDA continues to decimate small businesses. Even worse, these companies sell products with lower youth usage rates than products FDA has authorized! @MartyMakary, FDA CTP is run by an activist.

The FDA dropped another list today of nine small vapor companies that recently received Marketing Denial Orders (MDOs).

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Malaysian state punishes adult vapers for all the wrong reasons. Meanwhile, cigarettes remain untouched .... #ecigarettes @Right2Vape scmp.com/week-asia/heal…


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The term popcorn lung is used by many but very few understand its origins. In this video, Kurt Yeo breaks down the concept of the Popcorn lung, and how much this is more an urban legend than reality.


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4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year. They are not biodegradable. Over time, cigarette filters break down into micro-plastics, with huge health implications for animals & humans. #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty - Let's ban cigarette filters. More: ow.ly/455G50U8fRV

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The war on drugs has provided the architecture within which racist and colonialist laws, policies and practices can operate.

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We have a new Executive Director! Harm Reduction International's Board of Trustees announced today the appointment of @shaunshelly as its new Executive Director. hri.global/news/harm-redu…


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The new @GlobalStateTHR report takes a close look at #EasternEurope & #CentralAsia. The relatively late implementation of #tobaccocontrol measures means there are high rates of #smoking & risky oral product use persists across the region. More here👇 gsthr.org/resources/thr-…


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🚭 Disposable vape bans may drive kids back to "smoking behind the bike sheds," warns MP Sir Christopher Chope. Govt impact report suggests 29% of vapers could return to cigarettes. Will the bans backfire? #VapingBan #HarmReduction clearingtheair.eu/en/post/dispos…


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Our founder Kurt Yeo recently wrote an open letter to the finance minister to reconsider vaping tax. While the article was published online, the following are 5 key points from the open letter.

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=eOhv5g… Eight years ago I delivered this TedX talk on the critical need to tackle the prevention of chronic diseases @ promotion of healthy lifestyles. Most recommendations remain valid. Hopefully a new found national commitment to prevention will gain traction.…


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THR is not just a concept; it’s a life-saving strategy. This report highlights how over 600,000 lives in Kenya 🇰🇪 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 could be saved by 2060 through safer alternatives like e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches. Let’s act now! #TobaccoHarmReduction #Kenya #Nigeria

Newly released: Saving 600,000 in Nigeria🇳🇬 and Kenya🇰🇪 reveals the transformative potential of Tobacco Harm Reduction strategies—like e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches—to save over 600,000 lives by 2060. #TobaccoHarmReduction #Kenya #Nigeria safer-alternatives.org/publications/



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"50% of people who #smoke regularly will die prematurely as a result, and we can significantly turn that around [...] by supporting them to get on a safer product," says KAC Director David MacKintosh in this month's @DDNMagazine cover story. 👏👏👏 drinkanddrugsnews.com/an-open-goal/


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“People talk about a war on #smoking, a war on #nicotine or a war on #vapes. But you don’t conduct a war against inanimate objects. This is a war against people," says Executive Editor & Lead Author of the new @GlobalStateTHR report, @Shapiroharry gsthr.org/media-centre/m…


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"The evidence from this report shows that – when safer products are appropriate, acceptable, accessible & affordable – people will switch, in fact are already switching, in their millions,” says @GerryStimson about the new @GlobalStateTHR report. gsthr.org/resources/thr-…


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"Many countries are showing significant reductions in #smoking or falls in #cigarette sales as #safernicotine product use increases, far faster than #tobaccocontrol has achieved alone," says @Shapiroharry in this @PVapes story about our new report, GSTHR4 planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-ne…


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Newly released: Saving 600,000 in Nigeria🇳🇬 and Kenya🇰🇪 reveals the transformative potential of Tobacco Harm Reduction strategies—like e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches—to save over 600,000 lives by 2060. #TobaccoHarmReduction #Kenya #Nigeria safer-alternatives.org/publications/


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Anti-smoking groups demand Minister @YaaraSaks impose a national flavour ban—or RESIGN. Health of millions could hang in the balance. @DocsVsTobacco @actiononsmoking @rights4vapers @thecvaofficial @GovCanHealth @GFNicotine x.com/RegWatchCanada…

Anti-smoking groups demand Minister @YaaraSaks impose a national flavour ban—or RESIGN. Public health or political pressure? The health of millions could hang in the balance. @DocsVsTobacco @actiononsmoking @rights4vapers @thecvaofficial @GovCanHealth @GFNicotine



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