FSFW Statement:
Responding to an article in Tobacco Control, Derek Yach calls for "open science and respectful debate – not boycotts and bans.” Read more
FDA Moves to Ban Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars:
We applaud the FDA’s proposal to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The decision to keep menthol harm reduction products on the market is sound policy and will give users the option to switch to lower-risk alternatives. Read more
Bringing Everyone to the Tobacco Table:
Derek Yach explores themes in Bill Novelli’s recently released book, Good Business: The Talk, Fight Win Way to Change the World. Bill’s professional journey holds clues for how tobacco control efforts could be more inclusive of all viewpoints. Read more
Complements ongoing tobacco control efforts to accelerate quitting and switching to tobacco harm reduction products while understanding the individual smoker
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Aims to diversify tobacco-dependent economies, ensuring that smallholder farmers impacted by the declining demand for tobacco are supported to find sustainable alternative livelihoods
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Focuses on delivering change across the entire global tobacco industry and nicotine ecosystem
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Smoking is the world’s leading cause of preventable death
There are 8 million smoking-related deaths annually, killing more people than hiv/aids, malaria & tuberculosis combined.2
1. World Health Organization Tobacco Fact Sheet, 2020
2. World Health Organization. WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2019
3. Banks E, et al. Tobacco smoking and cause mortality in a large Australian Cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence. BMC MED, 2015
The @FDATobacco's decision to ban #menthol cigarettes is a good start, but not enough. @JamesKGlassman1 believes we can accelerate an end to combustible cigarettes by countering disinformation & providing incentives to switch to harm reduced alternatives. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4972316001
Will the Biden-Harris administration’s embrace of #harmreduction extend to tobacco? Derek Yach (@swimdaily) believes recent policy choices bode well for #tobaccoharmreduction and represent an important step toward ending the smoking epidemic.
https://medium.com/@Dr.DerekYach/biden-harris-drug-policy-priorities-could-lead-to-focus-on-tobacco-harm-reduction-b96c24ae9cd3
https://filtermag.org/evali-misinformation-increased-smoking/ The implications of @Alex_Norcia @Filtermag_org @mbsiegel comments are clear. #Disinformation (Deliberately spread false info) increases adult smoking & will kill people. @FDATobacco & @CDC need to aggressively oppose falsehoods. @SmokeFreeFdn @GregTHR
.@Doctor_Sud was interviewed by @snusforum about the consequences of rampant nicotine misinformation. @Doctor_Sud says, “One of the most common nicotine misconceptions is that nicotine, in quantities consumed in cigarettes or pouches, is carcinogenic.”
Following up on my recently co-authored #OpenScience @qeios pre-print with Dr Fagerström, here is an interview discussing the prevalent nicotine illiteracy that is preventing the realisation of a world free from risky forms of tobacco.
@GlobalStateTHR
https://snusforumet.se/en/nicotine-misconceptions-sudhanshu-patwardhan-on-causes-consequences-and-potential-cures/
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