Business owner for 26 years, cricket lover, kebab eater, wine drinker, vaper, former Lucozade customer, Fellow at @Protectaxpayers, unrepentant hedonist
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Every single piece of research into vaping flavour bans shows that they increase youth smoking ... so Ireland's politicians are going to implement a vaping flavour ban. No further comment required. #Idiots clearingtheair.eu/en/post/ir…
Via @vapeclub, your regular reminder that the state is not your friend, doesn't know what it is doing, and hates you, even if you quit smoking using an age-gated website. vapeclub.co.uk/how-to-vape-g…
"Increased use of smokeless tobacco after 2017 in Japan was associated with a trend of decreasing hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome" <- More evidence for tobacco control lobbyists to ignore. vietnam.vn/en/san-pham-khong…
The public health miracle is happening in the US too, despite the best efforts of the tobacco control industry to protect cigarettes from competition. wbiw.com/2026/10/26/vaping-i…
Martin C retweeted
It’s almost if the restrictive laws are the point of “tobacco control”, not the public health outcomes and certainly not the distraction of unintended consequences, which are the main consequences.
"We find no evidence that these laws reduce overall youth ENDS use, frequent use, initiation, or cig smoking. These null results are consistent with online purchasing accounting for a small share of youth ENDS acquisition even prior to policy adoption."
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
"The link between tax rates and illicit activity is not clear-cut" - I didn't realise the Financial Times had a jokes section. ft.com/content/e41fe456-48c8…
Only 10% of smokers correctly believe vaping to be less harmful than smoking. A damning indictment of the UK tobacco control industry's abject failure. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/sm…
1,180 cigarettes, which can cause cancer, have been authorised by the FDA since January 2021, but @ACSCAN are far more concerned about the 65 less harmful products which don't. Don't donate to such incredible #Charlatans. #WorseThanBigTobacco
The cowards and reality deniers at the American Cancer Society (@ACSNews and @ACSCAN) hid my post pointing out their misinformation and that they no longer seem to care about cancer.
Here it is again.
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You can burn your reputation, but you can't hide it.
Nice to know the UK prime minister says we are “allowed a glass of or two” of wine. Standard stuff.
On Sunday, at #battlefest, @PhilipDaviesUK said there is now a generation of MPs who think their *only* job is telling people what to do.
Labour's Secretary of State has found a way to get round the government passing inept laws then having to run a consultation which makes obvious the stupidity of policymakers promoting it ... she suggests not having consultations at all. Brilliant! 🤪 politico.eu/article/uk-louis…
Minimum alcohol pricing is going well in Scotland, I see. #Grifters heraldscotland.com/news/2666…
A handy debunking of one of the tobacco control industry's favourite lies. Talking about how harmful smoking is then seamlessly pinning the blame on nicotine. A more generous explanation than lying is that they're just ignorant. You decide. cliffdoug.substack.com/p/nic…
Wow! Look how successful Ireland's snobby approach to vaping has been. And that's *before* its recent huge increase on duty for liquids. #EpicFail Via @GlobalStateTHR gsthr.org/resources/briefing…
More junk science about vaping heavily criticised by the Science Media Centre. Sadly, @SkyNews was gullible enough to publicise this drivel. Too many researchers are the new Merchants of Doubt and acting #WorseThanBigTobacco. sciencemediacentre.org/exper…
Typical tobacco control industry sophistry. @TC_BMJ find it inconvenient that youth vaping hugely declined since 2019. So, to get round that, they compared current use with when products were new to the market and almost no-one used them. #NotAboutHealth news-medical.net/news/202610…
Martin C retweeted
The Debate is happening TODAY!!
The Seanad is going to BAN flavours and force almost 60,000 people back to cigarettes.
Is this really what the government wants??
respectvapers.ie
My @Protectaxpayers colleague, Christina Smith, writes about #Pennsylvania's daft new policy of prohibition: "Public health is best served through consumer choice and market competition, not state coercion and bureaucratic central planning." protectingtaxpayers.org/harm…
I've written a Substack about the new Merchants of Doubt in tobacco/nicotine policy. "Worse Than Big Tobacco - The Researchers Helping to Protect Cigarette Sales" martinthr.substack.com/p/wor…
A look into what is happening in tobacco control industry cloud-cuckoo land.
