Smoking/tobacco harm reduction advocate. WNL co-host. ASU Alumni '97 🌹 Not humorless. Personal account. I'd prefer to make the world a better place, and you?
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Tremendous progress has been made, and you love to see it.
Skip is the first representative of the general public who doesn't actually represent mainstream tobacco control.
The four previous holders of the position:
- Scout (no first name), an anti-tobacco LGBT activist.
- Pebbles Fagan, an anti-tobacco professor engaged in tobacco research (as members of the general public do).
- Sonia Duffy, an anti-tobacco nursing professor.
- Patricia Nez Henderson, an anti-tobacco Native American activist who wants to "decolonize tobacco" and feels unsafe being in the same room as the tobacco industry.
Phillip Kirschberg 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…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It's 'buck naked'
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’
-It’s ‘toe the line'
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
"When avoidable delays in reviewing cigarette alternatives prolong smoking, they cost lives."
"The Public Health Cost of FDA’s Tobacco Review Delays"
Commentary by Jeffrey Smith via @RSI.
rstreet.org/commentary/the-p…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
The American Cancer Society’s obsession with big tobacco is literally killing people.
Since 2021, the @FDA has authorized 65 new flavored tobacco products—including e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches that appeal to kids.
That’s 65 times @FDATobacco has put Big Tobacco’s profits ahead of protecting kids. We’re keeping score.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Nothing new under the sun.
Just another run-of-the-mill tobacco war arson.
"Manhunt after suspicious fire tears through grocery store in Deer Park
The fire destroyed the grocery store, which is located next to a shop recently shut amid a crackdown on illegal tobacco."
news.com.au/national/victori…
Cc @LivePippas @Bludn_Gore
Not sure what to make of this.
"The Public Health Cost of FDA’s Tobacco Review Delays"
Commentary by Jeffrey Smith via @RSI.
rstreet.org/commentary/the-p…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
My father died of COPD after smoking two packs a day for most of his life.
When the @WHO finally accepts the fact that #SaferNicotine vapes don't cause COPD, how will it explain the fact that it convinced 42 countries (34% of the world's population) to ban those?
mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/4/4356…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
NB: “Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemicals. This mix of chemicals -not nicotine- is what causes serious disease and death in tobacco users” -@FDATobacco
H/t @jkelovuori
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Oof.
ADA Admits Mistakes and Issues a Partial Apology - ConscienHealth conscienhealth.org/2026/10/2…
Jukka @jkelovuori has done the math and here are the results:
The fine people at @ACSCAN should refrain from tweeting. Period. End of.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
When circumstances present an opportunity, let us pursue dialogue and education. If this invitation to an understandably skeptical state legislator leads to a constructive exchange, I will be honored to celebrate it here.
The best time to start talking is now.
@AuforGA @ChaunceyGardner @jgitchell @imaracingmom @DaveDobbins1970
Dr. Au, I would like to invite you to a facilitated Zoom conversation with Dr. Gardner and 1-2 other experts in this field, including myself — whom you may at this juncture understandably view with skepticism based on the information you have been provided — simply to discuss the science and related policy issues. I would be delighted to arrange this with your staff if you would be so kind as to have them contact me at [email protected].
Respectfully,
Cliff Douglas
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
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.
xitter.cf/Clive_Bates/status/211…
You can burn your reputation, but you can't hide it.
Since 2021, the @FDA has authorized 65 new flavored tobacco products—including e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches that appeal to kids.
That’s 65 times @FDATobacco has put Big Tobacco’s profits ahead of protecting kids. We’re keeping score.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Caffeine gets a coffee shop. Nicotine gets a moral panic.
Smoking kills. Confusing nicotine with smoke is indefensible.
My book, The Politics of Acceptable Addiction, is out now. It takes aim at the double standard.
cambridgescholars.com/produc…
“Adults who smoke deserve better than an argument that loses interest in their circumstances the moment an alarming vascular result becomes available. They deserve evidence about the choices they actually face.”
Yes, you want to know more. Get into it:
09algor.substack.com/p/the-e…
Seventeen vapers, a snapshot of vascular function, and a conclusion about harm reduction that reaches beyond the study.
@ArielleSelya @jkelovuori @jgitchell
09algor.substack.com/p/the-e…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
"Nicotine vaping is one of the most effective ways we have to stop smoking. And it comes at a fraction of the risk of smoking tobacco. That’s a really important public health message.”
xitter.cf/jkelovuori/status/2113…
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
There is only pity for a man such as this
AI generated music is 1000x better than real music.
Today I canceled Spotify and SiriusXM because I finally tested Suno.
What sold me was the first prompt I gave it:
“My favorite artists are A Day to Remember, Bring Me The Horizon, Spiritbox, Bad Omens, and Sleep Token.
Analyze all their hits and generate a song I’m likely to love based on those artists.”
It one shots an absolute banger in 10 seconds.
I'll link the song in the next tweet for anyone curious.
Why would I ever go back to Spotify/SiriusXM when I can generate music perfectly tailored to my taste on command, for free?
Not affiliated with Suno in any way btw, it was just one of those moments where I was so impressed with AI’s capability I had to say something about it.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
Thank you all for the well wishes. Al is on the mend and hopefully will be home today.
Phillip Kirschberg retweeted
I talked to a bridge builder today. I was treated with kindness, grace, respect, and curiosity. The conversation was the highlight of my day!
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