Todd Rhoades

Feast on these "evidence-based" WARNINGS that will protect cigarette sales. ...While you struggle to scream with your fat "hairy tongue."

A very good article on what happens to health after a smoker switches to nicotine vaping.

This happened. It is objective truth based on @CDCTobaccoFree surveys. The US public has no clue that this happened. They have no clue as a direct result of internal @CDCgov communication strategy decisions. Why have you decided to keep the public in the dark @CDCDirector?

A tale of 4 countries. The UK and NZ governments actively encourage adult smokers to switch to nicotine vapes.* In contrast, the US govt** actively confuses adult smokers about relative risks, and the Aussie govt*** actively discourages adult smokers from switching. The results are easy to see. *The UK Public Health Service not only actively encourages switching, but is now handing out 1 million free nicotine vapes to adult smokers as a public health intervention. **The US govt (including states and localities) is actually actively discouraging adult smokers from switching to safer alternatives by making them less affordable (taxes); less acceptable ('flavor' bans); and less available (online sales and mail shipment bans) to America's 28 million adult smokers, most of whom are low-income or adults with mental health conditions, or unhomed or LGBTQ or Native Americans (who cares about THEM?). And this is all being done to protect the angelic children of high income American parents who are, obviously, giving their kids way too much in allowances, and despite the fact that total US teen nicotine vaping dropped 61% over the past four years, which no one in America knows because neither the CDC nor FDA are telling the public that this happened (super-easy to factcheck if you take 10 whole minutes to Google CDC or FDA reports or infographics for each of the past four years, which no one does). ***The Australian govt has imposed the strictest anti-vaping rules (just short of prohibition) of any industrialized country). As a result, 80% of the nicotine vapes purchased in Australia today are illicit, and their market is completely dominated by organized crime that is smuggling potentially dodgy products that are (and this should be blindingly obvious to all Aussie policymakers, but apparently isn't) SOLD WITH NO AGE-CHECKS.

PERVERSE INCENTIVES According to @CDCgov's National Health Interview Survey, this is happening. Who loses? • Cigarette, nicotine patch & gum makers • 10,000 tobacco control professionals • Bloomberg grantees • 50 state govts that depend on cigarette sin taxes • 46 state govt's that get $6b/yr from big tobacco (payments pegged to cigarette sales)