Charles A. Gardner, PhD
@chancethegardener.bsky.social
My goals are to reduce smoking-related DEATH and reduce teen nicotine USE. Both involve change. To change something, you need to be able to measure it...
Experts say it’s time to include nicotine e-cigarettes in smoking cessation conversations | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Experts say it’s time to include nicotine e-cigarettes in smoking cessation conversations
New recommendations from the Harm Reduction Work Group of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco's Treatment Research Network, with contributions from researchers at MUSC Hollings C...
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Yes. This happened according to the UK NHS. Safer is displacing deadly. In a sane world, that would be seen as good news. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
KGH Knowledge & Library Service@kghlibrary.bsky.social · 17h agoAdult smoking habits in the UK: 2025 www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
How many teens in the USA, Canada and the UK may be 'hooked' on nicotine? Thankfully, we have official govt and trusted-source (non-industry) surveys. Below is the answer. Note that in all three countries, teen nicotine vaping is dropping, not rising. (1/5) 👇
I worked in the US Department of Health from 1993-2003. Traveled often for work to Africa, Middle East and South Asia. Back then, I remember telling people how to identify a police state: Soldiers with machine guns in the airport. And now we have public executions. Yay. 🙄
What if, just hypothetically, the UK smoking rate is now dropping faster than the historical trend due to product substitution? 🫢 What if the UK's new vape tax throws a spanner in the works of the now steeper smoking decline? How many adults is it acceptable to kill... ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
What this shows yet again is whole new generation of tobacco control activists is addicted to unscrupulous dishonesty and reported enthusiastically by media
Charles A. Gardner, PhD@chancethegardener.bsky.social · 4d agoI fear I am growing more blunt, but 8 years of frustrating work in tobacco control takes its toll. There seems to be some sort of blockage between what NIH and CDC/FDA surveys actually show and what US journalists tell the public. Weird, right?
Every now & then WarOnDrugs propagandists add a touch of exaggeration @sanho.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social
Nearly 30,000 people tested quit-smoking methods. One stood out www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Nearly 30,000 people tested quit-smoking methods. One stood out
Nicotine e-cigarettes appear to help more smokers quit than patches, gum, and several other common approaches, according to a major review of 80 clinical trials. Researchers say regulated vaping produ...
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Nearly 30,000 people tested quit-smoking methods. One stood out
Nicotine e-cigarettes appear to help more smokers quit than patches, gum, and several other common approaches, according to a major review of 80 clinical trials. Researchers say regulated vaping produ...
sciencedaily.com
I fear I am growing more blunt, but 8 years of frustrating work in tobacco control takes its toll. There seems to be some sort of blockage between what NIH and CDC/FDA surveys actually show and what US journalists tell the public. Weird, right?
On the topic of governments incentivizing illicit markets: Starting this month, only 6 manufacturers will be legally permitted to sell e-cigarettes in Pennsylvania. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
Most nicotine vape products will be banned in Pennsylvania by mid-October
Only six manufacturers’ products, like Juul and Vuse, are allowed to be sold in Pennsylvania.
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Liberalism.org@liberalism.org · last mo.Costly taxes and regulations can lead to illicit markets. Jacob Grier shows how tobacco taxes and vape bans hand the market to gangs and smugglers rather than end nicotine use. www.liberalism.org/p/when-tobac...
Behold the teen nicotine vaping "epidemic" in the USA, Canada and UK. In all three countries, the public is being told how many kids vape "at least one time in the past 30 days." The public does not know how many vape daily. These images are accurate. Ask if you want links to official surveys.
Do you mean that some people switch from deadly cigarettes to safer nicotine products? Really? If that’s the case why is tobacco control so hostile to safer nicotine products? You’d think they’d welcome it?
Charles A. Gardner, PhD@chancethegardener.bsky.social · last wk.OMG. Almost as if these are product substitutes.
According to CDC, 10.5% of US teens have been diagnosed with #ADHD. Only 5.6% are on ADHD meds, so 4.9% are unmedicated. Another unknown number may have undiagnosted ADHD. Studies with nicotine patches show nicotine reduces ADHD symptoms. So, what are the chances that kid on the right has ADHD?
Malaria control health interventions are to control the vector (mosquitoes): Reduce standing water; insecticides; insecticide-impregnated bednets. Plus anti-malarial meds. Tobacco Control interventions are to control PEOPLE: Sin taxes and bans, and misinformation about relative risks.
Dr Alex Wodak AM@alexwodak.bsky.social · 2w agoGlobal #people infected by blood sucking insects vs #killed. Smoking kills 10x as many people as mosquitoes. We now know how to prevent most deaths from smoking but tobacco control perversely obstructs implementation! @algore09algor.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social
US has to decide whether it wants world to consider it is civilised or barbaric. #Capitalpunishment = state sanctioned murder. Time to ban #executions all countries @sanho.bsky.social @barnsgreg.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/o...
Opinion | Christa Pike Has Exposed the Truth About Lethal Injection
Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.
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American Cancer Society actively discourages smokers from quitting with the most effective smoking cessation tools... ...even though they KNOW, and continue to state, that those tools are safer than cigarettes.
EFFECTIVENESS = EFFICACY + USE So a smoking cessation tool that is both "efficacious" AND the most used is, obviously, the most "effective" smoking cessation intervention. US states are now imposing "sin taxes," bans and restrictions on the most effective smoking cessation tools available. 🙄
OF THE 100 KIDS ON THE LEFT: 22 drink an intoxicating drug called alcohol 9 binge drink (causing 4,000 teen deaths/year in the USA) 5 vape a non-intoxicating drug called nicotine 1 vapes daily PUBLIC RESPONSE: Alcohol: "Kids will be Kids" Nicotine: #MoralPanic!!! #FactCheck 👇 (1/3)
So adults don't like flavors? Weird. I await your proposal to ban flavored alcohol as well.
Behold the "whole new generation addicted to nicotine" ...It's that one kid on the right. Of the 100 on the left: 22 use an intoxicating drug called alcohol 9 binge drink which, nationally, causes 4,000 teen deaths/yr #FactCheck tobaccocrst.org/data-briefs www.cdc.gov/alcohol/unde...
The number of Twitter/"X" posts claiming "nicotine harms developing brains" tripled over the past 15 years... ...while the number of US teens who use nicotine dropped from 24.2% to 9.5%. There is now a profound disconnect between what the public is being told and what is actually happening.
If you don't follow this topic, you probably have no idea how out of hand the illicit nicotine market in Australia has become. It's not just tax evasion, it's extortion, firebombings of tobacco shops, and violent turf war. And if you sell e-cigarettes there, you could spend years in prison.
Liberalism.org@liberalism.org · last mo.Costly taxes and regulations can lead to illicit markets. Jacob Grier shows how tobacco taxes and vape bans hand the market to gangs and smugglers rather than end nicotine use. www.liberalism.org/p/when-tobac...
This summarizes the World Health Organization's advice to member states. 46 countries have now adopted THIS policy based on WHO guidance. That's 35% of all people on Earth. I wonder... Does no one working in the WHO ever take two steps back and ask themselves, "What if we're wrong?"
Advice for US journalists who cover the controversial topic of nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes") and nicotine pouches.
Advice for US journalists who cover the controversial topic of nicotine vapes ("e-cigarettes") and nicotine pouches.
Trying To #QuitSmoking? One Method Outperformed #NicotinePatches and Gum scitechdaily.com/trying-to-qu...
Trying To Quit Smoking? One Method Outperformed Nicotine Patches and Gum
Smokers who want to quit are most likely to succeed when they use nicotine e-cigarettes, according to a new Cochrane review.
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Physician Advice on E-Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Physician Advice on E-Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation
Physicians often face a genuine dilemma when it comes to counseling patients who smoke about e-cigarettes. Although most support the concept of harm reduction in other spheres,1 “tobacco harm reductio...
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