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Brad Rodu

@BradRodu

Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville

 Kentucky
rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com
Joined August 2011
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Chest is an @AmericanThoracic ATS journal. Starting in 2013, ATS "opposes nonmedical forms of nicotine delivery, such as electronic cigarettes and other smokeless tobacco products, until harm reduction strategies are fully studied."
Brad Rodu (@BradRodu) profile pictureBrad Rodu@BradRoduJun 17
Replying to @DrWoofAus @ClevelandClinic @grok
Greg Conley provided a partial answer on X: "Peter J. Mazzone is not just a random Cleveland Clinic doctor who is afraid of change. He is also the editor in chief of @journal_CHEST."
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Correction: The Chest journal is not affiliated with the American Thoracic Society. But it follows the same tobacco research prohibition policy
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Now, the FDA has fully studied and acknowledged numerous products as appropriate for protection of public health. Breathlessly waiting now for @AmericanThoracic endorsement. Pun intended
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The @ClevelandClinic deceives smokers tinyurl.com/ft22k3k8
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Clive Bates
@Clive_BatesMay 8
New Substack: FDA guidance on flavored vapes is "untethered from reality." FDA's proposals exist in an imaginary world untethered from reality-based behaviors, real-world markets, and predictable unintended consequences of excessive regulation open.substack.com/pub/cliveb…
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Watch this video a second time, and you will have watched 5 smokers die, according to the CDC: tinyurl.com/564bxnj8

Tobacco-Related Mortality

See the data and statistical information on tobacco-related mortality rates regarding smoking and tobacco use

archive.cdc.gov
VapingIT, SPE, EEI (@Vapingit) profile pictureVapingIT, SPE, EEI
@VapingitMay 6
Replying to @SenatorDurbin
They've known for a decade, Dick. Politics and nonprofit political front groups have influenced politicians and @FDATobacco far too long.
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Deep dive into fake high school vaping epidemic using the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey. tinyurl.com/yefcxv8d
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The incomparable @Clive_Bates on @FDATobacco authorization of iQOS from @InsidePMI. The good, the bad, and lots of the ugly. tinyurl.com/pm2de5j4
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My recent NYTS chart contained an error, H/T to @ChaunceyGrdner. Updated chart here
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Details here: rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.co…
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My NYTS analysis: High school smoking almost gone, vaping way down. @ParentsvsVape, @CTFKGlobal, let’s celebrate!
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Watch my lecture on “Nicotine: Correcting Misperceptions,” tinyurl.com/2s4e4t38, made possible by cancellation of my continuing medical education courses by @AccreditedCME Accreditation Council and @Medscape
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This is an incredibly important point. I demonstrated the substitution among high schoolers and young adults here: rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.co…. The fact that smoking has almost disappeared is indeed a huge public health victory.
Clive Bates (@Clive_Bates) profile pictureClive Bates
@Clive_Bates31 Jul 2025
Replying to @BradRodu @PostOpinions @DrLeanaWenMD
For those inclined to misrepresents this chart and punt a moral panic about the 6.11 million vapers (34%) who have never smoked, please be calm. Most of these are part of a huge win for public health - young adults who would have defaulted to smoking in the absence of vaping.
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The Washington @PostOpinions attack on E-Cigarettes by @DrLeanaWenMD deserves emergency room treatment tinyurl.com/3y5jff8s
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Follow-up to my exposé of the American @LungAssociation’s specious e-cigarette claims tinyurl.com/bdzax8wt
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You should wave goodbye with your wallet to the American @LungAssociation because its specious claims contribute to the untimely deaths of the smokers it feigns to help tinyurl.com/2p9tvywu
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From @zaruk: "The WHO needs to stop spreading misinformation..It is time to purge the WHO of the old guard anti-tobacco activists..stop relying on philanthropists and their interest groups..It is time for the WHO to grow up and become responsible.." tinyurl.com/ymt82ws5
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From Science: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Another great article at @the_firebreak. Highlights my favorite topics like tobacco=smoking=vaping: rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.co… Prohibition: rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.co… Bruce Ames and coffee (caffeine): rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.co…
THE FIREBREAK (@the_firebreak) profile pictureTHE FIREBREAK
@the_firebreak24 Jun 2025
Stigmatizing vapers, spreading misinformation... Part 2 of @zaruk's 3-part series on the irrationality of opposition to tobacco #HarmReduction strategies looks at why regulators handcuffed themselves with policies against vaping, snus and nicotine pouches. thefirebreak.org/p/why-have-…
Why Have Health Leaders Rejected Vaping?

Why Have Health Leaders Rejected Vaping?

Tobacco Harm Reduction Health Strategies are being Ignored, Costing Lives and Increasing Suffering (Part 2 of a Three-Part Series on Harm Reduction)

thefirebreak.org
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Swedish Match wants to market Zyn with a modified risk claim cspdailynews.com/tobacco/swe…
Swedish Match wants to market Zyn with a modified risk claim

Swedish Match wants to market Zyn with a modified risk claim

Nicotine pouch maker a step closer to doing so after FDA moves forward modified risk tobacco product applications

cspdailynews.com
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The claim: “Using Zyn instead of cigarettes puts you at a lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.”
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