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NNA Ireland retweeted
Eight Ministers Want to Freeze Europe's Smoke-Free Future farsalinos.github.io/en/news…
And over 1 million people are still non smokers
More than a million people in Great Britain who have never smoked report using an e-cigarette daily or occasionally, figures from the Office for National Statistics @ONS show
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
NNA Ireland retweeted
The effect of vaping on the quit rate is unmistakeable, but since the ONS has overlooked it, I've flagged it up below.
NNA Ireland retweeted
🚨 Just in: Eight EU governments want to slam the door on new nicotine products, then cap nicotine, ban flavours and standardise the alternatives still on sale.
The public was never consulted on a “market freeze”.
This is a direct threat to harm reduction across Europe.
clearingtheair.eu/en/post/8-…
This is now clearly a cash grab and not a public health effort. 2 more budgets and 10ml of juice will cost the same as 20 cigs
rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/100…
"Regular use of e-cigarettes or nicotine patches by pregnant smokers does not appear to be associated with any adverse outcomes." Same result as the Coomh study from a nfew years ago, in case you had forgotten that one. rcsi.com/dublin/news-and-eve… .
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
The same thing happens every time but politicians keep repeating the mistake. Perhapse @CarrollJennifer should concider if raising the smoking is the legacy she wants.
farsalinos.github.io/en/scie…
"vapes are nearly worse than cigarettes" says Taoiseach Micheál Martin, any pushback on this clearly false statment from @HSELive or @HSEQuitTeam ?
rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/090…
“They have not considered the unintended consequences," says one expert, including "increased smoking rates across the age spectrum."
Ireland's government appears more determined than ever to make tobacco harm reduction harder, reports @KiranSidhu51:
filtermag.org/disposables-ba…
NNA Ireland retweeted
Ireland’s smoking rate is still higher than its vaping rate, so of course the big political energy is going into making legal vapes less appealing. clearingtheair.eu/post/irela…
NNA Ireland retweeted
Everything wrong with harm reduction ignorance can be summarised in one article by the Guardian! 🤦♀️
"He says he was addicted to vaping for about six months. “I was doing it a lot more than I was smoking.” He has now returned to smoking in an attempt to quit vaping."
It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again? | Australian lifestyle | The Guardian share.google/A5KHdp193bZVNUd…
New Zealand’s adult smoking decline became five times faster after vaping became widely available and recognised as a quit aid. Tobacco Control may not like it (see dirty ashtray award), but it is one of the clearest real-world harm reduction success stories we have. clearingtheair.eu/post/vapin…
NNA Ireland retweeted
Will Brussels learn from Sweden before rewriting Europe’s nicotine rules? snusforumet.se/en/will-bruss…
Comments from @patrikstromer @FarsalinosK @carissaduring @cpouchers @Rathmacan @IrelandNna @NNA_Estonia from @GFNicotine #GFN26
Today is the last day to have your say - Public Consultations on the next tobacco regulations close at midnight. Remember, your story is the evidence they are calling for.
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better…
An international group of public health experts, researchers, and consumer advocates is calling on nicotine consumers across Europe to make their voices heard.
snusforumet.se/en/tpd3-consu…
"the informed respondent can only answer “Neither agree nor disagree”. But that renders their response irrelevant, suppresses their insights, and lends weight to responses from those holding simplistic views on policymaking issues."
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NNA Ireland retweeted
Yet another dodgy vaping study has been retracted. This one claimed that vaping causes Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and asthma. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/se…
Estonia has the oldest flavour ban in the EU. It has been in effect since 2020. The Smoking rate has increased by almost 39 percent since then. Yet this is touted as best practise by the tobacco policy group advising the hapless Irish Gov.
Irish Gov proposing a flavour ban, just as the Dutch report the results of their flavour ban; 87% of vapers use illegal products, youth smoking & vaping rose, and the black market exploded.
rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nie…
Perhapse this paper went unread by any of the td's.
"These findings suggest that the public health benefits from reducing ENDS sales via flavor restrictions may be offset by the public health costs of consequent increases in cigarette consumption."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4200…
