"Harm reduction advocates say this damagingly conflates vaping with smoking in the public eye, won’t protect kids in any meaningful way, and contributes to a worsening national climate for tobacco harm reduction."
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
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My latest column out today.
This a beautiful meditation on grief in the wake of the mysterious loss - and return - of a Tin Man sculpture.
The curious case of the disappearing Tin Man by Kiran Sadhu @kiransidhu41.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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I'm quoted in this piece by @kiransidhu41.bsky.social. Sometimes I wonder if the cartels themselves didn't write this deeply problematic new law that creates an incredibly profitable illicit economy.
A steep decline in youth vaping in NZ—where vapes are broadly embraced as harm reduction—"pinpricks the campaign of fear-mongering and moral outrage that is being propagated by the quit-or-die crowd,” as one advocate puts it.
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
“By banning vape flavors, we saw cigarette sales jump by nearly 10 percent,” says one of the study authors, describing a causal link in Canadian jurisdictions with bans.
Yet many leaders "chose fear over facts," advocate says.
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
“When I was drowning in anxiety about Trump’s recent actions, I was overlooking the beauty around me.” Kiran Sidhu on how watching Postman Pat comforted her in troubled times.
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The world feels bleak and this sense of collective malaise has led me to seek sanctuary in children’s TV—specifically Postman Pat, writes Kiran Sidhu.
Haha! Oh, yes! I remember this!
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Earlier this month Suely Castro posed a question to an audience at the United Kingdom’s Parliament in London:
“If safer alternatives can save lives, what responsibility do we have to science, to fairness and to the people we serve?”
By @kiransidhu41.bsky.social:
After my mother died on Christmas Eve, I felt a desperate need to connect with my heritage, writes Kiran Sidhu.
“Millions of lives are waiting for the [FDA Center for Tobacco Products] to get this right.”
Amid hints of a change of attitude to tobacco harm reduction, experts list recommendations that the agency has the power to adopt.
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
“We can’t turn our back on a potential solution.”
Despite the "ugly spectacle" of attacks on tobacco harm reduction at the global tobacco control COP11, policy damage was largely averted, reports @kiransidhu41.bsky.social —thanks to some national delegations refusing to toe the WHO line:
"The strategy, as many have reflected, appears to be that if you can’t win the argument, try to discredit the messenger," writes
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social. "It’s little wonder, then, that in the runup to COP11, such attacks seem to have escalated."
"Some did state that nicotine causes cancer."
Deeply unhappy with colleagues' misrepresentations, an Australian medical professional organized education sessions.
Given health authorities' views, she spoke with
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social on condition of anonymity:
For the very first time, more adults in Britain are using vapes than are smoking cigarettes.
This crossover point is a "massive milestone," one expert tells @kiransidhu41.bsky.social. Yet the "consumer-led revolution" is under threat:
"Prohibition is unfortunately the default response to complex issues.”
Denver has decisively voted to uphold its vape flavor ban, despite harm reductionists' warnings, reports @kiransidhu41.bsky.social.
Michael Bloomberg contributed $5 million to the ban campaign:
"Pouches with higher nicotine levels can make a vital contribution by delivering the satisfaction people may need if they’re to avoid returning to deadly cigarettes," reports @kiransidhu41.bsky.social. "But they won’t perform this role if they’re not available."
Kiran Sidhu thinks of her house as an instrument: a gong whose sound can be heard long after it has been struck and which resonates across generations.
“This is a dreadful public health policy, likely to disproportionately affect the poor and marginalized."
With Ireland already badly failing on its smoking-cessation goals, the heavy new vape tax will hit people who've switched and deter others from doing so, reports @kiransidhu41.bsky.social:
“Classifying vapes alongside betting shops as ‘undesirable’ businesses completely ignores their proven health benefits of harm reduction."
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
“We are at a fork in the road."
Malaysian experts say the planned prohibition will not only impede smoking cessation, but also prompt an influx of more of the adulterated vapes that the government is reacting to.
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
“As always, the question arises as to what they have to hide.”
Organizers' “worst-case scenario is to have people who have benefited from tobacco harm reduction telling their stories."
As COP11 looks to exclude pro-THR voices, advocates fear the policy outcomes, reports @kiransidhu41.bsky.social:
One of my favourite songs
The first album I ever bought. Think I was 10.
