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Video of Australia's limited overs cricket captain Aaron Finch #vaping during tense #ipl match goes viral. #livelifesmokefree
Aaron Finch spotted vaping in the dressing room during RCB vs RR clash, video goes viral - WATCH
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A viral video shows RCB batsman Aaron Finch vaping in the dressing room during his side's clash against Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2020 on Saturday.David Sweanor, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Ottawa who has studied the global tobacco industry for decades, was among those who signed the letter.
"There are serious problems with the peer-review process and the reluctance of journals to retract invalid work," Sweanor said. "This has helped feed the reduction in trust in academia, and science in general." #vapers #vaping #voices4vape
A Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Retracted
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The paper, published by the American Heart Association's scientific journal, claimed that vaping could lead to a heart attack.The alleged “moro-moro” hearings came in the wake of allegations the FDA received foreign funding from anti-tobacco groups prompting the House leadership to call for an investigation on the agency’s potential conflict of interest and bias. #smokefree4life #livelifesmokefree #vaping
FDA accused of violating Filipino vapers' rights
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Tobacco harm reduction advocates have accused the Philippines Food and Drug Administration of violating the rights of Filipino vapers and consumers when the agency allegedly delivered lectures, instead of holding public consultations, on the draft guidelines for the regulation of e-cigarettes and he...While the FDA initially denied receiving foreign funds, Suansing cited the grant given by Bloomberg as support to “the implementation of the National Tobacco Control Program under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drugs Administration. This includes supporting the implementation and notifications mechanisms for regulating tobacco product packaging and labeling, TAPS, tobacco product content and disclosure and illicit trade.”
House leader seeks probe on grants given to FDA by anti-tobacco groups
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A ranking member of the House of Representatives pushed for a congressional inquiry into the acceptance of grants from anti-tobacco groups by the Philippines Food and Drugs Administration which is tasked to prepare the guidelines for the regulation of vapor products and heat-not-burn tobacco product...Slanted "preliminary" review suggests there is insufficient "evidence to conclude that e-cigarettes are effective for quitting"
Lead researcher Professor Emily Banks said "there was limited evidence that e-cigarettes helped people give up smoking. Ex-smokers using e-cigarettes are more than twice as likely to relapse." Where's the evidence?
Banks added that "the magnitude of that risk varied depending on the country the research was done in, but on average non-smokers were three times more likely to take up tobacco smoking if they used e-cigarettes." No, no no, pure fantasy.
The evidence, Professor Banks, can be found, among the many other sites featuring vapers who quit tobacco thanks to vaping, at the Vapers Voices website (thevapers . org/vapers_voices/), where one can read the testimonies of 1000s of former smokers from across the world who now vape and have kicked their tobacco addiction.
Therein lies the reality, not the fiction this report espouses
#smokefree4life #voices4vape
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Vapers Voices Supporting the right to vape – petition responses Health experts state that vaping is around 95% less harmful than smoking and by switching to vape products smokers can significantly improve their health. Millions of people around the world have successfully used e-cigarettes to kick...