Dr Sarah Jackson, the lead author of the study, based at the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, said that current plans to tax high-nicotine vapes at a higher rate may make it less affordable to quit smoking.
She said: “Our study shows a sharp increase in the use of high-strength nicotine e-liquids in England since 2021.
“Nicotine may be addictive, but it is not what causes the great majority of harms from smoking. For smokers trying to quit, vaping with higher-strength nicotine is likely to be more effective, as it satisfies cravings more quickly and provides better relief from withdrawal symptoms.
“Taxing higher-strength nicotine products at higher rates will make the most effective way to quit less affordable, which may drive vapers towards lower-strength e-liquids and potentially undermine smoking cessation attempts. Of smokers who had quit within the last year and were vaping, we found that around 40% reported using those products which would attract the highest proposed tax rate.”
Meanwhile my gov decided to tax by volume so everyone is incentivized to buy stronger stuff.
"Please sir, may the peasants have some shred of justice"
If we didn't live in corporatocraciesmasqueradingas democracies dozens of decision makers at Boeing, all the way to the top, would be serving life in prison for killing hundreds of people.
Really interesting article. Here are a couple highlights but this one is worth clicking on to read in its entirety, even the original to give it the clicks it needs.
This means air pollution has overtaken tobacco use and poor diet to become the second leading risk factor for early death, behind only high blood pressure, it said.
Nearly every person in the world breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution every day, the report found.
I found the parts about the "spikes" especially interesting.
That article doesn't pull its punches. Good for them. Columbia University leadership should be dragged through the mud for this farcical panel of partisans with extreme views being selected, without any domain expertise, to run this panel. What a joke.
I'll have to read the rest later, but good riddance, bout time people finally recognize what people do to their own bodies is a human fucking right. Hopefully down the road this human right becomes less controversial and I can finally stop hearing the bullshit "facts" (When it literally isn't, is taken out of context, disingenuous and in bad faith) that the homo/transphobes pull out of their asses.
While I don't agree with illegal immigration, it's good to see that at least the ones that have kept their head down, contributed to society and community, and have essentially made themselves part of us at least have the option to make it official without having to split up their family in the meantime.
It's immoral, it's anti human, so that's problem number one. And what's worse, they did such a shit job at it that the social media companies identified the accounts quickly, so surely our adversaries could do the same.
And there was this bit in the article: "The senior Defense Department official said that those complaints led to an internal review in late 2021, which uncovered the anti-vaccine operation. The probe also turned up other social and political messaging that was “many, many leagues away” from any acceptable military objective. The official would not elaborate."
So I expect we'll see reports of other shithead operations before long.
I feel like this quote from the BBC article is the bigger story:
According to Israeli media, neither Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor the defence minister Yoav Gallant were aware of plans for a pause before they were announced.
Mr Netanyahu's office reportedly said the prime minister had told his military secretary that the plan was "unacceptable" after hearing about it on Sunday.
He has also reportedly been told that there has been no change to the IDF's policy and that the fighting in Rafah "continues as planned".
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said the decision to pause fighting had been made by a "fool" who was "evil".
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