🥳 Best wishes and thanks to Deborah Arnott for her contributions to #tobaccocontrol@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social on tobacco control issues in the UK.

Understandable. In my case, my neighbors won't stop brewing coffee all hours of the day and night. Used to be an issue with tobacco but not it seems like to simply switched to another vice; very much a 'pick a poison' type of situation. I should be asleep right now. But alas. Got errands tomorrow.

Should countries consider regulating digital devices in a similar way to tobacco products? That's one idea to combat social media's rising negative impact on young people's mental health, according to a World Health Organization expert. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/educ...

Where there's smoke... There's tobacco company profit.

rule 89 ask not what your profits can do for you

Alt: Star Trek DS9's Quark is clapping together two bars of gold-pressed latinum and saying "Rule 89: Ask not what your profit can do for you, but what you can do for your profits"

$14 bn in tax breaks. Handouts to landlords who raise rents and let substandard houses that cause illness. 90-day action plans that directly affected the country's health. 50% tax break on heated tobacco products you were advised would benefit only foreign tobacco companies to the tune of $216 mn...

We keep playing by their rules against big oil, pharma, tobacco, gambling… time to go to the source ,.., Das Kapital

a man is standing in front of a billboard with his hands on his head .

ALT: a man is standing in front of a billboard with his hands on his head .

"How do you *know* he is a skilled warrior?" Well, you see, he's wearing fabric enough to clothe eight men and he keeps his tobacco in a codpiece the size of a bowling ball, what's to know?

@nknewsorg: NEW: Chinese man extradited to US to face charges over North Korea tobacco smuggling

So I bought a big, ridiculous, Hobbit-ass looking tobacco pipe, because I loved the smell of my great grandfather's pipe, and I might enjoy smoking it once or twice a year. But now I've got this thing, and I just want to mess it up with a big load of fragrant grass.

"That means she has misled the Cabinet, and meant that all the other ministers sitting around the table who could have used that $216m to fund health or to fund education, had been duped." Casey Costello will release 'independent advice' about benefits of heated tobacco #nzpol

Casey Costello will release 'independent advice' about benefits of heated tobacco products

In an interview with RNZ, NZ First's Casey Costello has said she will release 'independent advice' about what she says are the merits of heated tobacco products.