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.@Grok estimates the combined smoking rate of Californians and migrants at 16-18%, not the reported 10%
Newsom cannot ignore this long before smoking's costs cripple the state, especially with tobacco tax revenue at only $1.4 billion total
HT: @AsmDeMaioOffice
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Smoking costs, alone, will bankrupt the state
- California is cooked
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Is $50 million in revenue significant for a trade organization or NGO, in a $27 trillion economy?
Is $5 million a large annual salary for the president of such an organization?
NACS Form 990:
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If there's one thing that cannot be said, about tobacco corporations/manufacturers, it's that they don't take protecting their business interests, seriously
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Tell me you prepped for the HHS Budget hearing by watching Altria’s Q1 earnings call…
…without telling me you prepped for the HHS Budget hearing by watching Altria’s Q1 earnings call.
Sen. Moody drops the exact “60% Chinese disposables” stat Altria cooked up.
Sec. Kennedy praises chip-enabled vapes (JUUL/NJOY — Big Tobacco-owned) and vows to “wipe [Chinese disposable vapes] out.”
All in a budget hearing — with zero mention that smoking still drains $300+ billion/year from U.S. taxpayers.
This wasn’t public health oversight.
This was a corporate handoff - with Baptists & Bootleggers fully united:
🚨 Moral panic to “protect the children”
đź’° Tobacco giants using it to crush competition
Same script as Obama’s 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which handed the FDA to Big Tobacco.
Now MAHA’s the sequel - and RFK Jr.’s reading their lines.
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And, really, I have YET to hear @SecKennedy or @RobertKennedyJr say squat about the chronic diseases and death, that smoking cigarettes, cause. Have you, @grok?
I spoke too soon.
President Trump pledged to save flavored vaping.
Today, his HHS Secretary correctly said Biden’s FDA “slow-walked” applications from responsible U.S. companies, though his definition of “responsible” is murky. (In reality, they denied millions outright *after* slow-walking them.)
He pledged to put an end to Chinese vapes with flavors that “target kids” like “watermelon”—flavors that millions of adults actually use to stay off cigarettes.
You can’t fix a broken system by recycling its worst talking points.
Altria Q1 Earnings Call 🧵
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🚨 BREAKING: The FDA’s war on vaping has backfired—badly. 🚨
Altria just admitted in their Q4 earnings call that illicit disposable vapes now control 60% of the market—because the FDA refused to approve legal alternatives.
They underestimated the black market.
📽️ Watch:
🧵 A thread on how the FDA protected cigarettes & destroyed legal vaping. 👇
It's standard fare, for agency (and NGO) bureaucrats acknowledge benefits. It's also standard fare, for agency (and NGO) bureaucrats, to push and enact policy regulations, that hamper progress, to the point of destroying industry innovations - that improve public health
FDA is a PHINO pharma trade association
Important recognition here from two former directors of @FDATobacco - @ScottGottliebMD and Brian King (now at @TobaccoFreeKids) that harm reduction works for tobacco. @DrMakaryFDA has an extraordinary opportunity now to make smoking history.
Anyone in “healthcare” that didn’t flat call out the lies re: EVALI or doesn’t flat out acknowledge that vaping clean nicotine, without smoke, is magnitudes better than cigarettes, is not someone that worthy of respect or position
While I don’t know @CaseyMeansMD position on smoking, it appears that we dodged a bullet, with Victory not getting the nod
#PHINO
Thanks @Grok!
Sounds like a great time for vape shops to double the price of disposables, and run sales on traditional (open tank) style e liquids! 🇺🇸🚀🔥
#VapeAmerican #VapeOn
The U.S. tariff rate on disposable vapes from China is likely around 170%, based on April 2025 reports, though a May 2025 report suggests 79%, indicating possible changes. China is a major tobacco producer and likely exports to the U.S., contributing to global supply chains, though specific U.S. export data is limited.
As a lot can be discerned by who/what you're not allowed to criticize, a lot can also be extrapolated, by what America's "health" agencies allow
eg. American gas stations are plastered with tobacco cigarette and snuff advertising
Where's @SecKennedy on smoking? #MAHA
And just like former CDC director Frieden, there should be no surprise, to see FDA Brian King - with other NGO connections, as well
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Hopeful that @DataRepublican & @DOGE is tracking these moves
@DOGE_FDA
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owning it - doesn't mean that it's not living rent-free in my head...the potential of being duped by Bobby K Jr
like, how'd I not look to see if @RobertKennedyJr had ANY position on smoking cigarettes, before I voted for him?
@SecKennedy hasn't posted about it, either #MAHA
vape e-liquids: massive nicotine warning on front and back
combustible/deadly cigarettes: FDA is meh
"The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled--in favor of Jones Day clients that include R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company--that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulation requiring graphic cigarette warning labels likely exceeds the Agency's authority under the Tobacco Control Act"
And bureaucrats wonder why people don't trust the FDA & other PHINO /health agencies
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@doge @doge_fda @HHSGov @DOGE_HHS @SecKennedy
/shocking that the GOVT, NIH, FDA, CDC, et al lied about covid - shouldn't be, though
#EVALI was a test run
The White House just updated Covid.gov & accuses Fauci of lying & covering up the origin of Covid-19 virus & making up anti-science policies like social distancing, lockdowns, masks etc.
Of course people “doing their own research” knew all this 4 years ago, which is why we were censored, smeared & slandered.
The completely corrupt corporate media was also responsible & on the forefront of lying, pushing fake science & slandering the doctors/scientists/journalists who were telling the truth & exposing the lies.
The thing that still blows my mind the most is that people who do independent news shows, many of whom I know personally, completely went along with the lies, defended Big Pharma & Government lies, cowardly refused to use their critical thinking skills, and STILL are gutless cowards afraid to cover the biggest story of their lives.
They pushed the lies & the slander of people like Joe Rogan, Dr Malone, RFK jr., and me with zeal & zero shame, and will never atone or apologize.
I for one will never forget, and will continue to call for accountability & prosecutions. I hope you do too.
Instead of asking your doctor, if such and such drug, is right for you
Instead, ask why tf are doctors glazing over side effects that cause harm and kill humans
FDA is a trade association
1 out of 10 had to drop out of trials, bc of serious side effects…and even though the FDA hasn’t approved the weight loss/diabetes drugs, Eli Lilly is moving forward - ramping up production
Imagine having FDA as a trade association, with no obstacles; even harms
Who needs commercials, when you’re on nearly every gas pump & behind grocery & c store cash register, in America?
Irony: pharma is a big reason smoking is still around, and protected
Massive money in treating chronic illnesses
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"We know that that smoking can add years of life, and improve health, and well-being"
Jerome Adams MD
US Surgeon General
Appointed by POTUS 45; Real Donald Trump
only the best for America!
Stand With Vape retweeted
Thread: What happens in the real world when flavor bans are implemented
1. 'San Francisco’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales was associated with increased smoking among minor high school students relative to other school districts.'
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