VapingIT, SPE, EEI

My profile pic expresses my pride in having shared a stage with &TheVapingBogan and @GrimmGreen. Laws have been passed to suppress our voices; to deny us the same rights others enjoy to Free Speech. Many others like us have also been subjected to smear campaigns, cancellation of our platforms, jobs or businesses. Why? Why cancel people who cracked how to reach and effectively communicate with people who smoke cigarettes about how to finally stop smoking? Across the world people like us —influencers, harm reduction advocates, vape shop owners and consumers, and a small number of brave academics, scientists and ‘tobacco control’ people have helped hundreds of thousands (it’s now millions) of people to quit smoking. Quickly. Easily. Our new innovative approaches, underpinned by RESPECT and genuine care for consumers, showed up how flawed and how ineffective all previous public health / behavioural change theories and strategies were. Instead of advancing, we were framed as a threat to the established global tobacco control sector and their lucrative cancer, lung, respiratory, and anti-smoking NGOs. So, they shifted from their one job, their only mandate — reduce smoking-related disease and deaths — to eliminating us and the innovative new far far far safer products that will see mass production of cigarettes displaced just like the light bulb replaced gas lamps, just like digital phones replaced cameras and Kodak film. Technological innovation, scientific advancement and forward thinkers will not be stopped. But, while the enemies of innovation, those people trying to hang on to their salaries and status block access to the escape pods (pun), millions of people every year — about 7 million — continue to die. Millions more develop and live with debilitating diseases. The academics, and the health workers & journalists they’ve lied to, can defame me (as they have), cancel me, block publication of my research papers; they can lie to the public, threaten people into cutting all contact with me; make me a leper like they tried to do to smokers. By their actions they have shown how behind and how unethical they are. I know how wrong they are and I remain proud to fight alongside the consumers for their right to choose a safer nicotine product. #vapingsaveslives #oralnicotinepouchessavelives #heatedtobaccoproductssavelives

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