DEEP IMPACT | Bloomberg’s Influence on the WHO & US Vaping Policy | RegWatch *Guest: MarcGunther Cliff Douglas Michael Eriksen Jim McCarthy Vapor Technology Association Allison Gregory Conley CASAA INNCOorg Global Forum on Nicotine GrimmGreen

Huh. When IQOS was introduced in the US market, it was helping people quit smoking. When it was suddenly removed from the market (due to a patent dispute between 2 tobacco companies), nearly 10% of customers switched back deadly cigarettes.
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I talk bluntly about #vaping , #smoking , Michael Bloomberg, the FDA and the World Health Organization with Brent Stafford on RegWatch.

Deep Impact | Bloomberg’s Influence on the WHO & US Vaping Policy | RegWatch regulatorwatch.com/brent_stafford…

This is great news and well deserved by ⁦Giving Green⁩ and its founder ⁦Dan Stein⁩

They identify the most effective ways to donate to curb #climate change and are allied with the #effectivealtruism movement.

#philanthropy philanthropy.com/article/anonym…

The half-century campaign to legalize marijuana was a big success. Until now. | my new story for Medium

link.medium.com/JBE20sgdQJb

A billionaire’s #philanthropy encourages others to give, via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/…

How did marijuana become legal in much of the US? It was a top-down as well as a bottom up campaign. | My new story for The Chronicle of Philanthropy

#philanthropy #cannabis NORML Drug Policy Alliance

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An excellent op-ed by Rachel Pritzker in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A Partisan Warrior's Reckoning

'Democracy is not the same thing as our preferred political or policy outcomes,' writes rachel pritzker

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An open letter from Jewish donors and Jews who work in #philanthropy . Clearly there's more to this story.

jewsinphilanthropy.org

This is an amazing, under-reported good-news story with lessons for the US: Sales of alternative, safer nicotine products have caused a 52% drop in sales of cigarettes in Japan. #smoking #vaping

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This is very bad for efforts to curb #climate change, via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/05/15/bus…

This is not a good look for the “nonprofit” sector.

Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis | The Free Press

#philanthropy thefp.com/p/nonprofits-m…

The nonprofit Harlem Children’s Zone will try to help close the racial wealth gap, via @NYTimes #philanthropy nytimes.com/2024/05/09/nyr…

A great interview about #philanthropy with investor and entrepreneur Ken Langone in the Philanthropy Roundtable

philanthropyroundtable.org/magazine/inter…

I love this interview.

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/05/04/mag…

Two NYU profs, David Abrams and Ray Niaura, failed to disclose their unpaid relationship with Juul Labs to professional journals or Congress, reports STAT.

No one has challenged the substance of their work, however.

#vaping #smoking

statnews.com/2024/05/06/juu…

Some Medscape customers wanted to hear more about tobacco harm reduction from @SlSatel and Brad Rodu. Sadly, they won't have the chance. Their teachers were cancelled.

#vaping #smoking

rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2024/05/what-m…

Must-read: Tobacco smoking addiction and nicotine dependence - an excellent synthesis of knowledge, history, and possible approaches.
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It is a chapter by Sharon Cox for a forthcoming book, but there is no need to wait.

Florida Republicans ban lab-grown meat, which does not exist as a commercial product. So idiotic.

#animalrights

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2024/05/06/opi…

'Americans have every reason to be suspicious of Big #Philanthropy .'

A pointed critique of big foundations, by Jeff Cain in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He doesn't pull any punches!

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