Brad Rodu
@BradRodu
Professor of Medicine, Endowed Chair of Tobacco Harm Reduction Research, University of Louisville
Another great article at @the_firebreak. Highlights my favorite topics like tobacco=smoking=vaping: rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-wh… Prohibition: rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2016/01/bootle… Bruce Ames and coffee (caffeine): rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2011/11/carcin…
Stigmatizing vapers, spreading misinformation... Part 2 of @zaruk's 3-part series on the irrationality of opposition to tobacco #HarmReduction strategies looks at why regulators handcuffed themselves with policies against vaping, snus and nicotine pouches. thefirebreak.org/p/why-have-hea…
Recent @theNCI survey shows: Smokers quit with vapes, but not if they don’t believe they work. Using vapes is the key to believing they work. Don’t trust the @AmerMedAssoc on this issue. #vaping #smoking #health
Commissioner @DrMakaryFDA on high schoolers vaping: half? National Youth Tobacco Survey: In 2023. 73,092 of the nation’s 15.8 million high schoolers vaped frequently enough (20-30 days in past month) to be at risk for being addicted. Half of one percent
Calculating "Big Kill" estimates has always been a black box. More from my article in Cato Institute's Regulation here: tinyurl.com/bdf8p45s
How are those 480,000 'smoking related' deaths compiled? @BrentStafford ASKS; Dr. @BradRodu SPEAKS of those '480k' numbers - NO one - can find the source and answer to that #data? Via @RegWatchCanada Full link Jul 22, 2022: youtu.be/v2tXjjaEIlM?si…
You should wave goodbye with your wallet to the American @LungAssociation because its specious claims contribute to the untimely deaths of the smokers it feigns to help tinyurl.com/2p9tvywu
From @zaruk: "The WHO needs to stop spreading misinformation..It is time to purge the WHO of the old guard anti-tobacco activists..stop relying on philanthropists and their interest groups..It is time for the WHO to grow up and become responsible.." tinyurl.com/ymt82ws5
The Society for Restriction on Nicotine and Tobacco @srntorg whines about @CDCTobaccoFree losing $310 million. Wrong! It will make American smokers healthy again #MASHA tinyurl.com/38jhmz52
You should contact the Mississippi Corrections Commission that has been promoting tobacco harm reduction in its prisons for 4 years: rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2021/01/missis…
Prison vape bans "are vulnerable because they cost [the state] money, as well as lives," writes @jonmkirkpatrick. But to implement beneficial change, "We must have representation on the outside." "I’m asking the rest of the THR community to step up." filtermag.org/tobacco-harm-r…
To the @AmerMedicalAssn: What Smokers Wish Doctors Knew About E-Cigarettes tinyurl.com/mus5dnaa
Garbage in – garbage out. The results of the recent meta-analysis on e-cigarettes are invalid tinyurl.com/3wmuhvym
By accepting fake science denying the relative safety of smokeless tobacco, Medicine has never been less sensible tinyurl.com/4dsp65f5 That cost millions of lives. Thank you @adamcifu and @Sensible__Med
Nicotine mortality can be measured…by the millimeter (that’s 0.039 of an inch) tinyurl.com/5bssdzyz
How I survived on the faculty at two research universities for forty-four years while conducting research on safer smoke-free tobacco products for thirty years tinyurl.com/mrc7hwvt
The Real Cost of FDA’s “Real Cost” E-Cigarette Campaign tinyurl.com/543f3m5x
Outstanding!! Look forward to more
I received the first set of results today. Let's go through some of them. A 🧵 strictly for the nerds:
Just out from the CDC Office on Smoking and Health. Why do Arrazola and colleagues continue to ignore that vapes are replacing cigarettes? tinyurl.com/mr37d33e Notes from the Field: Tobacco Product Use Among Adults — United States, 2017–2023 cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
Kudos to Dr. Sally Satel for: The Public Health Triumph No One's Talking About nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…