Peter Beckett
@peterbeckett
EU public affairs with a smile. Partner at Three Six One. Boring centrist realist. Cooking and yoga enthusiast.
More young Australians now vape AND smoke than before the ban, and it's all through the black market. Public health failure in real time. clearingtheair.eu/post/australia…
Once again, our tiny news operation beats the mainstream #EU #brussels media to the scoop on #tobacco and #nicotine policy. This time, we learned that tobacco and #vape excise will become part of the EU budget! Take note @Euractiv @POLITICOEurope @Contexte and the rest!
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Vaping and nicotine pouch taxes are being baked directly into the EU’s long-term budget. Health policy? No. This is now a money grab. Full story 👇 #EU #EUPolitics #EUPolicy clearingtheair.eu/en/post/exclus…
@UKLabour wants to ban #vaping at bus stops to tackle antisocial behaviour? So now trying to quit #smoking is antisocial? What better way for the Government to tell working people what they really think about them. Do you think #vaping at bus stops is antisocial?
Sometimes, the hypocrisy of anti #vaping fundamentalists can be clarifying, showing us who these people really are. Me for @clearingthe_air @wesstreeting take note: it never ends.
How dare you comply with our ban? The hypocrisy of nicotine prohibitionists laid bare. New post from @peterbeckett clearingtheair.eu/post/how-dare-…
🚫 “Gateway” myth busted. New US study finds teens are more likely to start with cigarettes than vapes. Smoking → Vaping. Time to rethink youth policy. #HarmReduction #Vaping clearingtheair.eu/en/post/teen-s…
SCOOP: EU to propose sweeping new #tax on #vaping, nicotine pouches and iQOS, costing users almost five BILLION Euros. Leaked Impact Assessment obtained first by Clearing the Air. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/exclus…
Hey @WHO - we fixed your rubbish cartoon for you! #WorldNoTobaccoDay #WorldVapeDay #VapingWorks
Tobacco & nicotine industries say their products are for adults. But take a look: 🍭Candy flavours 🎨Bright colours 🐻Cartoon characters ✨Sleek designs 🧸Toy-like packaging This is shameless manipulation. They're targeting our kids for profit! #WorldNoTobaccoDay
🗓️ On #WorldVapeDay, we fight misinformation with facts. Clive Bates breaks down what science really says about vaping, youth use, and public health. A must-read. 👇 worldvapeday.eu/news-articles/…
How hard will the EU’s new tobacco & vape tax proposal hit you? Check in seconds, our calculator is built on the Commission’s 16 July data. Share your result & tag your MEP. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/the-tr… #harmreduction
Career attainment unlocked; I finally got to appear on @RegWatchCanada with @brentstafford! All I need now is my own page on Tobacco Tactics and I can retire happy.
CLEARING THE AIR | Debunking Nicotine Bias from Bloomberg to Brussels | RegWatch *Guest: @peterbeckett from @clearingthe_air - @ChaunceyGardner @cdoug @swimdaily @JeffreyGWillett @JMacNYC @alli_vapes @INNCOorg @GFNicotine @VaporTechAssoc bit.ly/3UcbxOe
Good on @BrusselsTimes for covering this: these ridiculous tokenized systems should be banned as unlicensed e-money operations in my view. brusselstimes.com/belgium/165275…
Sweden's Finance Minister comes out against yet another EU Commission attempt to grab more tax powers: "It seems that the European Commission's proposal would mean a very large tax increase on white snus and, in addition, the Commission wants the tax revenue to go to the EU and…
Det verkar som att EU-kommissionens förslag skulle innebära en väldigt stor skattehöjning på vitt snus och dessutom vill kommissionen att skatteintäkterna ska gå till EU och inte till Sverige.
How dare you comply with our ban? The hypocrisy of nicotine prohibitionists laid bare. New post from @peterbeckett clearingtheair.eu/post/how-dare-…
This is exactly right. The question in Government is not "what is Britain's relevance to the war?" but "what is the war's relevance to Britain?".
How dare you comply with our ban? The hypocrisy of nicotine prohibitionists laid bare. New post from @peterbeckett clearingtheair.eu/post/how-dare-…
Really proud of the team at @clearingthe_air. Our teeny specialised news site got the scoop on the #EU #vape and #nicotine tax before media heavyweights @BILD, @Euractiv and @POLITICOEurope. If you're interested in safer nicotine politics, we're the go to destination.
UPDATE: we've now published the full impact assessment for the #EU Commission's #vape and #nicotine tax on our site. All 200 pages of it... Read the full story: clearingtheair.eu/en/post/exclus…
Just so happen to be an event where there are fair few myths about nicotine use.. Reminds me of this I did last year for @FreshSmokeFree - tobacco addiction and nicotine dependence - what's the difference? Some may find it useful youtube.com/watch?v=Xwi-nR…
There might be a Pete in the White House in 2028. Who'd have thought it.
🔵 New - 2028 primary poll 🔵 Buttigieg 32% (+4) 🔵 AOC - 19% (+3) 🔵 Harris - 17% (-7) 🔵 Booker 10% 🔵 Newsom 7% 🔵 Shapiro 5% 🔵 Whitmer 4% 🔵 Warnock 1% Atlasintel #A+
I said it first on the @FrenchDispatch. Now @EU_Commission makes it official. Cherry picking is dead. frenchdispatch.eu/p/surrender-to… pro.politico.eu/news/199382 cc @JulienHoez @RCorbettMEP @joncstone
At the current trajectory the EU won't reach its <5% smoking goal until the year 2100. Smokers can't wait 75 years - let's accelerate with honest info on safer alternatives today. #20YearsofFacts #worldvapeday worldvapeday.eu/get-involved/
Driver of this 221 bus from North Finchley refused us access because we had a pram. 2.36pm on 24/5/25. @TfL please investigate.
