Simon Chapman AO

The Hinkley C UK nuclear reactor will produce 3.2GW, it will cost £50bn.

For that the UK could have built 40GW of Wind Turbines in 1/5th of the time.

Which would even on the least windy days of the year produce TWICE as much electricity.

Nuclear is an unnecessary RIPOFF.

ERMMM. Breathing in 'steam' not 'stream' Damn the late inventor of auto-correct. May he roast in piss!

Vaping theology 25: Vaping is as harmless as breathing in stream, so everyone relax! 10 tenets of vaping harm denial. When you ask vapers why they vape, different answers are typically given by new experimental vapers and those who have been doing it for longer. Curiosity, the attraction of flavours and lower pric…

Chapter 25 in my blog series on vaping theology: #Vaping is as harmless as breathing in stream. So everyone relax. 10 tenets of vaping harm denial. simonchapman6.com/2026/03/10/v... #nicotine #smoking

Vaping theology 25: Vaping is as harmless as breathing in stream, so everyone relax! 10 tenets of vaping harm denial. When you ask vapers why they vape, different answers are typically given by new experimental vapers and those who have been doing it for longer. Curiosity, the attraction of flavours and lower pric…

Chapter 25 in my blog series on vaping theology: #Vaping is as harmless as breathing in stream. So everyone relax. 10 tenets of vaping harm denial. simonchapman6.com/2026/03/10/v... #nicotine #smoking

Netanyahu has been regularly warning that Iran will develop the capability to build nuclear weapons since 1995, 31 years ago x.com/GusLefty/sta...

barking, howling mad

“If we stopped selling cigarettes tomorrow, someone else would take our place”. Late last month, Philip Morris International tweeted one of its daily attempts to convince the world that it is now a health promotion company, firmly aligned with global public health to try and r…

PMI has been running this crap for many years simonchapman6.com/2019/02/12/i...

Watch Philip Morris CEO Says Cigarettes Belong in a Museum as Zyn and IQOS Surge - Bloomberg For more than a century, tobacco has been one of the world’s most heavily regulated industries and with each wave of regulation, it has reinvented itself. Now Philip Morris International is accelerati...

Philp Morris boss, whose company still sells billions of cigarettes a year, says they belong in a museum. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/... So why doesn't he withdraw them all now then?

Sickening & dangerous state run religious fanaticism for all

Crime gangs use fake plain packaging from China to flood Australian market Australian crime syndicates are using fake plain packaging — mass produced overseas — to legitimise illicit tobacco and flood the legal market with knock-offs.

Illegal untaxed cigs no being sold in knock-off Aussie plain packs. Errrm... just 1 fatal question from undercover inspectors fixes that: how much, mate? Busted! Illegal retailers not too bright? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Simply brilliant photo by Terry Serio, Sydney actor/musician/friend

It's long overdue that vegans were held accountable for this sort of on-going horror

Innovation down under 2: tobacco endgame strategies in New Zealand (the UK & USA) A recent post reviewed the tobacco control innovations introduced into Australia through the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Act 2023 (Cth). New Zealand was legislating world-leading inn…

Useful blog on recent status of tobacco control endgames in several nations sydneyhealthlaw.com/2026/03/05/i...

Vape advocates have all signed up to the "hardening hypothesis" (that as smoking falls, an impervious hardcore, deeply addicted group of smokers is all that remains & they need vapes. This idea is bereft of evidence wordpress.com/reader/blogs...

Musk cuts Starlink access for Russian forces, giving Ukraine an edge at the front Ukrainian troops say Russian forces are suffering setbacks without access to Elon Musk's system.

eg: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine

I've been reading lots of posts about Ukraine allegedly pushing back v hard, incl stores about Musk turning off his vital Starlink access to Russia. But I subscribe to the Kyiv Independent and few of these stories are here kyivindependent.com. What to believe ...

Arizona is building the first solar canal in the U.S. . Solar-covered canals will generate renewable energy and save water in this notoriously dry area: buff.ly/3wEcF5h

We have so many solutions to this crisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

British American Tobacco faces UK lawsuit over North Korea sanctions breaches | News24 British American Tobacco is facing a London lawsuit ‌from shareholders over allegations that the cigarette ⁠maker failed to properly tell markets about breaches of ⁠US sanctions in relation to its bus...

British American Tobacco facing Armageddon lawsuit over deadly repercussions of its illegal dealings with N Korea. www.news24.com/business/com...

Melania chairs UN committe on safety of children.https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/melania-trump-just-did-something-no-first-lady-has-ever-done-20260303-p5o6xp.html?btis
The ideal track record for Trumpian times.

some wisdom on Americans

Next time you read gushing claims abt how randomised controlled trials show nicotine aids (NRT,vapes) "work", reflect on this: HUGE proportions of smokers are excluded from NRTs, likely producing v flattering results for real-world quitting effectiveness. Most ex-smokers quit unaided

Chapter 8 of my 50y career memoir is about exposing & discrediting bad actors in public health:those who wake each day determined to delay,dilute,disrupt,dissemble & defeat public health policies: examples from tobacco, vapes, guns, windfarms & more. Free here ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

Tobacco and smoking - Tobacco closure orders register View the NSW register of premises issued closure orders under the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2008 for illicit tobacco, illegal vaping, or unlicensed sales.

NSW Health has now closed 79 illegal tobacco shops for 3 months, with rate accelerating. This list updated Fridays. Many of these will not re-open to start illegal selling again as protocols involve unannounced re-checking & whopping fines for re-offenders www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Page...

Iran: Weaponizing Justice System to Persecute Baha’is Iran is escalating its repression of Baha’is, with a recent series of harsh prison sentences and asset confiscations.

Those of B'hai faith long been considered apostates in Iran & persecuted. Had a friend in research editing who fled with family across mountains into Turkey/England in '80s. Another dimension to potential regime change www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

I have a dear friend, just 70, who is several years into dementia. Very depressing for him and all of us. Also have lots of friends who have normal, age-related forgetfulness. The latter group routinely compare their foibles during their organ recital updates whenever we meet.

Nice if someone would compare quantity of media coverage on inconvenienced, upset, tired, anxious stranded #Iran war passengers with day-to-day living conditions for 100,000s homeless in #Gaza who have lived this way for years with no hope.

An invoilable tenet of global vaping theology is that NZ youth smoking plummeted post the vape surge. But it had been falling for years & decline SLOWED with vapes, shows later analysis simonchapman6.com/2025/08/28/e... Tenacity of tenet great example of confirmation bias

Music, bands, films African music I’ve had an  obsession with African music since the early 1980s, after buying Hugh Masekela’s Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz LP (Blue Note 1973). I DJ’d an African musi…

I've added links to 50 best Spotify selections for these 9 African regions/nations: Congo, Mali, Nigerian Afrobear & Juju, Senegal, Zimbabwe/Sth Africa, East Africa, N Africa, W Africa + Ghanaian Highlife simonchapman6.com/music/ Mainly from 1970s-90s golden era + Motherload 900+ pan African list

Ahhh we are about to enjoy old "Sarah Moaney" at the opening of the #AsiaCup football. I long for Serry Money

Question about Khamenei's death to Iran's women's football team quickly shutdown As the world reacts to the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian women's football team prepares to play its opening Women's Asian Cup game in Australia.

And here we go ... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...