'Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded – making them the most littered item on the planet.'
Dr Jonathan Livingstone-Banks and Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce on why cigarette filters should be banned ⬇️ #OxfordClimate
Banning #cigarette filters would remove illusion of safety from filtered #cigs
WHO advise against measures sustaining perception of reduced harm
May help #quitsmoking unfiltered cigs less palatable
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theconversation.com/cigarette-fi...
Isn't it time we just banned cigarette filters?
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Check out piece in @uk.theconversation.com on varenicline & cytisine, available but under used tools to help people #quitsmoking
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@lionshahab.bsky.social & Dimitra Kale of @ucl-targ.bsky.social
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New brief piece on the terrible underuse of effective smoking cessation medications in the UK by @jlivbanks.bsky.social, Dr Dimitra Kale and myself. There’s a need to get the message out to smokers trying to quit!
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A person's hands opening a packet of chewing tobacco. It is a type of smokeless tobacco product consumed by placing a portion of the tobacco between the cheek and gum or upper lip teeth and chewing.
300 million people use smokeless tobacco, mainly in South & Southeast Asia, but limited research is driving global health inequalities🌏
Ahead of #WorldNoTobaccoDay, @jlivbanks.bsky.social's new Cochrane review outlines methods most likely to help people quit
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Herring gull (Peter F Wolf at Unsplash). Clarion reporters are appealing for anyone who knows whether it was in fact a herring gull or a black-headed gull to get in touch
The £75m Blavatnik School of Government on Walton Street, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, has been closed after an unexpected air strike by a hostile seagull. Events including a Heat Pump Summit next week have been rescheduled so that repairs can take place.
r/birdwatching u/FabulousCommittee602 • 1d saw one today. saw bird. outside Slight_Ad_3254 • 1d Is there a photo? FabulousCommittee602 OP • 1d no. flew away cbak9671 • 1d happens
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Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v
New paper - Recommendations for future research exploring vaping and later smoking in young people.
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The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: An overview of systematic reviews @jlivbanks.bsky.social @monserratconde.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @drnlindson.bsky.social @jhb19.bsky.social buff.ly/f0QgZD8
There's a good lad
I see where you're coming from, but if English manners didn't require constant and crippling second guessing of people's intentions and reactions then we'd run the risk of being a decisive and productive nation. That way lies a return to Empire, my friend.
Not convinced. I might offer but then still have hurt feelings. That's not their fault but it is their problem (in terms of escaping rudeness).
Wouldn't that be kinda rude? I mean, they did make you a pancake.
This is a Monty Hall thing, right?
We conducted an overview of reviews on the impacts of e-cigarette flavours. Non-tobacco flavours may increase appeal & harms; this may vary by flavour & apply across different populations. Impacts of flavours on e-cig and cigarette use are inconclusive. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Well if you'd taken the time to look for historical precedents, you'd know that...
New game: read out the memories your ChatGPT has about you, preceding each with "your outie is...".
Ripe with opportunity... And vitamins
Quite a fruitful topic for underwhelming puns.
Did you split straight after this photo? Or did it take a while to peel you away?
Bananas
A greyhound looks down his very long nose at you. There is nothing but contempt in his eyes.
My dog's judging you. Sorry for that.
And knowing there's nothing you can do either way
Received two press requests in one day (separate topics) and my immediate thought is that I'm being pranked by some transatlantic conspiracy. Do I need to work on my self esteem? Or tighten my tinfoil hat?
Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim
On the train upcountry: floods, a heron, data extraction. All just the right shade of grey. Hope London has coffee.
