@jonathanfoulds
Professor of Public Health Sciences & Psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey PA. (views are mine only). Mainly do research on tobacco, health and nicotine addiction. Scottish. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oYyjpUUAAAAJ&hl=e
In US high school students, past 30 day use of E-cigs is down from 27.5% in 2019 to 7.1% in 2025. 30D use of cigarettes is down from 5.8% (2019) to 1.8%. The % of US youth who have used any nicotine product in the past 30D is the lowest it has been since records began! (NYTS).
Snow-geese taking a peek at Messi scoring for Miami against DC United in front of 72,000 (humans) at M&T bank stadium in Baltimore this past weekend.
Ha, thanks Crissy.
Snow geese migration at Middle Creek PA
The snow geese migration is heating up in Central Pennsylvania.
"The simplest way of putting it is that cigarette smoke contains over 7,000 toxic chemicals that are absorbed by your body with each puff. Non-smoked nicotine products or not harmless, but they deliver far fewer chemicals" www.forsmarsh.com/mediap/what-...
"Owing to its efficacy, tolerability profile, and low cost, cytisine represents a valuable addition to the smoking cessation toolkit. However, this milestone came over half a century after an initial large-scale RCT demonstrated its efficacy. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Could you show the figures for current smoking and vaping. "Ever smoking etc" is on odd metric to focus on, as one cannot tell whether it mainly happened 5 years ago or yesterday.
Sanibel, Florida.
Oh YES!
Yes it does!
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Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the inclusion of cytisine in its Model List of Essential Medicines. Owing to its efficacy, tolerability profile, and low cost, cytisine represents a valuable addition to the smoking cessation toolkit. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
Fascinating presentation on generational shifts in nicotine use in England, from Professor Sarah Jackson of University College London. vimeo.com/showcase/120...
The moon over Annville PA last night.
They have made clear that it was never just about illegal immigration: they hate all immigrants.
Although the topic is not easy viewing, I recommend this series that is currently available on Netflix. It is hard not to see parallels with current events. Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6eI...
🎗️Today is World Cancer Day. The figure below shows the effect of cigarette smoking and cessation on risk of death from lung cancer. Cigarette smoking causes at least 15 types of cancer. #WorldCancerDay
The temperature hasn't risen above freezing for a week and isn't likely to for another 3 or more days.
This morning, Annville PA.
A few mornings ago, Annville Pennsylvania.
Nicotine boost during the puffing protocol ranged from 1.8 ng/ml to 41.7 ng/ml with an average of 16 ng/ml. Larger decreases in post-pre BOLD in the left posterior cingulate cortex were associated with increased nicotine boost levels. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41343353/
“Public health somehow has to get around the idea that you just need to quit on your own or with a med, because quite a lot of people are interested in using a less harmful nicotine product like pouches and reducing their smoking,” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
2 bald eagles in a field near Hershey where there was a dead deer.
Ben Lomond in the distance.
A snowy morning in Annville PA.
Different surveys of tobacco use provide different estimates. This is an excellent summary of differences between 3 large US surveys. "Regardless of product, the prevalence was higher in PATH followed by NHIS and TUS-CPS, in some cases by large percentages." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
