disneyland to announce the return of beloved children's tobacco product "Mickey Sticks"
June 20, 2026 at 6:48 PM
disneyland to announce the return of beloved children's tobacco product "Mickey Sticks"
It seems that a lot of people in media encountered that 1969 tobacco company memo saying "doubt is our product" and decided it was a good motto to live by rather than a damning admission from a propagandist who was getting paid to kill people.
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs...
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs...
I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.
June 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It seems that a lot of people in media encountered that 1969 tobacco company memo saying "doubt is our product" and decided it was a good motto to live by rather than a damning admission from a propagandist who was getting paid to kill people.
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs...
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs...
I’m not prudish about many things but I do think it sucks ass for AEW to have a tobacco product as a major event sponsor
September 27, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I’m not prudish about many things but I do think it sucks ass for AEW to have a tobacco product as a major event sponsor
Now, when a tobacco company doesn't like an FDA regulation, it can just find some retailer in Texas—even a gas station that ostensibly wants to sell their product—then sue within the 5th Circuit, whose conservatives hate tobacco regulations. Totally undoes Congress' careful forum limitations.
June 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Now, when a tobacco company doesn't like an FDA regulation, it can just find some retailer in Texas—even a gas station that ostensibly wants to sell their product—then sue within the 5th Circuit, whose conservatives hate tobacco regulations. Totally undoes Congress' careful forum limitations.
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
🚭 Creating smoke-free environments
⚖️ Regulating packaging, labelling, and ingredients of tobacco products
🛑 Restricting tobacco product advertising
🔬 Investing €96 m in research and addiction prevention
Our goal: a tobacco-free generation by 2040! 💪
⚖️ Regulating packaging, labelling, and ingredients of tobacco products
🛑 Restricting tobacco product advertising
🔬 Investing €96 m in research and addiction prevention
Our goal: a tobacco-free generation by 2040! 💪
May 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🚭 Creating smoke-free environments
⚖️ Regulating packaging, labelling, and ingredients of tobacco products
🛑 Restricting tobacco product advertising
🔬 Investing €96 m in research and addiction prevention
Our goal: a tobacco-free generation by 2040! 💪
⚖️ Regulating packaging, labelling, and ingredients of tobacco products
🛑 Restricting tobacco product advertising
🔬 Investing €96 m in research and addiction prevention
Our goal: a tobacco-free generation by 2040! 💪
always good to compare your product to… tobacco. one of the mostly deadly substances in history.
AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief
AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief
Artificial intelligence will become smarter than ‘most or all humans in most or all ways’, says Dario Amodei
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Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or risk repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the chief executive of the AI startup Anthropic.
Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind the Claude chatbot, said he believed AI will become smarter than “most or all humans in most or all ways” and urged his peers to “call it as you see it”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
always good to compare your product to… tobacco. one of the mostly deadly substances in history.
Really looking forward to cigarette packs reading "Surgeon General's Warning: This product may be harmful unless you have looked the tobacco farmer in the eyes, touched his tobacco leaves, and made an informed decision as to whether you feel safe smoking tobacco from his farm."
“When it comes to .. raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.”
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Picks a ‘MAHA’ Movement Leader for Surgeon General
The president said he would nominate Dr. Casey Means, a California doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next surgeon general.
www.wsj.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Really looking forward to cigarette packs reading "Surgeon General's Warning: This product may be harmful unless you have looked the tobacco farmer in the eyes, touched his tobacco leaves, and made an informed decision as to whether you feel safe smoking tobacco from his farm."
The tobacco companies told me that smoking was part of a healthy breakfast. Who would know the product better than them?
April 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The tobacco companies told me that smoking was part of a healthy breakfast. Who would know the product better than them?
The tobacco industry continues to sell death & destruction by using flavors, packaging & advertising. Is there any “safe” product or consumption method? How does tobacco use harm your body?
Join us today in conversation with Simone St. Claire on Science in 5. #TobaccoExposed
Join us today in conversation with Simone St. Claire on Science in 5. #TobaccoExposed
WHO's Science in 5 - Exposing big tobacco: smoke and spin - 29 May 2025
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
youtu.be
June 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The tobacco industry continues to sell death & destruction by using flavors, packaging & advertising. Is there any “safe” product or consumption method? How does tobacco use harm your body?
Join us today in conversation with Simone St. Claire on Science in 5. #TobaccoExposed
Join us today in conversation with Simone St. Claire on Science in 5. #TobaccoExposed
A game about tobacco disinformation, Doubt Is Our Product. Coming soon.
Doubt Is Our Product Overview
Designer Amabel Holland introduces us to her upcoming game about tobacco disinformation, Doubt Is Our Product.
youtu.be
November 8, 2023 at 2:02 PM
A game about tobacco disinformation, Doubt Is Our Product. Coming soon.
Minister for tobacco sales sets aside $216m to subsidise tobacco product
Or about twice what we cut from feeding hungry school children
#nzpol #NewZealand
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Or about twice what we cut from feeding hungry school children
#nzpol #NewZealand
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Govt set aside $216m to pay for heated tobacco product tax cuts
A decision to slash excise tax for heated tobacco products - sold almost exclusively by one company in New Zealand - has come with a potentially hefty price tag.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 29, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Minister for tobacco sales sets aside $216m to subsidise tobacco product
Or about twice what we cut from feeding hungry school children
#nzpol #NewZealand
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Or about twice what we cut from feeding hungry school children
#nzpol #NewZealand
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
The Supreme Court's first decision is FDA v. RJ Reynolds Vapor. In a 7–2 opinion, Justice Barrett expands companies' ability to challenge FDA regulations of tobacco products in different circuits—including, here, the 5th Circuit.
Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Supreme Court's first decision is FDA v. RJ Reynolds Vapor. In a 7–2 opinion, Justice Barrett expands companies' ability to challenge FDA regulations of tobacco products in different circuits—including, here, the 5th Circuit.
Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Youth tobacco use just hit a 25-year low according to the CDC, “largely driven by the decline in high school e-cigarette use (from 10.0% to 7.8%)”
Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School ...
This report describes use of any tobacco product among middle and high school students from 2023 to 2024.
www.cdc.gov
October 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Youth tobacco use just hit a 25-year low according to the CDC, “largely driven by the decline in high school e-cigarette use (from 10.0% to 7.8%)”
Right… because the real problem was that big tobacco wasn’t “clear about risks” — not that they were selling an addictive product that harmed the health of both users and non-users.
AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief
AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief
Artificial intelligence will become smarter than ‘most or all humans in most or all ways’, says Dario Amodei
*
Business live – latest updates
Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or risk repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the chief executive of the AI startup Anthropic.
Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind the Claude chatbot, said he believed AI will become smarter than “most or all humans in most or all ways” and urged his peers to “call it as you see it”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Right… because the real problem was that big tobacco wasn’t “clear about risks” — not that they were selling an addictive product that harmed the health of both users and non-users.
British private education is a product with price inelasticity that rivals tobacco.
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
British private education is a product with price inelasticity that rivals tobacco.
Back in 70s, the Tobacco Industry realized that science was completely against them. So, they decided to go to war against science. Not just funding pro-tobacco "studies", but climate denial and anything else that was against scientific consensus.
"Doubt is our product" /1
"Doubt is our product" /1
March 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Back in 70s, the Tobacco Industry realized that science was completely against them. So, they decided to go to war against science. Not just funding pro-tobacco "studies", but climate denial and anything else that was against scientific consensus.
"Doubt is our product" /1
"Doubt is our product" /1
"we definitely need to worry about the rampant spread of medically regulated and professionally gatekept substances!", I say, with a tobacco product in my hand that I easily purchased with no medical examination
April 23, 2024 at 10:34 PM
"we definitely need to worry about the rampant spread of medically regulated and professionally gatekept substances!", I say, with a tobacco product in my hand that I easily purchased with no medical examination
We ran the National Youth Tobacco Survey, which is how we know that current tobacco use among HS students has declined dramatically over the last decade to 10.1% (cigarette smoking is at 1.7%!).. and how we know e-cigarettes the most common product used by kids. It’s how we monitor trends.
April 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
We ran the National Youth Tobacco Survey, which is how we know that current tobacco use among HS students has declined dramatically over the last decade to 10.1% (cigarette smoking is at 1.7%!).. and how we know e-cigarettes the most common product used by kids. It’s how we monitor trends.
finding someone to buy me a tobacco product with it
You just got out of school in 8th grade and find a fresh $20 bill on the ground. What's your next move?
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
finding someone to buy me a tobacco product with it
‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
In her work as an online safety campaigner, the baroness and Bridget Jones director has seen things she can never unsee – and she’s furious at the tech overlords doing nothing to stop the abuse
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
NPRM for proposed #FDA "Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted
Tobacco Products" will publish tomorrow.
This is a huge deal. Researchers, get your public comments ready... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
Tobacco Products" will publish tomorrow.
This is a huge deal. Researchers, get your public comments ready... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
Public Inspection: Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products
Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products
www.federalregister.gov
January 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NPRM for proposed #FDA "Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted
Tobacco Products" will publish tomorrow.
This is a huge deal. Researchers, get your public comments ready... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
Tobacco Products" will publish tomorrow.
This is a huge deal. Researchers, get your public comments ready... www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
$216m — Cabinet's contingency for Casey Costello's 50% heated-tobacco tax cut — could have funded school lunches at Labour's level for two years, or kept Kāhui Ako running instead of scrapping it. Cabinet's own paper admits consumers may see none of the tobacco benefit. #nzpol
Govt set aside $216m to pay for heated tobacco product tax cuts
The government has agreed to set aside $216 million it may need to pay for tax cuts for heated tobacco products (HTPs).
www.rnz.co.nz
August 23, 2026 at 8:00 PM
$216m — Cabinet's contingency for Casey Costello's 50% heated-tobacco tax cut — could have funded school lunches at Labour's level for two years, or kept Kāhui Ako running instead of scrapping it. Cabinet's own paper admits consumers may see none of the tobacco benefit. #nzpol
I don’t get it. If selling a dangerous product that kills people is a justification for military strikes, shouldn’t Trump also be going after American tobacco and alcohol companies? Oh yeah, and gun companies?
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I don’t get it. If selling a dangerous product that kills people is a justification for military strikes, shouldn’t Trump also be going after American tobacco and alcohol companies? Oh yeah, and gun companies?