Short 6.5 minute address for CRISA, Abuja, Nigeria October 27th. Panel hosted by Isaac Ogunkola Olushola with Clive Bates, Ethan Nadelmann and Essien Nsidibe
AtakanAbuja (kopia) – 01 – 01.mp4
The Professors video that he suggested I emphasise
2022 Prof. Nystrom on snus 25 min 500MB EXCELLENT.mp4
Professor Fredrik Nyström of Linköping recorded live interview on safer nicotine products based in his own science and take on the science made by others. Interview made in Brussels last week and latching on to and underpinning work by many other friends of science, not least the fab crew at Cochrane TAG. Credits where they are due to both EPHI and Brussels Times. As the whole afternoon is available publicly I assume that taking a truly seminal bit and making it more lightweight to function on LMIC smartphones is only a welcome addition. Enjoy!!
Publishing excerpt from public webinar broadcast from Brussels (who have notified intention of keeping cigarettes and RYO on the market as before but to completely blanket ban all forms of nicotine pouches, tobacco or non tobacco containing) today to celebrate snus in general, snus similars too, and all other SNP’s (Safer Nicotine Products but should probably have been referred to as VSNP’s as in Vastly Safer Nicotine Products instead) and to celebrate and acknowledge International Snus Day, yearly on October 24th. Professor Fredrik Nyström of Linköping is a unicorn professor in that he comes into the discussion very late, from a very unusual angle that has all the requisites for making his research truly valid and interestingly untouchably credible.
Enjoy a 24 minute truly informative and simple to get tête-a-tête in the studio on recent research into non combustible, i e purer forms, of nicotine in relation to other habits, lifestyle choices, dependencies etc. from a person I truly admire who has not had reason or chance to adopt offensive and defensive buzzword nomenclature used on both sides of the Tobacco Harm Reduction chasm/divide/canyon.
My personal reflection being something of a buff for the different versions of human rights based approaches to legislation and regulation on this and other substances and habits is the following: I can see a situation where Professor Nyström would look incredulous at the notion of Tobacco Harm Reduction in any way being elevated to a human rights issue, simply because the question is so much easier to answer than that. As THR seems clearly not to be harmful on the level that is even relevant within the mandate and remit of public health; it is simply a question of either promoting safer choices to end smoking as accelerated fast speed as perfectly possible and doable, or pursue policy routes that clearly are idiotic in the extreme or potentially maniacally homicidal to human equivalent of 50 cents on the dollar. This easy to evaluate as the outcomes for continued smoking combustible tobacco are so very well known, as are the outcomes for using at least some of the available product categories of SNPs consistently for a century before and a century side by side the commercial industrially produced cigarette. For little Sweden in 2010-2014 the calculated yearly difference in fatalities between smoking combustibles and using SNPs was 12000:0<1
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