Researchers at the University of South Carolina have been looking at Twitter again and decided harm reduction advocates are Big Tobacco shills or automated bots.
It is another example of limp logic and poor use of research funds targeted at dismissing future current and future contributions from the likes of Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave permission to the IQOS heated tobacco product to be marketed in the United States, stating that it could make claims to be a modified risk/reduced harm tobacco product (MRTP).
The decision was met with condemnation by tobacco controllers – who are referred to by the researchers as “the global health community”.
“We provide a preliminary analysis of Twitter conversations regarding the MRTP authorisation of IQOS by identifying the authors, valence towards the policy decision, source of cited link, and focused topic,” they write.
Dave Cross – Planet of the Vapes – 2022-01-18.