Another ANTZ alphabet jumps on the banwagon

[AgentAnia]

Not at all surprising, but I post it here for the record:

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com...-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=35

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

I have to wonder which BP foundation up'ed their donation to them?

 

[AgentAnia]

I have to wonder which BP foundation up'ed their donation to them?

That's exactly what I thought on reading that! Aren't we a bunch of [informed] cynics?

 

[Uma]

They were recently granted $48 million dollars US$ 48 million in funding to extend The Union's fight against TB

then immediately jumped onto the banwagon.. From MDR-TB to E-cigarettes, The Union World Conference tackled challenges to lung health

homepage The Union

 

[AgentAnia]

Good sleuthing, Uma!

Since late 2006, The Union has played an active role in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce tobacco Use, working to implement tobacco control interventions in the countries with the highest burden of tobacco-related disease....

Could this be the very same Nanny Bloomberg we know and don't love?

And what have we here? (from the Union's website)

Partners in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use (BI)

Since 2007, The Union has worked closely with the following BI partners:
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Homepage
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation CDC Foundation |
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The World Health Organization WHO | World Health Organization
World Lung Foundation World Lung Foundation

A pretty roundup of the usual suspects, eh? I guess this answers our question about where the money came from, NorthofAtlanta...!

 

[Uma]

48 million dollars to spend in countries where 10 bucks is a months wages. Gee, I wonder where all the excess will be heading..

 

[Jay-dub]

"Electronic cigarette advertising levels have not been particularly high and it is not clear how substantial youth exposure to such advertising has been. Another plausible hypothesis is that it is not advertising of the product, but general exposure to the product through the media that has contributed to youth awareness of and experimentation with the product. For all we know, more youth saw Katherine Heigl vape on Letterman than have ever seen a Blu advertisement. (This is a testable hypothesis, by the way, but what is the point of testing it since a conclusion has already been drawn?)"

"This appears to be another example of tobacco control practitioners disseminating the answer to a question before we have conducted research to provide an evidence-based answer. Does the answer really matter? It appears not. It appears that a pre-determined ideology that opposes electronic cigarettes is leading us to draw conclusions on the product without evidence. The CDC has already disseminated the conclusions that e-cigarettes are a gateway to youth smoking and that advertising is responsible for this effect, even though there is absolutely no research on either question."

At least the article delves into how this issue is being decided in a political and ideological way. Better than most I've seen linked to.