Clive Bates criticizes and challenges WHO on e-cigs

[Bill Godshall]

Clive Bates: WHO position on ENDS – A critique of the use of science and communication of risk
WHO position on ENDS - a critique of the use of science and communication of risk - Nicotine Science and Policy
http://nicotinepolicy.net/documents/briefings/WHOpapercritique.pdf


This follows up on McNeill et al criticism of the WHO 2013 commissioned report on e-cigs in Addiction cited below a week ago. Please note that Robert West is the editor of Addiction, which issued the following press release.

Article in Addiction corrects and disproves first nine statements of a 2013 report commissioned by WHO e-cig prohibitionists (and published by AHA e-cig prohibitionists) written by UCSF propagandists that grossly misrepresented and misinterpreted the scientific and empirical evidence on e-cigs and public health.
WHO commissioned report on e-cigarettes misleading, say experts
Addiction Journal - Press Releases
A critique of a WHO-commissioned report and associated article on electronic cigarettes
A critique of a WHO-commissioned report and associated article on electronic cigarettes - McNeill - Addiction - Wiley Online Library

WHO gives misleading view on e-cigarettes, experts argue
WHO report gives misleading view on e-cigarettes, experts argue | Reuters

E-cigarettes could ‘save the lives of tens of thousands of smokers,’ claim scientists
E-cigarettes could 'save the lives of tens of thousands of smokers,' claim scientists | Mail Online

E-cigarettes could save over 50,000 lives in the UK, experts say
E-cigarettes could save over 50,000 lives in the UK, experts say | Society | The Guardian

‘Alarmist’ e-cig report attacked by tobacco health expert
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ttacked-by-tobacco-health-expert-9712703.html

E-cigarette criticisms ‘alarmist’ say researchers; Robert West criticizes WHO’s call for vaping bans, estimates e-cigs could prevent 54,000 of 60,000 smoking attributable deaths annually in the UK if all smokers switched
BBC News - E-cigarette criticisms 'alarmist' say researchers

E-Cigarette Debate: 12 minute BBC radio debate between public health advocate Robert West (who tells the truth about e-cigs) versus prohibitionist/propagandist John Ashton (who falsely claimed CDC data found that e-cigs are gateways to cigarettes for youth, and who repeated many other false fear mongering claims about e-cigs).
BBC World Service - Health Check, E-cigarette Debate

Also last week, Clive Bates - The Pharmaceutical Journal
Stop demonizing a potentially useful product for smokers
Compulsory regulation of electronic cigarettes could spoil a safe substitute for smoking.
Stop demonising a potentially useful product for smokers | Comment | Pharmaceutical Journal

 

[Nate760]

Of all the arguments against the "gateway to tobacco" canard (and there's no shortage of correct ones), I rarely hear anyone bring up the one that most directly and effectively refutes it: 1) young people have been smoking cigarettes ever since cigarettes have existed; 2) young people have continued to smoke cigarettes in spite of any and all legal roadblocks intended to prevent them from doing so; 3) it is impossible to argue that the existence of e-cigs is motivating young people to do something they were already doing anyway, and have been doing for well over a century.

 

[DrMA]

Thank you for posting this. I've been hoping Clive Bates would summarize his critique in a more formal medium than his blog.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Clive Bates strikes again against the WHO

Clive Bates: WHO position on ENDS – A critique of the use of science and communication of risk
WHO position on ENDS - a critique of the use of science and communication of risk - Nicotine Science and Policy
http://nicotinepolicy.net/documents/briefings/WHOpapercritique.pdf

 

[Bill Godshall]

Looks like UK e-cig opponent and WHO defender John Ashton has gone totally nuts, and is now beginning to be held accountable for his actions.

The new posting (below) by Clive Bates maybe his best yet.

UK Faculty of Public Health (of the Royal College of Physicians) protects cigarettes by restating disproved lies about e-cigs to confuse, scare and lobby to ban their use and ban/restrict their marketing, endorses WHO e-cig lies and prohibitionist policies.
http://www.shb.scot.nhs.uk/departments/healthimprovement/documents/sc-ecigarettes.pdf

Health chief steps down after crude 'e-cig' rant on Twitter: Professor stands aside after online attack on supporter of quitting aide
Health chief steps down after crude 'e-cig' rant on Twitter: Professor stands aside after online attack on supporter of quitting aide | This is Money

Clive Bates – Memo to public health grandees: vaping, vapers and you
Memo to public health grandees: vaping, vapers and you « The counterfactual

Save e-cigs sends letter to John Ashton about his lack of objectivity and his personal attacks on vapers
Faculty of Public Health | Save e-cigs

Mike Siegel: UK Professor and government health advisor – an e-cigarette opponent –
Steps down after crude verbal attacks on vapers
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/09/uk-professor-and-government-health.html

Rapid Responses to Ashton editorial in BMJ trashing e-cigs
Regulation of electronic cigarettes | The BMJ

 

[Bill Godshall]

Today, ASH UK issued a new survey on e-cig use by UK teens

New ASH UK survey finds regular use of e-cigs by children still rare
http://www.ash.org.uk/:new-survey-finds-regular-use-of-electronic-cigarettes-by-children-still-rare

 

[twgbonehead]

This one is key! (Thanks, BillG)

Clive Bates – Memo to public health grandees: vaping, vapers and you
Memo to public health grandees: vaping, vapers and you « The counterfactual