War isn't that bad, smoking is!

[Lemwise]

So according to the WHO innocent people being killed in the Syrian civil war isn't that big of a deal. They'd rather see smoking rates go down. I wonder what kind of alternate reality they live in?
WHO EMRO | WHO Representative urges stronger tobacco control in Syria | Syria-events | Syrian Arab Republic

 

[Steelgirl]

shaking my head

 

[nclobo]

Speechless. So much wrong with that logic.

 

[NoFumus]

A bigger priority might be stopping aid shipments from smoking.

"People salvage goods from an aid convoy that was damaged during an airstrike in the rebel held area of al-Sakhour district of Aleppo."

 

[element77]

Holy ..... balls!! An administrative agenda doesn't rest for war. being at war, experiencing death and strife is no reason to turn our attention away from the risk tobacco consumption poses!
We get it, you say our children are dying in the street, but that's no excuse to light a cigarette... Try some of the science based methods for dealing with grief in a WHO approved approach.

 

[LaraC]

I added the words in brackets:

He [Syria's Deputy Minister of Health) added that the current crisis [war] cannot be an excuse for Syrians to endanger their lives [with tobacco].


The event featured presentation of poems, essays, and cartoon drawing by youths and school children to reflect the harmful effect of tobacco consumption.

 

[guambred]

"The truth is that shisha smoking is 20 times more dangerous than cigarette smoking, and shisha users are at risk for some of the same diseases as cigarette smokers such as oral cancer, lung and stomach cancer, cancer of the throat and impaired reproductive capacities.”


I'm curious, is there any validation to this claim, or is it just another "fact" they pulled out of their bungholes?

 

[Rossum]

"The truth is that shisha smoking is 20 times more dangerous than cigarette smoking, and shisha users are at risk for some of the same diseases as cigarette smokers such as oral cancer, lung and stomach cancer, cancer of the throat and impaired reproductive capacities.”

I'm curious, is there any validation to this claim, or is it just another "fact" they pulled out of their bungholes?

The latter.

If I had to guess why, I'd speculate it's because taxing shisha tobacco is rather more difficult than taxing cigarettes.

 

[CarolT]

Maybe WHO is blackmailing Syria... no persecution of smokers, no aid.

 

[DrMA]

So according to the WHO innocent people being killed in the Syrian civil war isn't that big of a deal. They'd rather see smoking rates go down. I wonder what kind of alternate reality they live in?
WHO EMRO | WHO Representative urges stronger tobacco control in Syria | Syria-events | Syrian Arab Republic

It is indeed confirmation that TobaccoConTrol is the largest, most heinous, and ongoing crime against humanity in history

 

[DC2]

Words. I have none.

 

[Vaslovik]

In war there are great profits to be made by the elites, so of course from their view war isn't bad at all, since they themselves will never have to fight it, only finance both sides for the profits to be made. On the other hand I am not about to believe they want to see the decline of smoking in view of the current war on vaping, which they are behind. At least they don't want to see smoking decline until they have a total monopoly on nicotine and have forced their gas station vapes on us all, filling them with all the same toxic chemicals they have been loading cigarettes with.

 

[Mossy]

I wonder if these people were actually born on this planet................totally disgusting individuals

 

[Yiana]

So according to the WHO innocent people being killed in the Syrian civil war isn't that big of a deal. They'd rather see smoking rates go down. I wonder what kind of alternate reality they live in?
WHO EMRO | WHO Representative urges stronger tobacco control in Syria | Syria-events | Syrian Arab Republic

The lunatics are running the asylum.

 

[Rossum]

I wonder if these people were actually born on this planet................totally disgusting individuals