WHO Director-General Margaret Chan urges FCTC COP-5 delegates to ban e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco

[Bill Godshall]

Addressing FCTC COP conference in Seoul, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan falsely claims health risks of tobacco are same as cigarette smoking, urges conferees to ban smokeless tobacco products and e-cigarettes, and to oppose the "enemy" tobacco industry that "behaves like a corrosive substance that can eat through, or seep through, any crack or fissure in the armour of our defences."
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"You have before you state-of-the art reports on recommended responses to smokeless tobacco products and electronic nicotine delivery systems. Again, industry is seeping through the cracks."

News article at

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43464&Cr=tobacco&Cr1=

 

[Vocalek]

Funny. That's how I would describe the behavior of the anti-tobacco industry.

 

[spicyed]

Funny. That's how I would describe the behavior of the anti-tobacco industry.

As with this gem too: "As we know from experience, the tobacco industry will challenge the best science, promote arguments that have nothing to do with the facts, and fund front groups to give these arguments a cloak of legitimacy. This industry will lobby lawmakers, woo the press and, now, fund plaintiffs to challenge legislation."

I guess "best science" is science altered to fit their preconceived notions.

 

[Fiamma]

As with this gem too: "As we know from experience, the tobacco industry will challenge the best science, promote arguments that have nothing to do with the facts, and fund front groups to give these arguments a cloak of legitimacy. This industry will lobby lawmakers, woo the press and, now, fund plaintiffs to challenge legislation."

Substitute the pharmaceutical industry for tobacco and they're talking about themselves. Fed by pharma money and our tax dollars.

 

[CJsKee]

Classic example of "psychological projection"