WHO recommendations on ENDS and smokeless tobacco

[Vocalek]

This document contains the full text behind a "Poster" presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine and tobacco (SRNT) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Baltimore, MD, yesterday.

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241209557_eng.pdf

Pages 1-22 deal with the WHO Study Group on tobacco Product Regulation's opinion on "electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)."

Pages 23-38 (Section 3) discuss carcinogens in smokeless tobacco.

Pages 39-41 (Section 4) provide the overall recommendations on the two classes of products.

 

[AJMoore]

Am I misreading or was this study done in 2008?

WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation
Durban, South Africa, 12–14 November 2008

 

[dk2]

Well my understanding on the article is that the WHO wants more testing and want's manufactures/marketers to do the testing and to prove their claims of smoking cessation products or healthier alternatives to smoking and they want the products labeled as nicotine devices or delivery systems instead of tobacco products. If they are labeled as tobacco products they don't want their use in public places where smoking is prohibited until studies are done to prove that they are safe.


Here are my thoughts, I know e- cigarettes are safer than smoking tobacco it doesn't take an MD to figure this out; just common sense. As per smoking in public, if you want to ban it then WHO go out and prove that it's harmful. I don't like this attitude from the WHO of, "if it looks like a cigarette and delivers nicotine it must be bad for you".

There are only five or so ingredients in an e-cigarette, it would not cost much for the WHO to test e-liquid and e-cigarettes for safety. Don't write a 40 page article telling me that you want manufactures to test and prove their claims, do some research yourself.

 

[Tom09]

This document contains the full text behind a "Poster" presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Baltimore, MD, yesterday.

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241209557_eng.pdf

Pages 1-22 deal with the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation's opinion on "electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)."

Pages 23-38 (Section 3) discuss carcinogens in smokeless tobacco.

Pages 39-41 (Section 4) provide the overall recommendations on the two classes of products.

If you walk through the literature list of this "technical report", all you can find are exactly two reference relating to e-cigs: one is the WHO, September 2008, press release (calling marketers to halt therapy claims), the other a NYT, July 2009, article (multiplicating FDA’s toxic scare circus). No reference the actual FDA report (Westenberger 2009), certainly no mention of Laugesen’s results (as presented at SRNT 2009 conference - therefore known to the authors who are highly involved members of the tobacco control community).
So much for “the scientific basis of tobacco product regulation” and the stated objective of TobReg “to advise WHO about scientifically sound recommendations”. Opinion crafting disguised as science. Once again.