WHO Tobacco Treaty Would Make It Harder For Smokers To Quit

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WHO tobacco Treaty Would Make It Harder For Smokers To Quit --- DR. GILBERT ROSS Medical and Executive Director, American Council on Science and Health

A good article for a change....

WHO Tobacco Treaty Will Make It Harder For Smokers To Quit | The Daily Caller

 

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Gil Ross awesome as always!

 

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I absolutely love this:

What’s going on here? Is there any valid rationale for the global antipathy among the authorities to what seems to be a public health miracle in the making? It depends on your definition of rational. Many of those now working in “big tobacco control” (formerly known as public health) are veterans of the tobacco wars of the last century and have a deeply-ingrained hatred of anything related to cigarettes, tobacco or nicotine (even e-cigs which merely resemble cigarettes, yet have no tobacco and emit no smoke). Politicians and city councils may buy into they mythology against e-cigs to preserve their lucrative tax receipts from cigarette sales and settlement-generated payments; some just crave electorate-rousing sound bites about “protecting our children’s health.”

The big nonprofits eagerly accept vast sums from the pharmaceutical companies whose nicotine-replacement products are threatened by effective cessation methods, while academics have built their careers on appearing to be so virulently anti-smoking that they pretend not to notice the difference between tobacco smoke and e-cig vapor.

It is one of the best summaries of our opponents and their reasoning I've seen yet. The only major thing the author left out is the portrayal of vaping in mainstream media, though perhaps he was shy to address this because he works for a media corporation... that is a forgivable omission.