WHO Wants Vaping to Be Banned For No Good Reason

[lindsayfox]

Here’s a good example of the mindless symbolism that various governmental and world bodies follow on an issue of great importance… the World Health Organization, WHO, wants governments to ban electronic cigarettes simply because they "undermine the denormalization of tobacco use". What's really interesting is that regular cigarettes will remain legal under WHO's proposal.

WHO’s strong position against e-cigarettes is not going to have the desired effect on public health simply because electronic cigarettes are not the villains that they make them out to be. They don’t contain tobacco and they have hardly any negative effects on health, especially when compared with regular cigarettes.

As a matter of fact, the powers seem to have ignored the fact that lots of people depend on e-cigarettes to quit smoking. The very fact that they mimic the action of smoking helps comfort their cravings and keeps them away from actual cigarettes.

Source: http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/26/who-says-vaping-must-be-banned-because-i

 

[Vocalek]

Translation: denormalization of tobacco use -> demonization of tobacco users.

 

[hifistud]

Gerry Stimson touched on this in last night's VT Talk:

 

[mwplefty]

Gerry Stimson touched on this in last night's VT Talk:

What time? At what hr-min-sec marker?

 

[hifistud]

it's referenced throughout

 

[Fiamma]

WHO really wants e cigs banned cause their big fat hidden payola comes from big pharma who suffers when people stop smoking cigarettes and start vaping. Their NRT's are ineffective and no longer necessary and where they really will bleed is the many and varied therapies for people who have serious illness related to smoking.

Tobacco and pharma have long had a symbiotic relationship, try to quit smoking with NRT's ... relapse...smoke cigarettes, repeat, repeat, repeat ad nauseum. Profits for both.

Now comes Lorillard with Blu. Tobacco may be tired of taking all the heat for tobacco cigarettes and pharma is now going to have to find another way. So they pay off Health Departments, the WHO et al to try hard to preserve their profit on their ineffective NRT's and the down the road gold when smokers get seriously ill.