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The obscure UN conflab that seeks to cut off the world from vaping and harm reduction
By Yaël Ossowski | Parliament Magazine While most popular attention this month has been on the vital discussions at the United Nation’s COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, there is an equally important UN conference happening in Geneva that also contemplates the fate of millions of lives. There are also questions on the importance of…
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WHO’s afraid of vaping
The war on vaping is a threat to public health (photo via vaping360) By Yaël Ossowski | spiked For the second time in two years, I sat in the public gallery at a United Nations conference in Geneva as a senior UN bureaucrat told us that all members of the media and public were to…
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Anti-Transparency On Display At COP7 Global Anti-Tobacco Conference
A Students For Liberty activist carries a protest sign at the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 7th Annual Conference of the Parties in New Delhi, India. DELHI – It’s only fitting that a conference dedicated to the eradication of smoking tobacco would be held in a city caked with smog pollution. Last…
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Tobacco Monitoring First Step To Increased Sin Industry Scrutiny
The World Health Organization is pulling out all the stops in its effort to turn public opinion against the tobacco industry. Its campaign will launch “monitoring centres” in cities across the world, tasked with unmasking the tactics of the tobacco industry and its attempts to “interfere” with public health policy. Using the image of a…