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https://www.neweurope.eu/article/world-health-organization-needs-urgent-reform-survive/
Rather than embracing innovation, WHO seems to have developed a collective allergy to innovative health solutions. For instance, at the forthcoming Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties (COP)7 international conference in India, WHO is trying to persuade countries that vaping of e-cigs should be regulated in the same way as conventional cigarettes, or possibly even banned.
Last year, Margaret Chan, declared that “all governments should ban e-cigarettes”.
This is a ludicrous suggestion given that Public Health England stated recently that e-cigarettes are 95% safer than using conventional cigarettes. The highly respected Royal College of Physicians agreed – saying that the long-term negative effects from e-cigs were “unlikely to exceed even 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco”.
In other words, over-regulating e-cigarettes will cause people to stick with conventional cigarettes instead of switching to reduced risk products. This is perverse and closed-mind thinking from WHO, and sympto-matic of the lack of clear direction and leadership.
Rather than embracing innovation, WHO seems to have developed a collective allergy to innovative health solutions. For instance, at the forthcoming Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties (COP)7 international conference in India, WHO is trying to persuade countries that vaping of e-cigs should be regulated in the same way as conventional cigarettes, or possibly even banned.
Last year, Margaret Chan, declared that “all governments should ban e-cigarettes”.
This is a ludicrous suggestion given that Public Health England stated recently that e-cigarettes are 95% safer than using conventional cigarettes. The highly respected Royal College of Physicians agreed – saying that the long-term negative effects from e-cigs were “unlikely to exceed even 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco”.
In other words, over-regulating e-cigarettes will cause people to stick with conventional cigarettes instead of switching to reduced risk products. This is perverse and closed-mind thinking from WHO, and sympto-matic of the lack of clear direction and leadership.