The World Bank has come up with an answer of sorts to criticism that Davos attendees were shy about taxing the rich: at least ensure that impoverished smokers pay up big time.Read More
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This year's World No Tobacco Day campaign is aiming to engage with 'stakeholders across multiple sectors'. But one significant stakeholder will no doubt not be included.Read More
Health advocates are right to be cautious in dealing with the tobacco industry, but too many red lines simply 'protect' them from engaging with fresh, workable harm reduction strategies.Read More
A story in The Guardian newspaper raises a peripheral question: Is the term 'thinktank' merely a misnomer? Read More
Philip Morris International’s Davos-launched report seems thought-provoking – it has 'consumers' wanting their governments to do better at solving major public health issues.Read More
Set against air pollution, tobacco smoking seems to be a minor problem since, with the rise in vaping, it is one that can be reduced significantly by ordinary people. Read More
A report by the World Health Organization that casually dumps all smokeless tobacco products in a basket marked nasvay will do more harm than good.Read More
The International Labour Organisation is under pressure to sever its links with the tobacco industry.Read More
The World Health Organization’s admission that nine out of 10 people around the world breathe polluted, toxic air could be interpreted as a mea culpa, but we are all to blame.Read More
The World Health Organization's refusal to engage with those it agrees with in principle but simply does not like seems to indicate that this is not a truly global organization.Read More
