Any campaign which ultimately leads to more people continuing to smoke deadly combustible cigarettes would seem something that would be dreamt up in the smoke-filled back rooms of a tobacco company, and not by a supposed public health organization.
Despite actively working to undermine the most effective quit smoking tool presently available, the WHO maintains it is opposed to tobacco use, and in doing so points to its campaign for the "Plain packaging" of tobacco, which it claims would reduce smoking rates.
This claim is belied by more than 7 years of data from countries such as the UK, France, and Australia, which conclusively demonstrate that plain packaging has zero impact on tobacco consumption whatsoever.
The only demonstrated effect of plain packaging has been an explosion in illicit tobacco, as without the protections and security features packaging provides, producing black market counterfeit products is considerably easier.
Given the proven failure of plain packaging to reduce smoking rates, and the well documented successes of reduced risk devices, it is curious then why the WHO is promoting a policy that will protect tobacco interests, and keep people hooked on smoking, as well as provide a boon for state tobacco monopolies and illicit tobacco smugglers who are protected by plain packaging.
It's interesting to note then that the state-owned China Tobacco company is the world's largest manufacturer of tobacco, and would benefit the most from people continuing to smoke.
In much the same way as during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was revealed that the WHO's leadership was committed to protecting the Chinese Communist Party at the expense of the lives of hundreds of thousands, it certainly is curious that the biggest beneficiary of the WHO's crusade against vaping and for plain packaging would end up benefiting the Chinese Communist Party the most.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
WHO Peddles More Sham Science, Coddles Chinese Communist Party
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