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One of the developers of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control attacks the World Health Organization and describes its data as misleading Mix

* Coinciding with the holding of the tenth edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP10)

Amman – Shen, former head of the UK Smoking and Health Movement, one of the closely involved in the development of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and one of the founders of the Framework Convention Alliance, now known as the Global Tobacco Control Alliance, Dr. Clive D. Bates launched a sharp attack on the World Health Organization, accusing it of relying on misleading data that would do more harm than good if acted upon.

Dr. Bates’ attack on the World Health Organization coincides with the launch of the activities of the tenth edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which is currently being held in Panama and continues until February 9, 2024.

Commenting on the World Health Organization’s agenda scheduled to be presented during the conference, Betts said that the organization highlights the millions of annual deaths almost entirely (99.4%) as a result of smoking or passive smoking, while the organization ignores the opportunity to address the smoking issue by encouraging… Smokers should switch to alternatives that may be less harmful, namely smoke-free nicotine products. The organization inappropriately presents these products as a threat, explaining that the first paper of the World Health Organization is trying to distort tobacco policy using false information, such as incorrectly defining the classification of heated tobacco products as smoked tobacco products, and classifying heated tobacco spray as “smoke,” in While smoke is produced by the combustion process, heated tobacco products completely eliminate the combustion process, which makes them different from traditional cigarettes.

Dr. Bates explained that the second paper of the World Health Organization also contains multiple defects, including, for example, talk about the evidence to prove that these products are less harmful than others is not sufficient, while the level of aerosols resulting from alternative tobacco products. Lower levels of carbon dioxide and harmful chemicals, indicating that emissions from alternative products generally contain much fewer compounds than tobacco smoke, with an average reduction of up to 90% in harmful chemicals.

Dr. Bates confirmed that this issue was examined in the German courts in 2021 and in the Swedish courts in 2022, and the courts recognized that alternative tobacco products cannot be classified as traditional smoking products, noting at the same time that switching to alternative tobacco products is… It would significantly reduce the health risks resulting from smoking, which is the basis that prompted the US Food and Drug Administration to license these products on the market.

Bates explained that the World Health Organization refuses to deal with the evidence supporting alternative tobacco products under the allegations that most of the studies conducted on these products were conducted by companies that manufacture tobacco products. However, simply rejecting this evidence according to this standard is unscientific. He is naive, stressing that World Health Organization and anti-tobacco activists played an effective role in depriving millions of smokers of access to reduced-risk alternatives that could save their lives, by spreading misleading information that has no scientific or ethical basis.

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