The anti vaping WHO is at it again and now claim e-cigarettes don’t help smokers quit, and should literally be chucked into the rubbish bin…
Even for this un-elected bunch of shysters the World Health Organization’s latest stop smoking campaign is really scraping the barrel of anti vaping poisonous propaganda.
I’ve touched on the WHO’s awfully managed Commit to Quit campaign a few times, but they’ve really upped the stakes as we get closer to the none event that is World No Tobacco Day.
I’ve lost count just how many times myself, fellow vape writers, advocacy groups, UK politicians and the world’s leading medical professionals have taken the WHO to task on its continued anti vaping stance…talk about banging my head on the keyboard…
OK…deep breath because here we go again.
According to the ‘experts‘ [lol] from this lofty ignorant organization, smokers should ignore vaping as a way to quit as it doesn’t work and offers what it considers to be the very best method as:
THE CAMPAIGN AIMS TO EMPOWER 100 MILLION TOBACCO USERS TO MAKE A QUIT ATTEMPT BY CREATING NETWORKS OF SUPPORT AND INCREASING ACCESS TO SERVICES PROVEN TO HELP TOBACCO USERS QUIT SUCCESSFULLY.
THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY SCALING-UP EXISTING SERVICES SUCH AS BRIEF ADVICE FROM HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND NATIONAL TOLL FREE QUIT LINES, AS WELL AS LAUNCHING INNOVATIVE SERVICES LIKE FLORENCE, WHO’S FIRST DIGITAL HEALTH WORKER, AND CHATBOT SUPPORT PROGRAMMES ON WHATSAPP AND VIBER.
TO TRULY HELP TOBACCO USERS QUIT, THEY NEED TO BE SUPPORTED WITH TRIED AND TESTED POLICIES AND INTERVENTIONS TO DRIVE DOWN THE DEMAND FOR TOBACCO.
In a word…bollox…
They forgot to mention how all this leads to filling the coffers of Big Pharma and filling their own bottomless pockets with ‘kick-backs‘ – ooops I mean of course ‘donations‘ – as stop smoking pills are pushed on the unwary…
Ssssh…don’t tell them about the side-effects…suicide and other stuff…
Not only that, the anti vaping WHO and it’s stop smoking campaigns are funded by Johnson and Johnson…yeah the big boys behind the Nicorette range of patches, gums and sprays that science has proven quite simply don’t work.
As I’ve said many times before, it’s funny how those flavours, and of course, nicotine are good, whilst those to do with vaping are bad!
Nothing to see here…no agenda…move along…
Look, we all know that a 20mg pod kit will stop most folk from smoking faster than you can say Florence the digital health worker chat bot…FFS…
Or come to that ringing up a bored Karen on a quit smoking ‘hotline‘ for ‘advice‘ on how to stub out the cancer sticks.
It gets better…or worse for the 11 billion plus smokers out there.
The WHO’s ‘big idea‘ – apart from cartoon characters, Karen’s on the end of a phone and ‘brief‘ meetings with advisors, is to raise tax on lit tobacco and create more smoke free zones…
*sighs*
Seems they’ve missed the number of smokers in say Australia where lit tobacco prices are astronomical, or indeed here in the UK where prices are high yet as I wrote recently, the 18 to 24 year-olds are taking up smoking in worrying numbers.
For a bunch of so called ‘world’s best medical experts‘ they don’t seem to have their collective sticky fingers on the pulse of anything by the look of it.
Though in truth not even the current WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is a medical doctor…makes you wonder how Ted got the job