Today saw an announcement from the World Health Organisation that their biennial anti-nicotine shitfest has been postponed by a year. In light of the COVID-19 global pandemic and its impact on the conduct of international global conferences and travel, the Bureaus elected by COP8 and MOP1, after consulting the host country, have decided that convening the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO FCTC (COP9) and the Second Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol...| Dick Puddlecote
If you have half an hour to spare, you could do worse than watch the two excellent films by YouTuber Grimm Green embedded below Long-time readers here will remember the history of anti-smoking legislation and how it developed from an aspiration in the 1970s with the Godber Blueprint. Specifically: The 3rd World Conference on Smoking and Health (“The Worldwide Campaign Against Smoking”) was held in New York from June 2 June 5, 1975. Sir George [Godber, raging anti-smoking UK CMO,] noted...| Dick Puddlecote