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
Today saw a lot of media coverage over a new report from the World Health Organisation claiming: Number of males using tobacco globally on the decline, showing that government-led control efforts work to save lives, protect health, beat tobacco It further boasts that ... [P]ositively, the new report shows that the number of male tobacco users has stopped growing and is projected to decline by more than 1 million fewer male users come 2020 (or 1.091 billion) compared to 2018 levels, and 5 mill...| Dick Puddlecote
You'd think, wouldn't you, that the US governmental Food and Drugs Administration would be tasked with giving the public information based on rigorous and robust science. Sadly, you'd be wrong. This week - in the face of hysterical panic about youth use of e-cigs - they have produced a poster which they will be sending to every High School in America to be put up in school bathrooms. Now, let's put aside for a moment the laughable idiocy of showing kids the new risky fad that many of their pe...| Dick Puddlecote