Public health experts have slammed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) tobacco control accord for continuously excluding scientific and technological advancements in policy discussion.
Dr. Michael De Luca, a Disaster and Operational Medicine Fellow at The George Washington University, and Dr. Mario L. Ramirez, an Emergency Medicine Physician at Inova Fairfax Hospital, cautioned that the WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty would likely fail if modeled after the FCTC.
“The disparity in risk levels is immense, and this has been repeatedly demonstrated in numerous studies over the past decade. Scientific societies now acknowledge the significantly lower potential toxins in electronic cigarette aerosol compared to tobacco cigarette smoke,” he added. During the THR Summit Spain, which aimed to explore the impact of harm reduction strategies on smoking, Farsalinos participated as one of the panelists.The summit served as a platform to generate new proposals for addressing smoking-related issues and encouraged scientific, professional, technical, and political decision-makers to contribute their perspectives.
Farsalinos noted that while the WHO initially supported harm reduction approaches and strategies within the FCTC, the organization later shifted its focus from combating smoking to combating nicotine. Clive Bates, former director of Action on Smoking and Health UK and former advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, held the WHO accountable as an international non-governmental organization affiliated with the United Nations. He argued, “The member state countries sitting on its board should hold it accountable. The way the World Health Organization deals with smoking is akin to advising against using vaccines for COVID, based on perceived risks.
It also acknowledges significantly reduced exposure to harmful substances compared to smoking in terms of biomarkers for cancer, respiratory diseases, and cardiovascular diseases.
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