Warning: Beware of tobacco industry interests promoting ‘alternative nicotine products
Warning: Beware of tobacco industry interests promoting ‘alternative nicotine products’.
Cohen J. Big tobacco is trying to hide its greed behind ‘harm reduction’
17 March 2024.
Big tobacco is trying to hide its greed behind ‘harm reduction’
“Tobacco companies are now positioning themselves as staunch advocates of tobacco ‘harm reduction’ in the form of unregulated, commercially marketed electronic devices, some of which can deliver more nicotine than a whole pack of cigarettes….
Despite attempts to hijack yet another marketable phrase, the strategy behind true tobacco harm reduction is not the tobacco industry’s to spearhead. The motivation of these corporations is to sell more products. Do not mistake their distorted idea of “harm reduction” as anything more than that.”
Comment: In Thailand, recent news indicates the Thai Government will fund members of a Committee on Smoking to tour an e-cigarette company in China, even though the Thai Government presently bans the import of electronic cigarettes and health authorities support strictly prohibiting electronic cigarettes. On April 17, 2024, leaders of three Thai tobacco control organizations blasted this proposed trip as unnecessary since comparative approaches to regulating e-cigarettes in different countries are well documented without the Committee being given a trip to China to see e-cigarette production, a practice that is illegal in Thailand.
A special parliamentary committee tasked with studying appropriate laws and measures to control e-cigarettes faced criticism for its plan to visit a Chinese e-cigarette production factory.
— Thai Enquirer (@ThaiEnquirer) April 19, 2024
Critics, including the Health Professions Network for a Smoke-Free Thai Society,… pic.twitter.com/CjkujUltjH
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