Wednesday
Jan082014
WHO and ASH call for more tobacco control measures
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 12:41 The number of smokers worldwide is increasing, say researchers.
Smoker numbers edge close to one billion (BBC News)
The BBC report includes a quote from Forest:
Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, said: "We support campaigns that educate people about the health risks of smoking.
"However, many tobacco control policies involve excessive restrictions on where people can smoke and the deliberate stigmatisation of millions of consumers worldwide."
He added: "Tobacco is a legal product and consumers should be treated with respect, not vilified or forced to quit through extreme and often illiberal regulation."
Reader Comments (4)
Amanda Sandford of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said: "As the overall number of smokers worldwide is still rising, this study shows how important it is for all countries to implement a range of tobacco control measures...
No, Amanda, what it shows is that the billions your lot have pissed up against the wall; the tens of thousands of businesses that you have destroyed with your bans; the hundreds of thousands of people whose jobs you've removed; the social lives that you have driven a wedge through; all those things and more were for nothing more than to feed you and your coterie of fanatics with endless funds and a sense of smug self-righteousness.
Apart from that, Tobacco Control has achieved nothing.
So ASH is still around then. I thought it had been disbanded due to the extinction of dinosaurs. Do these people not know that the High Command in the WHO have moved on to the denormalisation of ecigs? And that the focus has changed to alcohol? It is all in the WHO 'master plan' - tobacco, alcohol, exercise. Tobacco is sooo yesterday, dear.
Seriously, Government needs to think about the infiltration of the WHO into our national life. People like Sandford are working for a foreign government - the WHO, even if they don't know it. OUR UK economy and national wellbeing are being affected adversely by the actions of these foreign entities.
It is time that the PM set up an enquiry into these matters.
An increase in smoking in society is normally associated with an increase in wealth. For example in countries like Malawi the average daily wage is $2.00 and that is the cost of a packet cigarettes. So few poverty stricken countries have high levels of smoking.
It is the developing world like China where I would guess much of the growth comes from. Capitalism over the last 10-15 years has lifted a staggering 750 million Chinese out of absolute poverty.
This is turn has led to a rise in smoking with the disposable increased income. However China's longevity has risen the last 10 years from 70 to 75.
Smoking ironically is a sign of a healthier, longer lived society.
I have long-since retired from work and now I have retired from this Government -inspired attack on my personal freedoms. I brew my own beer and have had a fair degree of success with my very first tobacco crop. My harvest is now curing nicely and will soon be ready for shredding. I've learned a lot from my first attempts at growing my own baccy: cull all axillary shoots, hack-out all runners and provide the main stems with some very robust poles to support them. I mean 7' or 8' broom-handle thickness poles!
I'm leaving the tax-paying consumer group of our population, I'm going self-sufficient.