Tobacco control's secret society
Friday, November 14, 2014 at 9:42 The November issue of Tobacco Reporter has an interesting feature about last month's COP6.
No surprise that Moscow was the venue for an event whose full title was the Soviet-sounding 'Sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control'.
Nor should anyone be surprised by what happened next:
Immediately following the opening remarks, the public was forced to leave the public gallery and prevented from observing discussions throughout the entire event.
On day two, the global health organisation banned all media, including those who received credentials from the FCTC. COP6 delegates then voted to raise cigarette tax rates, which the FCTC initially recommended to be set at 70 per cent, but chose to instead let the parties decide increases individually.
By the end of the week, the organisation had also recommended that all party members end all duty-free and tax-free sales of tobacco products, tax smokeless products at rates equal to combustible cigarettes and ban all types of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes.
Click here to access the full article. It starts on page 16.
PS. Tobacco Reporter publisher Elise Rasmussen features on this video, filmed at Forest's 35th anniversary party at Boisdale last week.
Reader Comments (3)
This isn't the nanny state, and it isn't the bully state. It's the molester state - power and authority imposing the unwanted on the defenceless...
Simon: I guess you mean Elise Rasmussen - not Rusmussen :)
Corrected, thank you!