tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post4209769471311618790..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: The EU's amen cornerChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-16042444302911234982013-02-18T01:33:42.513+00:002013-02-18T01:33:42.513+00:00As a consequence of this post, I read Clive Bates ...As a consequence of this post, I read Clive Bates and as a consequence the ASH briefing on e-cigs. We can criticize ASH for being rather late adopters and responding only to overwhelming pressure but the briefing is actually not bad. Did someone fire Deborah Arnott and replace her with a human? Ivan Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18364023294207490403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-59498113477640111152013-02-16T04:07:06.951+00:002013-02-16T04:07:06.951+00:00I find it strange that nobody highlights the elefa...I find it strange that nobody highlights the elefant in the room: The Tobacco directive is the work of the pharmaceutical industry.<br /><br />It will grant Big Pharma EU-monopoly on nicotine by banning the competitors: Swedish snus & E-cigs. The sole intention of the directive is protecting Nicorette- and Champix sales by keeping competitors out - while at the same time making the world a little more ugly for smokers.<br /><br />While not being present at the hearing themselves, the pharma industry is represented by their varoius front groups. None of these "main stakeholders" represents the public, of course. They are zealots, yes - but that's just Big Pharma's ordinary warfare in order to reach their political goals. They are paying and manipulating zealots to attack their enemies.<br /><br />The SmokeFree Partnership is a central zealot player. An EU-lobbying group, owned by several other groups, among these the European Respiratory Society. The conflicts of interest with Big pharma are substantial:<br /><br />http://www.tinyurl.dk/37227 <br /><br />According to the SmokeFree Partnership's own information they commissioned the SmokeFree Europe Conference with many high-ranked EU-ministers in 2005 and the subsequent report, "Lifting the Smokescreen" for Pfizer & GlaxoSmithKline: <br /><br />http://www.tinyurl.dk/37228<br /><br />This report was totally trashed in a 2008 scientific paper by French top smoking cessation guru, Dr. emeritus Robert Molimard. The report and the conference were important reasons to why smoking bans were imposed in many EU-countries.<br /><br />http://www.tinyurl.dk/37229<br /><br />To sum up, Big Pharma will get their way as long as their work behind the scenes are not revealed. They have clerverly manipulated the media and the public to believe the agenda is health - well, it is not. It's all about the money - and about Big Pharma's nicotine monopoly.<br /><br />Sorry for the long post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115971330333201180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-56988658158707795552013-02-15T17:25:30.699+00:002013-02-15T17:25:30.699+00:00And I have no doubt that the hall will be packed w...And I have no doubt that the hall will be packed with MEP Fellow-travelling Zealots.Junican https://www.blogger.com/profile/03405543859782362078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-52177182008016769362013-02-15T15:50:10.439+00:002013-02-15T15:50:10.439+00:00Dear Mr Snowdon
" ...such as the ban on ment...Dear Mr Snowdon<br /><br /><i>" ...such as the ban on menthol cigarettes, are petty, pointless ..."</i><br /><br />I am sure the pettiness is not pointless, nor the pointlessness petty - the whole point being to show that they can do what they want. More pointless legislation, regulation and decisions to follow, <i>ad nauseam</i>, with side orders of pettiness, vindictiveness and pure unadulterated indifference to those upon whom it is heaped.<br /><br />The third reich lasted 12 years, out of a promised thousand. The fourth reich has started its fifth decade, counting from the fall of the UK, and the selling into slavery of the British peoples*.<br /><br />DP<br /><br />* Retail slavery has been abolished, but not wholesale.DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17091133543566922745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-85389275999307231902013-02-15T11:54:43.101+00:002013-02-15T11:54:43.101+00:00Note that the ballots will be "by name",...Note that the ballots will be "by name", i.e. we will known who voted in favour and who voted against harm reduction. <br /><br />In any upcoming election in my country I will not give my vote to a party which exhibited poor or no support for harm reduction, because in my eyes this would be a crime which supersedes about everything else.Karl Fasbrackehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10413111410093492674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-1651243464312073062013-02-15T08:03:07.808+00:002013-02-15T08:03:07.808+00:00"Dr Jean King Director of Tobacco Control: In..."Dr Jean King Director of Tobacco Control: Interference by the tobacco industry in tobacco control policy"<br /><br />The art of twisting reality and of deceiving. I'd be surprised to learn that tobacco industry interferes in tobacco control policy other than to defend its legal rights in a free market. It's rather tobacco control that interferes in political matters.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16821473060642204067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-63113997311811408342013-02-15T07:57:27.290+00:002013-02-15T07:57:27.290+00:00Martina Pötschke-Langer is hiding her advocacy beh...Martina Pötschke-Langer is hiding her advocacy behind the more impressive and "neutral" job title of Head of the Unit of Cancer Prevention in the German Cancer Research Center. <br />But since 1999 she is advisor to the World Health Organization. In 2002 the Unit Cancer Prevention was designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control so that she is also Head of the WHO CC.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16821473060642204067noreply@blogger.com