The World Health Organisation lies about vaping on an epic scale

The deadly coronavirus that has infected hundreds of people in China and has now spread to the USA is the biggest global public health threat we have seen for some years. Naturally, therefore, the World Health Organisation spent yesterday putting out a series of deranged tweets about vaping. 

As I mentioned on Monday, US health agencies have finally accepted that last year's 'vaping-related' deaths were due to vitamin E acetate in illegal THC cartridges, not regular e-cigarettes. Ignoring the facts entirely, the anonymous charlatans in the WHO's tobacco division put out this tweet...

That was just one tweet in a thread that should end all discussion about whether the WHO is a credible source of information on e-cigarettes. There was was also this...

I know of no evidence that e-cigarettes cause either heart disease or lung disorders (the WHO certainly doesn't cite any). And e-cigarettes don't really 'expose' non-smokers to nicotine because the user's lungs absorb the nicotine - that is kind of the point - and nicotine isn't dangerous anyway.

Things got even crazier with this...

What can you say about the claim that vape juice burns the skin, other than that it just doesn't? Nor can it cause nicotine poisoning unless you drink a vast quantity of it (even then, you'd probably throw up).

Oh, and it is also not highly flammable. In fact, it's not flammable at all (I've tried).

One thing everybody can agree on - even clowns like Stanton Glantz - is that e-cigarettes are less hazardous to health than combustible cigarettes. Everybody except the WHO, that is, who think they could be more dangerous...

And they weren't finished yet...

Again, there is simply no evidence of harm and the WHO can't cite any.

The evidence shows that taxing e-cigarettes leads to more people smoking. This is unsurprising. The two products are substitutes for one another.
 
There's even more of this garbage if you look at the whole thread. Suzi Gage spotted the irony in this one...

LOL at the third one. https://t.co/weT94EKcdT

— Dr Suzi Gage (@soozaphone) January 21, 2020

This appallingly dishonest propaganda obviously runs contrary to the facts. It also runs contrary to the position of the British government, so surely it is time for the UK to stop funding the WHO's tobacco division (the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control). We are its biggest funder by far.

So much for soft power. The WHO is incapable of reform. Pull the money.

PS. Vaper-hating journalist Sarah Knapton is lapping it up.

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