News Summary

• The WHO’s tobacco budget is just over US$1 billion, much of it provided by a normally wonderful philanthropist, Michael Bloomberg.
• But the WHO has been advertising it really needs US$9 billion to do its job properly: eliminate nicotine use.
• The WHO does not need this money.
• Regarding nicotine, it is a reactionary organization.
• It refuses to recognize the benefits of “new generation products”: e-cigarettes, oral pouches and heated tobacco products.
• These NGPs are reduced-harm products, much as cannabis is relative to opioids or near-beer to real beer.