In this 7th session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (CCLAT) bringing together delegates from nearly every country around the world in New Delhi, India, a team of international experts warned that any attempt to limit the choice of e-cigarettes to consumers would be a huge mistake and risk inflicting untold damage to millions of smokers.
E-CIGARETTE AGRESSED WITHOUT REASON VALID AT COP7
To Riccardo Polosa, director of the Institute of Internal and Emergency Medicine at the University of Catania in Italy " Much of the campaign against e-cigarettes was driven by emotion and ideology with no real evidence"
Several studies have shown that electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), of which electronic cigarettes are the most common prototype, can help smokers to quit smoking and are significantly less harmful than combustible cigarettes. " In reality, no one dies of this product“Said R. Polosa.
The seventh session of the Conference of the Parties, which brought together the 180 Parties of the WHO FCTC, is being held in Greater Noida from November 7 to 12.
In a statement, Riccardo Polosa and his colleagues say " Rumors spread in the media mean that delegations from countries with little or no experience on the subject find themselves behind a program to ban ENDS". " We hope that these rumors are false and do not reflect the current climate and the real intentions of the WHO delegates to COP7. prevent and reduce the harms of smoking Added the statement.
Julian Morris, vice president of research at the Reason Foundation based in the United States, pointed out that smokers need to have a wide range of choices when it comes to reducing the harm of smoking.
Konstantinos Farsalinos, researcher at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, Greece, and Christopher Russell, a behavioral psychologist and principal investigator at the Center for Substance Use Research in Glasgow, Scotland, were also signatories to the proposed communiqué.
A COP7 IN A COUNTRY THAT HAS ALREADY PROHIBITED THE E-CIGARETTE IN NUMEROUS STATES
« Many states in India have banned the use of e-cigarettes without any evidence of their side effects"Said Morris, who co-wrote the newspaper" The Vapor Revolution: How Bottom Up Innovation is Saving Lives With economist Amir Ullah Khan.
To Julian Morris, it does not go wrong: " In India, there is virtually no data on the extent of electronic cigarette use. How can we therefore assess the impact of a product without data and without local monitoring?"
In their newspaper, Julian Morris et Amir Ullah Khan stated that experts who evaluated the vapor produced by heating e-liquid in a vaporizer found that it contained only a tiny fraction of the number of chemicals present in tobacco smoke, and it is worth noting that most of these chemicals are completely harmless.
The World Health Organization and its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control exert considerable influence on national tobacco policies in many countries and, therefore, the conference should include all stakeholders to encourage detailed deliberation. and transparent decision-makinge.
