President Derek Yach’s Statement on the WHO’s Global Tobacco Epidemic Report:
(July 27) Derek Yach offers his perspective on the WHO’s approach to tobacco control. Read more
Tobacco Harm Reduction: Time to Change Attitudes:
(July 21) The ideology around harm reduction is beginning to shift. Derek Yach compares the history of drug harm reduction to the challenges facing tobacco harm reduction advocates today. Read more
Why has the WHO FCTC failed to reduce adult smoking and its health impact?:
(June 18) Derek Yach delivers the 3rd Michael Russell keynote at 2021 Global Forum on Nicotine.
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Complements ongoing tobacco control efforts to accelerate quitting and switching to tobacco harm reduction products while understanding the individual smoker
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Aims to diversify tobacco-dependent economies, ensuring that smallholder farmers impacted by the declining demand for tobacco are supported to find sustainable alternative livelihoods
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Focuses on delivering change across the entire global tobacco industry and nicotine ecosystem
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Smoking is the world’s leading cause of preventable death
There are 8 million smoking-related deaths annually, killing more people than hiv/aids, malaria & tuberculosis combined.2
1. World Health Organization Tobacco Fact Sheet, 2020
2. World Health Organization. WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2019
3. Banks E, et al. Tobacco smoking and cause mortality in a large Australian Cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence. BMC MED, 2015
“@WHO continues to ramp up its efforts to destroy the one version of harm reduction whose potential far surpasses that of all others to reduce illness and save lives,” says Cliff Douglas the Director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network: https://filtermag.org/who-destroy-safer-nicotine-alternatives/
#Ecigarettes are one of the most thoroughly studied innovations in recent history. “The evidence has been clear for some time that, while not risk free, vaping is far less harmful than smoking."-@PHE_uk's tobacco control lead Martin Dockrell @SwitchFinder
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/e-cigarettes-very-effective-helping-153000935.html?guccounter=1
WHO reveals that in 20 years, they have failed to make meaningful progress to reduce #tobacco consumption. No matter how you spin it, there are still 1bn smokers worldwide. Derek Yach @swimdaily comments on @WHO's new report on the global tobacco epidemic: https://www.smokefreeworld.org/newsroom/president-derek-yachs-statement-on-the-whos-global-tobacco-epidemic-report/
Illicit cigarettes are dominating the low-income areas of #SouthAfrica, a direct result of the 2020 #tobacco and #alcoholban. Now tax revenue is plummeting, and crime is skyrocketing. David Janazzo explores the data in a new blog post: https://www.smokefreeworld.org/conflicting-signals-in-south-africa/
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