WHO’s New Tobacco Guidelines Prioritize Ideology Over Public Health
By ignoring the benefit of non-combustible nicotine products in helping smokers quit, the WHO is jeopardizing public health.
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By ignoring the benefit of non-combustible nicotine products in helping smokers quit, the WHO is jeopardizing public health.
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Xi Jinping calls on countries to fund World Health Organization in address at agency’s annual summit.
In a statement Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the exclusion of Taiwan from the assembly, Meanwhile, more than 100 countries agreed to support an independent inquiry, but only at a later date, and only after wording their resolution to omit any focus on China’s role. China has pushed for a broader review of how countries addressed the pandemic, an idea the U.S. worried would shift the blame from China to the many states, including the U.S., that failed to contain the virus on their own soil. Washington backed the resolution because U.S. officials expect the investigation will still allow for a close review of how the virus emerged, and what steps China failed to take to contain it.
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