E305 – CLIVE BATES 2020-05-13
SHOW RUNDOWN AND LINKS
PART 1: WHO – TREACHERY ON VAPING
- January 20, 2020 (updated January 29, 2020): WHO Q&A, E-cigarettes
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/world-health-organization-e-cigarettes/
- E-cigarettes harmful to health
- Never-smoker minors who use ENDs at least double their chance of starting to smoke conventional tobacco cigarettes later in life
- Policy-makers should restrict advertising and flavors, prohibit ENDS where smoking is not permitted, prevent unproven health claims, protect health from commercial and other vested interests
- Unclear effective for smoking cessation
- See also WHO Twitter thread, with similar info: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1219618083645595650
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/world-health-organization-e-cigarettes/
- January 22, 2020: WHO warning on vaping draws harsh response from UK researchers
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/who-warning-on-vaping-draws-harsh-response-from-u-k-researchers/
- WHO has a history of activism
- No evidence highly addictive
- E-cigarettes clearly less harmful than tobacco
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/who-warning-on-vaping-draws-harsh-response-from-u-k-researchers/
- February 3, 2020: Is vaping dangerous or not? And is the World Health Organisation misrepresenting evidence?
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/is-vaping-dangerous-or-not-and-is-the-world-health-organisation-misrepresenting-evidence/
- E-cigarette warning seems more PR than medical science, and some doctors dispute it
- WHO: January 30, 2020: The counterfactual – World Health Organisation fails at science and fails at propaganda – the sad case of WHO’s anti-vaping Q&A
- https://www.clivebates.com/world-health-organisation-fails-at-science-and-fails-at-propaganda-the-sad-case-of-whos-anti-vaping-qa/
- Discusses WHO Q&A, including updates
- There are nine questions and every single answer provides false, misleading or simplistic information
- Goes through the nine questions posed by WHO
- https://www.clivebates.com/world-health-organisation-fails-at-science-and-fails-at-propaganda-the-sad-case-of-whos-anti-vaping-qa/
- March 24, 2020: WHO Q&A, Smoking and COVID-19 – STATEMENT
- https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-on-smoking-and-covid-19
- Smokers likely more vulnerable to COVID19
- More hand-mouth contact
- Lung disease or reduced lung capacity
- Transmission in communal settings
- https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-on-smoking-and-covid-19
- April 8, 2020: Trump is right: the rotten World Health Organisation should be reformed or abolished
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- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/trump-is-right-the-rotten-world-health-organisation-should-be-reformed-or-abolished/
- “On 21 January, as countries outside China were reporting their first cases, the WHO retreated to its comfort zone and put out a long Twitter thread about the dangers of vaping, including pseudo-scientific claims about e-cigarette fluid burning people’s skin and secondhand vapour posing a mortal threat to bystanders.”
- May 11, 2020: WHO statement: Tobacco use and COVID-19
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/who-statement-tobacco-use-and-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR1XDVnbb8XafOQqa2S1k_jjIdcPa6ofNDBpexuE8A8eRv4M4jRIB-56Vj0
- Smokers more likely to develop severe disease with COVID19
- Smoking impairs lung function, making in harder to fight COVID19
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/who-statement-tobacco-use-and-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR1XDVnbb8XafOQqa2S1k_jjIdcPa6ofNDBpexuE8A8eRv4M4jRIB-56Vj0
“WHO urges researchers, scientists and the media to be cautious about amplifying unproven claims that tobacco or nicotine could reduce the risk of COVID19. There is currently insufficient information to confirm any link between tobacco or nicotine in the prevention or treatment of COVID19.”
“WHO stresses the importance of ethically approved, high-quality, systematic research that will contribute to advancing individual and public health, emphasizing that promotion of unproven interventions could have a negative effect on health.”
PART 2: COVID/VAPING/NICOTINE – NEGATIVE
- March 6, 2020: Reduce your risk of serious lung disease caused by corona virus by quitting smoking and vaping
- March 9, 2020: Mayor DeBlasio: Smoking and vaping can increase the risk of coronavirus
- March 17, 2020: Coronavirus: Vaping in public places could lead to spread of condition
- March 21, 2020: Doctors say vaping could make coronavirus worse for young people
- March 27, 2020: Vaping Could Increase Health Risks Tied to COVID19, FDA Says
- May 1, 2020: Study: Men Dying from Coronavirus More Than Women Because of Cigarettes; Pandemic Tobacco Ban Needed?
- May 8, 2020: Smokers and Vapers May Be at Greater Risk for COVID-19
PART 3: COVID/VAPING/NICOTINE – POSITIVE
- April 22, 2020: French researchers to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients
- April 22, 2020: Clive Bates Tweet
- https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates/status/1252972281393025024
- Plausible hypotheses that nicotine is protective against more severe COVID-19 symptoms are emerging. They are consistent with case data showing smokers are strikingly underrepresented in hospitalizations. It is too soon to accept such theories, but they can’t be ignored either.
- April 22, 2020: A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications
- https://www.qeios.com/read/FXGQSB.2
- April 27, 2020: Does nicotine combat COVID19? French scientists to test theory as data shows pattern
- April 28, 2020: Why Are Smokers Being Hospitalized Less Often from Coronavirus?
- April 28, 2020: MORE evidence smoking may cut the risk of coronavirus
- May 1, 2020: Smokers seem less likely than non-smokers to fall ill with COVID19
- May 11, 2020: Where there’s smoke – the cigarettes-and-COVID story is growing harder to ignore
- May 11, 2020: Nicotine Could Prevent the Spread of COVID-19, Studies Suggest
- May 11, 2020: Clive Bates Tweet:
- https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates/status/1259942167537221632
- More on the possible protective role of nicotine in COVID-19. Tindle, Newhouse, Freiberg, Beyond Smoking Cessation: Investigating Medicinal Nicotine to Prevent and Treat COVID-19:
- May 8, 2020: Beyond Smoking Cessation: Investigation Medicinal Nicotine to Prevent and Treat COVID-19
- https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntaa077/5834599
PART 4 – YOUTH USE CANADA
- March 9, 2020: ‘We have a youth vaping crisis’: 1 in 3 teens have tried vaping, Statistics Canada finds
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/we-have-a-youth-vaping-crisis-1-in-3-teens-have-tried-vaping-statistics-canada-finds/
- Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey
- May 4, 2020: Changes in Prevalence of Vaping Among Youths in the United States, Canada, and England from 2017 to 2019
- May 5, 2020: Vaping among Canadian teens doubles in 2 years, new research shows
- May 7, 2020: High Nicotine Concentrations Lead to Higher Youth Vaping Rates in Canada
- https://regulatorwatch.com/reported_elsewhere/high-nicotine-concentrations-lead-to-higher-youth-vaping-rates-in-canada/
- CVA calls for nic cap and argues flavors are not the problem
PART 5 – NIC CAP
- May 7, 2020: CVA Tweet:
- https://twitter.com/thecvaofficial/status/1258446790225006593
- The CVA has called for the federal government to limit nicotine concentrations to 20 milligrams per millilitre. The rise in youth vaping rates in Canada directly correlates to the entrance of Big Tobacco vape brands, such as Juul and Vype.
- Clive Bates Reply:
- https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates/status/1258616367793664002
- Wow, that’s a reckless move from “vape advocates”. Juul etc have helped millions of smokers. It isn’t pro-vape shop, if that’s your reasoning: it is anti-category, anti-consumer, anti-competitive. Do this and don’t be surprised when regulators come for your favourite thing.
- May 12, 2020 – Vape shops regulated into closure now looked to as the solution
- Nic Cap: May 7, 2020: CVA Tweet:
- https://twitter.com/thecvaofficial/status/1258446790225006593
- The CVA has called for the federal government to limit nicotine concentrations to 20 milligrams per millilitre. The rise in youth vaping rates in Canada directly correlates to the entrance of Big Tobacco vape brands, such as Juul and Vype.
- Clive Bates Reply:
- https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates/status/1258616367793664002
- Wow, that’s a reckless move from “vape advocates”. Juul etc have helped millions of smokers. It isn’t pro-vape shop, if that’s your reasoning: it is anti-category, anti-consumer, anti-competitive. Do this and don’t be surprised when regulators come for your favourite thing.
PART 6- WRAP TOPICS
- FDA/EVALI (MORE INFO REQUEST): April 13, 2020: The counterfactual – US vaping lung injury outbreak was a public health fiasco or worse – comment to FDA
- https://www.clivebates.com/us-vaping-lung-injury-outbreak-was-a-public-health-fiasco-or-worse-comment-to-fda/
- Response to FDA request for information on “Vaping Products Associated With Lung Injuries”
- Post includes Clive’s “brief response to FDA’s call for information”
- Tobacco Control Rejects any Involvement by Tobacco Industry: April 20, 2020: Clive Bates Twitter thread
- https://twitter.com/Clive_Bates/status/1252173173774258176
- The bizarre lack of perspective and repugnant value system behind tobacco control opposition to tobacco companies using plant biotech to develop COVID-19 vaccines. They have their guiding principle: anything that in reality shows the principle is flawed has to be rejected.
- Challenges principle that there is a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry’s interest and public health policy interests
Tobacco control is a cult. A creepy unworldly sect, with an elaborate belief system, high-priests and shamans, sacred texts, pathological hatreds, child exploitation, intolerance of dissent, nourished by billion-dollar funding and concealed by the ornamentation of respectability.
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