By Nick Powell in Panama The World Health Organisation’s conference on tobacco control has entered its second week in Panama by morphing from a COP (Conference of Parties) into a MOP (Meeting of Parties). In this guise, delegates include clinicians, health ministry representatives and NGO activists but oddly no tax experts or officials from finance […]
The World Health Organisation’s conference in Panama on tobacco control has been mired in disagreement and would not even condemn a delegate who spread the false allegation that vaping causes cancer. Despite this, there is every danger that the European Union will continue to toe the WHO’s line and conflate cigarettes with products that enable smokers to switch to much less dangerous substitutes, writes Political Editor Nick Powell.