{"id":616,"date":"2021-11-11T21:15:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccwva.wpengine.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2022-02-05T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T20:17:54","slug":"vapers-voices-heard-across-geneva-during-cop9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/vapers-voices-heard-across-geneva-during-cop9\/","title":{"rendered":"Vapers&#8217; Voices Heard Across Geneva During COP9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This week, the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance (WVA) electric pink \u2018Vape Bus\u2019, drove through the streets of Geneva, broadcasting the voices of vapers relaying personal stories on how vaping helped them quit smoking and change their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The WHO\u2019s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) COP9 is being currently held in Geneva. Its provisional agenda released on August 5th, had indicated that the health agency\u2019s report on emerging nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, had been postponed to the next convention taking place in 2 years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The WHO excludes vapers from COP9 discussions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In response to this, countless tobacco control experts have underlined the fact that the WHO seems disgracefully happy to keep brushing aside\u00a0the scientific evidence in favour of vaping as tobacco harm reduction tool.\u00a0Moreover, Executive Coordinator the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) Nancy Loucas had explained she believes that that discussions and decisions on safer nicotine alternatives will actually still be taking place at COP9, behind closed doors. \u201cIt\u2019s now clear, however, that was a complete pretence aimed at minimizing a growing backlash against the WHO\u2019s anti-vaping agenda,\u201d said Loucas.<\/p>\n<p>To this effect, a\u00a0global broadcast\u00a0hosting THR experts and consumer advocates for safer nicotine products, had been announced. The event is being held currently, in parallel with COP9. sCOPe is being currently simulcast on YouTube at\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/3aWBPxi\u00a0and on Facebook as of 12.00pm Hong Kong Time on Monday, 8 November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Counter events giving vapers a voice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The WVA is also doing its part. A press release by the group said that that not only has the WHO FCTC\u00a0excluded vapers from participating\u00a0in the COP 9\u00a0discussions,\u00a0but the WVA\u2019s demonstration was also quickly ejected from outside the WHO building.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came here today to make sure that vapers\u2019 voices are heard, and that vaping is at the forefront of smoking cessation policies worldwide. Vaping can save 200 million lives globally, and it is imperative that COP9 delegates understand the real-life stories of people who have been able to quit smoking thanks to vaping.<\/p>\n<p>We have brought our message to the WHO\u2019s front door and asked them to listen to our voice. COP9 delegates have the opportunity to make history and save lives IF they back vaping as a tool to beat smoking. Our message to them is clear: choose science and save lives,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 million smokers worldwide could switch to vaping, an alternative that is\u00a095% less harmful,\u00a0if governments adopted regulations that facilitate and encourage vaping as a means to quit smoking. The governments and health authorities of the UK, France, Canada and New Zealand have already done this. Yet the WHO has waged a \u201cwar on vaping\u201d, refusing to listen to the science. The World Vapers\u2019 Alliance is calling this week for the WHO and global leaders to start taking tobacco harm reduction seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a risk that global leaders at COP 9 \u2013 under pressure from anti-vaping activists \u2013 will push for the introduction of laws that would treat vaping the exact same as smoking. This would spell disaster for vapers, for smokers and for global public health. The best way we can beat smoking is to promote vaping as part of public health policies,\u201d Michael Landl concluded.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Originally published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vapingpost.com\/2021\/11\/11\/vapers-voices-heard-across-geneva-during-cop9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance (WVA) electric pink \u2018Vape Bus\u2019, drove through the streets of Geneva, broadcasting the voices of vapers relaying personal stories on how vaping helped them quit smoking and change their lives. The WHO\u2019s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) COP9 is being currently held in Geneva. 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