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===Ethan A Nadelmann=== | ===Ethan A Nadelmann=== | ||
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*Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders] | *Source: [https://clivebates.com/documents/ExpertCommentsOnWHOMay2021.pdf Comments on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders] | ||
**It took WHO all too many years to embrace “harm reduction” thinking and policies vis a vis consumers of illicit drugs but it eventually did. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives, could have been saved if WHO had acted earlier to transcend the political forces and counterproductive ideologies and rhetoric that drove the war on drugs and its insistence on punitive abstinence-only policies. | **It took WHO all too many years to embrace “harm reduction” thinking and policies vis a vis consumers of illicit drugs but it eventually did. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of lives, could have been saved if WHO had acted earlier to transcend the political forces and counterproductive ideologies and rhetoric that drove the war on drugs and its insistence on punitive abstinence-only policies. | ||
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