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*Association Vapers India (AVI) said: “These international NGOs directly fund government departments and state tobacco control programs, which shouldn't be allowed as receiving money directly from private entities creates massive conflict. “While India moves to tighten FCRA laws, these foreign NGOs and their local grantees have broken and continue to break laws - one of them, Burning Brain Society, is filing court cases with this money which violates FCRA norms. So entrenched is this cartel that when a government official questioned this foreign funding, he was promptly booted out and the bar on the errant NGO quickly lifted. Emboldened, these foreign NGOs are now proposing highly discriminatory policies like banning less harmful alternatives in developing nations but not in the West -- yes, in countries where harm prevention is vital as people have low access to healthcare.” | *Association Vapers India (AVI) said: “These international NGOs directly fund government departments and state tobacco control programs, which shouldn't be allowed as receiving money directly from private entities creates massive conflict. “While India moves to tighten FCRA laws, these foreign NGOs and their local grantees have broken and continue to break laws - one of them, Burning Brain Society, is filing court cases with this money which violates FCRA norms. So entrenched is this cartel that when a government official questioned this foreign funding, he was promptly booted out and the bar on the errant NGO quickly lifted. Emboldened, these foreign NGOs are now proposing highly discriminatory policies like banning less harmful alternatives in developing nations but not in the West -- yes, in countries where harm prevention is vital as people have low access to healthcare.” | ||
===2017 June 28 - [https://www.bloomberg.org/blog/public-health-team-qa-recent-wins-tobacco-control-globally-us/ Public Health Team Q&A: Recent wins in tobacco control globally and in the US]=== | |||
*Currently, the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use (BI) focuses on 10 priority countries (India, China, Brazil, Mexico, Viet Nam, Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Ukraine) and it supports the implementation of the WHO MPOWER policies – a set of evidence based policies such as smoke-free public places and advertising bans. Other areas of work include, holding the tobacco industry accountable, using global communications efforts to keep tobacco control on the global public health agenda, and further deepening support for tobacco taxes. | |||
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*[https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO&country_id=39&amount=&date_type=&date_from=&date_to=&viewall=View+All Bloomberg Initiative To Reduce Tobacco Use Grants Program - See "India"] (Note: On April 10, 2021 5:30am CST this link is not working. Reviewing the [https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/ main page], it works, but the links to "Previously Funded Projects" and "Bloomberg Initiative Partners" are no longer working.) | *[https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO&country_id=39&amount=&date_type=&date_from=&date_to=&viewall=View+All Bloomberg Initiative To Reduce Tobacco Use Grants Program - See "India"] (Note: On April 10, 2021 5:30am CST this link is not working. Reviewing the [https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/ main page], it works, but the links to "Previously Funded Projects" and "Bloomberg Initiative Partners" are no longer working.) | ||
*Monitoring and Exposing Tobacco Industry Malpractice and disseminating that information to the media, law-enforcers and decision-makers in India. Oct 2007 - Dec 2008 | *Monitoring and Exposing Tobacco Industry Malpractice and disseminating that information to the media, law-enforcers and decision-makers in India. Oct 2007 - Dec 2008 | ||
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==Latin America (Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean)== | ==Latin America (Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean)== | ||
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