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===2023: [https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/tobacco-control/ Open Philanthropy - Tobacco Control ]=== | |||
*"Legal aid. One strategy outside the MPOWER framework is training legal experts to write better policies and fight against the tobacco industry lobby. There are some organizations working on this. The Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund, which is funded by both Bloomberg and Gates, provides resources to LMICs to pass tobacco control laws. The McCabe Centre in Australia trains government lawyers and policymakers to advance tobacco control laws. I did not find any estimates of how much funding is spent on legal aid, so I am unsure how much this space would benefit from additional funding." | |||
*"The Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies are two of the largest funders in this space. Gates mainly funds tobacco control in Africa, while Bloomberg focuses on large, mainly Asian countries." | |||
===2015: [https://www.bbc.com/news/health-31944575 New global fund to help countries defend tobacco control]=== | |||
===2014: [https://www.uicc.org/news/law-and-cancer-workshop-big-success Law and Cancer workshop a big success]=== | |||
*"...with a focus on regulating risk factors, particularly tobacco use through the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control." | |||
*"The workshop was primarily supported by grants from...and the Bloomberg Philanthropies." | |||
===2008 - 2013: [https://www.cancervic.org.au/research/behavioural/major-topics-projects/tobacco/pre-testing-and-evaluation-of-mass-media-communications-in-low-and-middle-income-countries.html Pre-testing and evaluation of mass media communications in low and middle income countries]=== | |||
*Funding: Bloomberg Philanthropies via the World Lung Foundation | |||
==Bangladesh== | ==Bangladesh== | ||
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*Grants cover several years. Most of the recipients received more than 1 grant. Grants recipients include: | *Grants cover several years. Most of the recipients received more than 1 grant. Grants recipients include: | ||
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20210126202051/https://aid-bd.org/ Action in Development - AID] | **[https://web.archive.org/web/20210126202051/https://aid-bd.org/ Action in Development - AID] | ||
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20201229013705/https://www.aclabbd.org/ Alliance for Co-operation and Legal Aid Bangladesh (ACLAB | ***AID Foundation initiated its Tobacco Control project in 2007. Since then, it has been working on tobacco control field with the financial and technical support of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, France since2009. Now the following project for regulating the retail sales of tobacco products through licensing and TAPS Bans is being implemented in a national context. [https://aid-bd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/annual-report19.pdf (2019 Annual Report)] | ||
**Association for Community Development (ACD) | **[https://web.archive.org/web/20201229013705/https://www.aclabbd.org/ Alliance for Co-operation and Legal Aid Bangladesh] [http://www.aclabbd.org/ ACLAB] | ||
***ACLAB has established working partnership with Ministries of Education, Health & Family Welfare, Social Welfare, Women and Child Affairs, Labor and Manpower, Local Government, Information and Communication and also Bangladesh Bank, World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UNICEF, Winrock International, ILO, SDC, JSDF, NGO Foundation, BRAC, BNNRC, PIACT Bangladesh, DORP, Aparajeyo Bangladesh, HASAB, Bloomberg Philanthropies and International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>), Winrock International, CSA for SUN, BD. In implementing development projects, ACLAB focuses on building networking & linkage with GO, NGOs, CSOs, CBOs and private sector. Good relationship is maintained with the local Government bodies, officials from law enforcers and other Government departments, local informal leaders, journalists, religious leaders, civil society representatives and community people. | |||
****ACLAB 2015 Annual Report [https://sites.google.com/site/aclabannualreport/tobacco-control-program-ch18 Ch. 18 - Tobacco Control] | |||
**[https://acdbd.org/ Association for Community Development (ACD)] | |||
***Current and Past Donors include [https://acdbd.org/donors-partners/ Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies] | |||
**Bangladesh Health Foundation | **Bangladesh Health Foundation | ||
**Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA) | **Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA) | ||
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**Healthbridge | **Healthbridge | ||
**[https://www.hdrc-bd.com/ Human Development Research Centre (HDRC)] | **[https://www.hdrc-bd.com/ Human Development Research Centre (HDRC)] | ||
***2012 to 2015 - [https://www.hdrc-bd.com/advocacy/?hilite=%27Tobacco%27 HDRC’s advocacy has facilitated in increasing the price of harmful tobacco products] | |||
****HDRC conducted series of research-based studies advocacies with towards an effective tobacco taxation in Bangladesh. This was supported by Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> | |||
****The MPs were continuously sensitized in one-to-one basis. As a result of those sensitization activities, a good number of MPs issued DO letters to National Board of Revenue in favor of increasing tax on all tobacco products. | |||
****The concerted efforts of HDRC—ensuring proactive participation of the active tobacco control groups in Bangladesh—pursued the government to revise the tax structure which significantly increased the price of the tobacco products. | |||
***2015 - [https://www.hdrc-bd.com/developing-advocacy-material-for-policy-makers-in-the-national-parliament-for-an-effective-tobacco-tax-system-in-bangladesh-conducted-for-ctfk-and-bloomberg-philanthropies-year-2015/?hilite=%27Bloomberg%27 DEVELOPING ADVOCACY MATERIAL FOR POLICY MAKERS IN THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT FOR AN EFFECTIVE TOBACCO-TAX SYSTEM IN BANGLADESH, CONDUCTED FOR <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> AND BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES (YEAR 2015)] | |||
****Note: Not in English | |||
***2015 - [https://www.hdrc-bd.com/developing-advocacy-material-for-revised-tobacco-tax-system-in-bangladesh-conducted-for-ctfk-and-bloomberg-philanthropies-year-2015/?hilite=%27Bloomberg%27 DEVELOPING ADVOCACY MATERIAL FOR REVISED TOBACCO-TAX SYSTEM IN BANGLADESH, CONDUCTED FOR <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> AND BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES (YEAR 2015)] | |||
****Tax and Policy suggestions | |||
****Keywords: Human Development Research Centre, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids , <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> | |||
***2015 - [https://www.hdrc-bd.com/developing-a-proposed-tobacco-tax-policy-2015-for-bangladesh-conducted-for-ctfk-and-bloomberg-philanthropies-year-2015/?hilite=%27Bloomberg%27 DEVELOPING A PROPOSED TOBACCO-TAX POLICY 2015 FOR BANGLADESH, CONDUCTED FOR <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> AND BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES (YEAR 2015)] | |||
****Keywords: Human Development Research Centre, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2013 - [https://www.hdrc-bd.com/advocacy-for-effective-tobacco-taxation-in-bangladesh-conducted-for-campaign-for-tobacco-free-kids-conducted-for-campaign-for-tobacco-free-kids-year-2013/?hilite=%27Campaign%27%2C%27Tobacco%27%2C%27Free%27%2C%27Kids%27 ADVOCACY FOR EFFECTIVE TOBACCO TAXATION IN BANGLADESH, CONDUCTED FOR CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>)] | |||
****The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Taxation in Bangladesh | |||
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20201025054854/http://www.natabbd.org/ National Anti Tuberculosis (TB) Association of Bangladesh (NATAB)] | **[https://web.archive.org/web/20201025054854/http://www.natabbd.org/ National Anti Tuberculosis (TB) Association of Bangladesh (NATAB)] | ||
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20201026044021/http://nhf.org.bd/ National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh] | **[https://web.archive.org/web/20201026044021/http://nhf.org.bd/ National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh] | ||
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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20201126071712/http://www.wbbtrust.org/ Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust] | **[https://web.archive.org/web/20201126071712/http://www.wbbtrust.org/ Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust] | ||
**[http://ypsa.org/ Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)] | **[http://ypsa.org/ Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)] | ||
***2017-2018 - 1st August 2017 to 31st October 2018 (Phase 5) - [http://ypsa.org/smoke-free-local-government-and-public-spaces/?fbclid=IwAR37NCIiRk882YDuFxQADN37vbyl-76Pn16WWPJDlartK62-wrIvcTsfiLo Smoke Free Local Government and Public Spaces] | |||
****Supported by: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> & Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2018 Aug - [http://ypsa.org/2018/08/ypsa-participated-in-bangladesh-tobacco-control-leadership-program-in-coxs-bazar/ YPSA participated in Bangladesh Tobacco Control Leadership Program in Cox’s Bazar] | |||
****Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bangladesh Center for Communication program jointly organized the Bangladesh Tobacco control leadership program from 28th July to 2nd August at Ocean Paradise Hotel, Cox’s Bazar. Around 80 participants from anti tobacco organizations, government officials, media representatives and anti tobacco activists across the country participated in the program. | |||
***2018 Aug - [http://ypsa.org/2018/08/meeting-with-ministry-of-local-government-rural-development-cooperatives-held-in-dhaka/ Meeting with Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives held in Dhaka] | |||
****The meeting was organized by Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, initiated by YPSA, DAM, ACD and AID Foundation and supported by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">'''CTFK'''</span>, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> & Bloomberg Philanthropies. | |||
****Md. Khairul Alam Sheikh, Coordinator (Joint Secretary), National Tobacco Control Cell, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare shared a presentation on “Tobacco Control in Bangladesh and Local Governments Roles & Responsibilities.” | |||
***2015-2017 - 15th April 2015 to 14th April 2017 (24 months) - [http://ypsa.org/smoke-free-local-government-and-public-spaces/?fbclid=IwAR37NCIiRk882YDuFxQADN37vbyl-76Pn16WWPJDlartK62-wrIvcTsfiLo Smoke Free Local Government and Public Spaces] | |||
****Supported by: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> & Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2017 Mar - [http://ypsa.org/2017/03/ypsa-organized-workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-in-noakhali/ YPSA organized workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Noakhali”] | |||
****YPSA and ABSA jointly organized a workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Noakhali” with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2017 Feb - [http://ypsa.org/2017/02/tobacco-control-issue-to-incorporate-as-agenda-in-mcm-deputy-commissioner-of-comilla/ Tobacco control issue to incorporate as agenda in MCM – Deputy Commissioner of Comilla] | |||
****YPSA and Shristi Somaj Kollan Sangstha jointly organized a workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Comilla” with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2017 Feb - [http://ypsa.org/2017/02/workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-in-chittagong-held-with-government-officials/ Workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Chittagong” held with government officials] | |||
****YPSA organized a workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Chittagong” with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2017 Feb - [http://ypsa.org/2017/02/workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-in-rangamati-held-with-government-officials/ Workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Rangamati” held with government officials] | |||
****YPSA organized a workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Rangamati” with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2016 Sep - [http://ypsa.org/2016/09/workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-in-lakshmipur-held-with-government-officials/ Workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Lakshmipur” held with government officials] | |||
****YPSA, GEMS and DC Office of Lakshmipur district jointly organized a workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Lakshmipur” with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2016 Apr - [http://ypsa.org/2016/04/workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-in-brahmanbaria-held/ Workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Brahmanbaria” held] | |||
****YPSA and DC Office of Brahmanbaria district jointly organized a workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Brahmanbaria” with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2016 Jan - [http://ypsa.org/2016/01/workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-held-in-coxs-bazar/ Workshop on Implementation of Tobacco Control Law held in Cox’s Bazar] | |||
****PSA and DC Office of Cox’s Bazar district jointly organized a workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Cox’s Bazar” for the government officials with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2015 Dec - [http://ypsa.org/2015/12/workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-held-with-government-officials-in-feni/ Workshop on Implementation of Tobacco Control Law held with government officials in Feni] | |||
****YPSA organized a workshop on Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Feni with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2015 Dec - [http://ypsa.org/2015/12/workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-in-khagrachari-held/ Workshop on Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Khagrachari held] | |||
****YPSA and Civil surgeon Office of Khagrachari district jointly organized a workshop on Implementation of Tobacco Control Law in Khagrachari with the assistance of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies | |||
***2015 Oct - [http://ypsa.org/2015/10/representatives-from-us-based-organization-ctfk-met-mayor-of-chittagong-city-corporation/ Representatives from US based organization <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> met mayor of Chittagong City Corporation] | |||
****10 million BDT has been allocated in the current fiscal year’s budget for tobacco control initiative. Said mayor of Chittagong City Corporation AZM Nasir Uddin in a courtesy meeting with the representatives of US based organizations Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Bloomberg Initiative (BI) and leading NGO of Chittagong YPSA. | |||
***2015 Oct - [http://ypsa.org/2015/10/symposium-on-global-tobacco-control-titled-learning-from-the-experts-a-course-for-healthcare-professionals-held/ Symposium on Global Tobacco Control titled “Learning from the Experts: A Course for Healthcare Professionals” held] | |||
****The leading social development organisation of Chittagong, YPSA and Dhaka based organisation, BCCP (Bangladesh Center for Communication Program) jointly organized a symposium on Global Tobacco Control titled as “Learning from the Experts: A Course for Healthcare Professionals” on 11th October’15, in Southern Medical College and Hospital, Chittagong. The event has described a free, online training program called “Global Tobacco Control: Learning from the Experts.” to the participants of the symposium. The Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH-IGTC), a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, introduced this web-based training program. | |||
***2014 Nov - [http://ypsa.org/2014/11/divisional-workshop-on-implementation-of-tobacco-control-law-held-in-coxs-bazar/ Divisional workshop on “Implementation of Tobacco Control Law” held in Cox’s Bazar] | |||
****The workshop was organized by Chittagong Divisional Commissioner Office with the support of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Bloomberg Philanthropies and YPSA. | |||
***2011 Dec - [http://ypsa.org/2011/12/khagrachori-pouroshova-set-to-prepare-the-smokefree-guideline/ KhagraChori Pouroshova set to prepare the smokefree guideline] | |||
****The training were arranged by YPSA with the support of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Initiatives (BI). | |||
***2011 Dec - [http://ypsa.org/2011/12/nowakhali-pouroshova-declared-as-smoke-free/ Nowakhali Pouroshova declared as Smoke Free] | |||
****The training was arranged with the support of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Initiatives (BI), in cooperation with a local organisation named ABSA | |||
***2011 Aug - [http://ypsa.org/2011/08/civil-surgeon-office-of-brahmanbaria-declared-100-smoke-free-workplace/ Civil Surgeon Office of Brahmanbaria declared “100% Smoke Free Workplace”] | |||
****The meeting was organized by YPSA with the support of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Initiative. | |||
***2011 Jul - [http://ypsa.org/2011/08/smoke-free-coalition-formed-in-laxmipur/ Smoke free coalition formed in Laxmipur] | |||
****The meeting was organized by YPSA with the support of and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>Bloomberg Initiative. | |||
***2010 Dec - [http://ypsa.org/2010/12/chittagong-city-corporation-has-declared-smoke-free-by-the-mayor-mr-mohammed-manjur-alam/ Chittagong City Corporation has declared smoke free by the mayor, Mr. Mohammed Manjur Alam] | |||
****The meeting was held at Abdul Sattar Auditorium of Chittagong City corporation office on 6th December 2010 with the assistance of Bloomberg Initiatives and Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>. | |||
***2010 Aug - [http://ypsa.org/2010/08/ypsas-participation-in-the-2010-global-tobacco-control-leadership-program-in-baltimore-usa/ YPSA’s Participation in the 2010 Global Tobacco Control Leadership Program in Baltimore, USA] | |||
****The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), Baltimore, USA has organized 5th Annual Global Tobacco Control Leadership Program, a two week leadership training program from 19th to 30th July 2010 to build effective capacity for tobacco control. As part of the Bloomberg Initiative, the 2010 Leadership Program aims to build leaders in countries experiencing the greatest burden of disease from tobacco use. | |||
***2010 May - [http://ypsa.org/2010/05/bangladesh-2nd-sub-national-smoke-free-project-workshop-ended/ Bangladesh 2nd Sub-National Smoke-Free Project Workshop ended] | |||
****YPSA and PROGGA jointly arranged the 2nd Sub-National workshop, three day long, on Smoke Free issue titled as “Bangladesh 2nd Sub-National Smoke-Free Project Workshop” in Chittagong on 17th to 19th May, 2010 which is supported by Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Initiatives. | |||
****The workshop was addressed by the honorable Deputy Secretary (<span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOH&FW) Mr. Md. Rafiqul Islam Sarker, and Senior Assistant Secretary (<span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>) Ms. Nasrin Mukti, Coordinator of National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC) Dr. Iqbal Kabir from MOH&FW, Director-Grants of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> Ms. Pamela Sumner Coffey, CEO of BCCP Mr. Mohammad Shahjahan, Technical Consultant of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> Mr. Md. Akramul Islam, Program Officer of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> Ms. Anu Khanal, Research Assistant Ms. Hema, Chief Executive of YPSA Md. Arifur Rahman, Chairman of PROGGA were addressing the opening session of the workshop. The workshop is participated by the representatives from different organizations from all over the country who are working on Smoke free issue. The organizations are: WBB Trust, ACLAB, AID, ACD, SCOPE, NATAB, Shimantik, RAAC/AID, YPSA and PROGGA | |||
***2010 Mar - [http://ypsa.org/2010/03/orientation-workshop-on-smoke-free-policy-held-in-comilla/ Orientation Workshop on Smoke Free Policy held in Comilla] | |||
****YPSA organized a Orientation Workshop on Smoke Free Policy in Comilla on 1st March with the assistance of Bloomberg Initiatives and Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>. | |||
***2010 Jan - [http://ypsa.org/2010/01/course-on-management-and-leadership-accomplished-in-india/ Course on Management and Leadership accomplished in India] | |||
****<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> organized a Course on Management and Leadership from 11th to 18th January held in Bhubaneswar, Urissa, India with the assistance from Bloomberg Philanthropies. A total of 23 participants from Bangladesh and India have participated in the course. 8 participants from Bangladesh including 2 Deputy Secretaries to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh and 6 from different NGOs participated in the course. | |||
****The course contents were Policy of tobacco control, BI (Bloomberg Initiative) goals and resources, Smoke free policy, Leadership issues, FCTC, The role of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> India Office in tobacco control... | |||
***2009 Dec - [http://ypsa.org/2009/12/mayor-of-coxs-bazar-municipality-declared-smoke-free-municipality-office-premise/?fbclid=IwAR0PcGd58mgeguFbXmUCgaK31i5x_TUmba3JnODKdfWzYmW4hPTDvzH03WM Mayor of Cox’s Bazar municipality declared smoke free Municipality office premise] | |||
****YPSA has been implementing a project on “Promoting smoke free local Government and Public spaces in Chittagong Division” with the assistance from <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Initiatives since April 2009. | |||
***2009 Nov - [http://ypsa.org/2009/11/bangladesh-sub-national-smoke-free-project-workshop-ended/?fbclid=IwAR1b08i9Y08q7bgHj6bbNvYW3uoxTZ8TLqI0Zdr1lqdNv7qX2M0uPs6Efr0 Bangladesh Sub-National Smoke-Free Project Workshop ended] | |||
****The two –day workshop today, on 12th November 2009 ended at YPSA-HRDC, organized by YPSA and PROGGA in cooperation with Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> and Bloomberg Initiatives. | |||
****The workshop is participated by the representatives from different NGOs, around the country, working on the Smoke-Free Campaign like- WBB Trust, ACLAB, AID, BICD, ACD, BCDP, PUP, NATAB, Shimantik, Chittagong City Corporation, Darpan-Comilla, Cox’s Bazar Municipality, Feni Human Development Foundation, YPSA and PROGGA. | |||
***2009 Aug - [http://ypsa.org/2009/08/media-should-actively-come-forward-to-support-the-smoke-free-campaign/?fbclid=IwAR0PcGd58mgeguFbXmUCgaK31i5x_TUmba3JnODKdfWzYmW4hPTDvzH03WM Media should actively come forward to support the Smoke Free Campaign] | |||
****Media should contribute to ensure the proper implementation of the Smoke and Tobacco Control Act and Rules.’ Speakers said in a meeting that organized by YPSA, on 27 August 2009 in Chittagong, on “Smoke free Work and Public Place: Duties of Media” under the program of “Promoting Smoke Free Local Government and Public Spaces in Chittagong Division” supported by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and Bloomberg Initiatives. | |||
***2009 Jul - [http://ypsa.org/2009/07/cftfk-bloomberg-and-union-representatives-visited-ypsa/ <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">'''CTFK'''</span>, Bloomberg and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> Representatives visited YPSA] | |||
****Ms. Pamela Sumner Coffey, Director, International Grants of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> accompany with Ms. Kelly Larson, MPH from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Delhi office and Mr. Md. Akramul Islam, Technical Consultant from <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> visited YPSA and reviewed YPSA project titled ‘ Promoting Smoke Free Local Government and Public Places in Chittagong Division’ on 21 July ’09 in YPSA head office. | |||
***2009 Apr - [http://ypsa.org/2009/04/management-and-leadership-training-course-by-the-union/?fbclid=IwAR2CtJZPLKwzw_fvDjPCsGYyXzBxE95rTGrRxkmEhEjO4RbvNuQ3ZVsZtI0 Management and Leadership Training Course by <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>] | |||
****Mr.Nazmul Haider , Program Officer of YPSA recently participated in the Management and Leadership Training Course organized by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> ) at Hyderabad , India from 30 March – 7 April 2009 . The course was supported by Bloomberg Initiative for Tobacco Control | |||
===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. | |||
===2013 Jun 14 - [https://www.bloomberg.org/blog/bangladesh-enacts-new-anti-tobacco-rules/ Bangladesh Enacts New Anti-Tobacco Rules]=== | |||
*Bloomberg Philanthropies grantees and [http://bata.net.bd/en/home/ Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance] members persistently supported the amendment through innovative public campaigns. | |||
===[http://bata.net.bd/en/home/ The Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA)]=== | |||
*[http://bata.net.bd/en/category/e-cigarettes/ Call to formulate special ordinance against e-cigarette] | |||
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=== | ===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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===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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==India== | ==India== | ||
===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: go back to this page - India after Bangladesh)]=== | ===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: go back to this page - India after Bangladesh)]=== | ||
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===2020 Oct 15 - [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2020-10-15_bloomberg-s-war-chest-probed.html?fbclid=IwAR2RorMwBRpCbZRSdnYyfZgnHHfzPn6ZiYFoXw3lp-ydCN1rRJDj0tv8xy0 Bloomberg’s War Chest Probed]=== | ===2020 Oct 15 - [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2020-10-15_bloomberg-s-war-chest-probed.html?fbclid=IwAR2RorMwBRpCbZRSdnYyfZgnHHfzPn6ZiYFoXw3lp-ydCN1rRJDj0tv8xy0 Bloomberg’s War Chest Probed]=== | ||
*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 Aug 31 - [https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bloomberg-charity-investigated-for-lobbying-against-tobacco-report-1744305 Note Marked 'Secret' Faulted Bloomberg Charity For Anti-Tobacco Lobbying]=== | |||
*India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, funds local non-profit groups for anti-tobacco lobbying, government documents show, making it the latest foreign non-government organisation to come under scrutiny. | |||
===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)== | ||
===[https://web.archive.org/web/20210323203004/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=PAHO&country_id=10&date_type=&date_from=&date_to=&submit=Buscar NOTE: Need to add and summarize]=== | ===[https://web.archive.org/web/20210323203004/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=PAHO&country_id=10&date_type=&date_from=&date_to=&submit=Buscar NOTE: Need to add and summarize]=== | ||
===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201202223615/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=EMRO&country_id=78&date_type=1&date_from=&date_to=&viewall=Voir+tout Note: another link to add and summarize]=== | ===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201202223615/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=EMRO&country_id=78&date_type=1&date_from=&date_to=&viewall=Voir+tout Note: another link to add and summarize]=== | ||
===2021 Apr 27 [https://theunion.org/news/mexico%E2%80%99s-national-institute-of-public-health-publishes-%E2%80%9Cends-repository%E2%80%9D MEXICO’S NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLISHES “ENDS REPOSITORY”]=== | |||
*With support from <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, Mexico’s National Institute of Health conducted a systematic literature review of nearly one thousand articles published between 2017 and 2020. | |||
*As <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> documents in its May 2020 position paper, “[https://theunion.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/TheUnion_TobaccoControl_E-CigPaper_English_07.pdf Where Bans Are Best],” novel products, including ENDS and heated tobacco products (HTPs), threaten the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Our position, which is also supported by this new evidence base, is that low- and middle-income countries must apply the precautionary principle and ban these products before they threaten to derail tobacco control progress and hook a new generation of users. | |||
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*However, the primary reason cited for the ban is the ideology of the <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> and its Bloomberg-funded tobacco control arm the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). | *However, the primary reason cited for the ban is the ideology of the <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> and its Bloomberg-funded tobacco control arm the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). | ||
*The bottom line for Mexico is that <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>/FCTC recommends prohibition when possible, and the government thinks it’s possible. Countries that follow <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> dogma on e-cigarette policy are rewarded with huge grants for public health programs that employ many people. Much of the funding for the <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> tobacco control programs is provided by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. | *The bottom line for Mexico is that <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>/FCTC recommends prohibition when possible, and the government thinks it’s possible. Countries that follow <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> dogma on e-cigarette policy are rewarded with huge grants for public health programs that employ many people. Much of the funding for the <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> tobacco control programs is provided by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. | ||
===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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* See photo of financial supporters in the photo section at the bottom of the section on Nicotine / Tobacco. Note Bloomberg under the graphic for Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK / TFKAF''')</span> | * See photo of financial supporters in the photo section at the bottom of the section on Nicotine / Tobacco. Note Bloomberg under the graphic for Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK / TFKAF''')</span> | ||
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===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: Go back to this page. Scroll down to this country]=== | ===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: Go back to this page. Scroll down to this country]=== | ||
===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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==LMIC's / "Philanthropic Colonialism" (General / Multiple Countries)== | ==LMIC's / "Philanthropic Colonialism" (General / Multiple Countries)== | ||
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===2021 Aug 21 - [https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/misinformation-hinders-tobacco-harm-reduction-lmic-countries-advocates-say-292030 Misinformation hinders tobacco harm reduction in LMIC countries, advocates say]=== | |||
*Health-policy experts representing countries such as India, Ukraine, Kenya, and Mexico spoke about the obstacles to the adoption of THR in LMICs | |||
*Misinformation from international NGOs is one of the significant factors that prevent the adoption of tobacco harm reduction (THR) in the low and middle-income countries (LMIC), said harm reduction advocates. | |||
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*“Science must serve the truth, not interests and ideologies – commented Prof. Riccardo Polosa, founder of CoEHAR and considered the most cited scientist in the world in the field of scientific studies on electronic cigarettes -“ It is easy to cause alarmism by deceiving those who do not have adequate knowledge to evaluate information critically. I find it very dishonest that eminent scientists and philanthropists abuse their position and their knowledge to confuse citizens, journalists and governments.“ | *“Science must serve the truth, not interests and ideologies – commented Prof. Riccardo Polosa, founder of CoEHAR and considered the most cited scientist in the world in the field of scientific studies on electronic cigarettes -“ It is easy to cause alarmism by deceiving those who do not have adequate knowledge to evaluate information critically. I find it very dishonest that eminent scientists and philanthropists abuse their position and their knowledge to confuse citizens, journalists and governments.“ | ||
*Bloomberg’s philanthropic activities are not limited to the West but, through a complex network of non-profit organizations that finance and influence the process of defining public health policies, also influenced many developing countries. | *Bloomberg’s philanthropic activities are not limited to the West but, through a complex network of non-profit organizations that finance and influence the process of defining public health policies, also influenced many developing countries. | ||
===2021 Mar 18 - [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/03/18/asian-consumers-repudiate-bloombergs-proposal-to-ban-e-cigs-htps-in-lmics/ Asian consumers repudiate Bloomberg’s proposal to ban e-cigs, HTPs in LMICs]=== | |||
*[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ban-on-safer-nicotine-products-in-lmics-to-inflame-smoking-epidemicasian-consumers-301252811.html Alternative Link] | |||
*Consumer groups in the Asia-Pacific region warned that a blanket ban on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in low- and middle-income countries, as proposed by an anti-tobacco non-government organization funded by Bloomberg, will only inflame the smoking epidemic and result in higher death toll from smoking-related diseases. | |||
===2021 Mar 16 - [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/03/16/bloomberg-philanthropy-charity-or-intrusion/ Bloomberg Philanthropy: charity or intrusion?]=== | |||
*Bloomberg’s Philanthropies’ core principles are anchored on direct policy intervention, rather than on the positive engagement of stakeholders in recipient countries. | |||
*Historically, philanthropies engage non-government or people’s organizations in beneficiary states. | |||
*But who did Blomberg’s philanthropic arms tap in the country?It’s not a foundation, an NGO, PO or church organization. It is a government agency itself...That’s why consumers, academics, and some political leaders are up in arms against such an intrusive, collusive, and detrimental philanthropic posturing. | |||
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**10. Blanket bans in LMICs are a form of ‘philanthropic colonialism’ | **10. Blanket bans in LMICs are a form of ‘philanthropic colonialism’ | ||
*Global organisations such as the WHO, Bloomberg Philanthropies and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> wield great influence in LMICs through sponsorship of healthcare programs and public initiatives. This influence manifests itself through top-down policymaking approaches, telling LMICs what is best for them. To put it bluntly, policies such as these inherently view the inhabitants of LMICs as second-class citizens. These are policy decisions that do not consider individuals, their rights, and their battle to quit or reduce and the difficulties involved. It is wrong to deny more than a billion tobacco users, most of those in LMICs, a voice and a choice. Consumers have the right to be heard. | *Global organisations such as the WHO, Bloomberg Philanthropies and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> wield great influence in LMICs through sponsorship of healthcare programs and public initiatives. This influence manifests itself through top-down policymaking approaches, telling LMICs what is best for them. To put it bluntly, policies such as these inherently view the inhabitants of LMICs as second-class citizens. These are policy decisions that do not consider individuals, their rights, and their battle to quit or reduce and the difficulties involved. It is wrong to deny more than a billion tobacco users, most of those in LMICs, a voice and a choice. Consumers have the right to be heard. | ||
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===2021 Mar 16 - [https://filtermag.org/vapers-in-lower-income-countries-condemn-bans-driven-by-western-interests/?fbclid=IwAR0F1Z8brYHi-ngvKFVO5tsZlRnecWRMyEuY2Rrnrb8cYHv4_6PsCBmCDrg Vapers in LMICs Condemn Prohibitions Driven by Western Interests]=== | |||
*On May 27, 2020, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease published a statement in anticipation of World No Tobacco Day: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) should prohibit vapes and heated tobacco products (HTPs). The influential NGO, headquartered in Paris and colloquially known as <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, is meant to be “working to improve health for people” in LMICs. It receives substantial funding from Michael Bloomberg... | |||
*Another Bloomberg-backed group, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and its lobbying arm, the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK / TFKAF''')</span>, spend a significantly more money abroad in LMICs than it does in the States. And ludicrously, the <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>, an agency with a long history of accepting Bloomberg’s charity, has yet to embrace e-cigarettes as safer than combustibles. | |||
===2021 Mar 16 - [https://vaping360.com/vape-news/108893/innco-opposes-bloombergs-philanthropic-colonialism/?fbclid=IwAR3uFpTh7ulIbK7jFqGPZazZS_QlAxFDFBY97TZP9ZzBWfWx8j-RGttKJPk INNCO Opposes Bloomberg's "Philanthropic Colonialism"]=== | |||
===2021 Mar 16 - [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2021-03-16_innco-eviscerates-bloomberg-ban-document.html?fbclid=IwAR0krob1-qseYD5uRtKIxDt8cn5E2W1ZZmHYvooTYUjpn45AAjBWWRnR3oo INNCO Eviscerates Bloomberg Ban Document]=== | |||
===2021 Mar 22 - [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ban-on-safer-nicotine-products-in-lmics-to-inflame-smoking-epidemicasian-consumers-301252811.html?fbclid=IwAR1r6lMqCbtjHGdPIN2K-QeeS_eBp265iaa81XUM71XpLuACp0Ni4JO7Jw0 Ban on Safer Nicotine Products in LMICs to Inflame Smoking Epidemic--Asian Consumers]=== | ===2021 Mar 22 - [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ban-on-safer-nicotine-products-in-lmics-to-inflame-smoking-epidemicasian-consumers-301252811.html?fbclid=IwAR1r6lMqCbtjHGdPIN2K-QeeS_eBp265iaa81XUM71XpLuACp0Ni4JO7Jw0 Ban on Safer Nicotine Products in LMICs to Inflame Smoking Epidemic--Asian Consumers]=== | ||
*"We believe that awareness of and access to reduced-harm products is a fundamental human right, and that denial of this right will prevent significant health benefits in LMICs," Consumer groups in the Asia-Pacific region warned that a blanket ban on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in low- and middle-income countries, as proposed by an anti-tobacco non-government organization funded by Bloomberg, will only inflame the smoking epidemic and result in higher death toll from smoking-related diseases. | *"We believe that awareness of and access to reduced-harm products is a fundamental human right, and that denial of this right will prevent significant health benefits in LMICs," Consumer groups in the Asia-Pacific region warned that a blanket ban on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in low- and middle-income countries, as proposed by an anti-tobacco non-government organization funded by Bloomberg, will only inflame the smoking epidemic and result in higher death toll from smoking-related diseases. | ||
*Keywords: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Initiative to reduce tobacco use, MPOWER, WHO, | *Keywords: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Initiative to reduce tobacco use, MPOWER, WHO, | ||
*[https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/03/18/asian-consumers-repudiate-bloombergs-proposal-to-ban-e-cigs-htps-in-lmics/ Alternative link to article] | |||
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**[https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%26cad%3Drja%26uact%3D8%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjRivSH3cHvAhXIB80KHR-7CeA4ChAWMAd6BAgIEAM%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fjournals.scholarpublishing.org%252Findex.php%252FASSRJ%252Farticle%252Fdownload%252F4719%252F2902%252F%26usg%3DAOvVaw2fjNe6kvF4drpG6bA5Pv21%26fbclid%3DIwAR1yTRvFYLsdfzNX8yj6oaoyO_V4XIl5IW2Y8W7P_oWb1VEciHFJjhQcWm4&h=AT06ExDGQNfNiZZpJYLeuNdb3pgVDuCHbcmpDP0GMKcz3GEpz9PkU1ITQ1dimDDGSRsAZjStLDkhzBrb2UCux7zlsCSrqOM0u2EGE1JnodeTSs1xoA3zKRt6erkHq3Uwdw&__tn__=R%5D-R&c%5B0%5D=AT014w-cM6Lu2YwkEHhtF2Owh6jASlawKqyiEUaBbNY8QgcoTgphHR4UQumYIQ2knxita0OzfauWQHl6NWyNcb4tfGFrCA1LCncmf0g3ElggONg7h73-i0zJp0mOzPHZY2sU80Pd8S4XJYNLjL86ssq5VPtMg2na_z_GQJt-WkEJls-pjVo6_zYQhfjKvCQnQbYBoul7sP13sUf-Lw Philanthropy in Education: What’s the Cost?] | **[https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%26cad%3Drja%26uact%3D8%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjRivSH3cHvAhXIB80KHR-7CeA4ChAWMAd6BAgIEAM%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fjournals.scholarpublishing.org%252Findex.php%252FASSRJ%252Farticle%252Fdownload%252F4719%252F2902%252F%26usg%3DAOvVaw2fjNe6kvF4drpG6bA5Pv21%26fbclid%3DIwAR1yTRvFYLsdfzNX8yj6oaoyO_V4XIl5IW2Y8W7P_oWb1VEciHFJjhQcWm4&h=AT06ExDGQNfNiZZpJYLeuNdb3pgVDuCHbcmpDP0GMKcz3GEpz9PkU1ITQ1dimDDGSRsAZjStLDkhzBrb2UCux7zlsCSrqOM0u2EGE1JnodeTSs1xoA3zKRt6erkHq3Uwdw&__tn__=R%5D-R&c%5B0%5D=AT014w-cM6Lu2YwkEHhtF2Owh6jASlawKqyiEUaBbNY8QgcoTgphHR4UQumYIQ2knxita0OzfauWQHl6NWyNcb4tfGFrCA1LCncmf0g3ElggONg7h73-i0zJp0mOzPHZY2sU80Pd8S4XJYNLjL86ssq5VPtMg2na_z_GQJt-WkEJls-pjVo6_zYQhfjKvCQnQbYBoul7sP13sUf-Lw Philanthropy in Education: What’s the Cost?] | ||
**[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-we-need-to-overhaul-p_b_3844967?utm_hp_ref=charity&fbclid=IwAR1IaIjXYLLzLqTnTyrxdtx5mxSsqQaeYF7dDJz3_40XbCQucj8SmI-UkVU Why We Need to Overhaul Philanthropy: Interview With Peter Buffett] | **[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-we-need-to-overhaul-p_b_3844967?utm_hp_ref=charity&fbclid=IwAR1IaIjXYLLzLqTnTyrxdtx5mxSsqQaeYF7dDJz3_40XbCQucj8SmI-UkVU Why We Need to Overhaul Philanthropy: Interview With Peter Buffett] | ||
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==Maldives== | ==Maldives== | ||
===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: Go back to this page. Scroll down to this country]=== | ===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: Go back to this page. Scroll down to this country]=== | ||
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===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: Go back to this page. Scroll down to this country]=== | ===[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011821/https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=SEARO Note: Go back to this page. Scroll down to this country]=== | ||
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===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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* | ===2021 Jun 2 - [https://mb.com.ph/2021/06/02/deped-now-part-of-phs-smoke-free-movement/ DepEd now part of PH’s Smoke-Free Movement]=== | ||
*The Department of Education (DepEd) and the Social Watch Philippines (SWP) have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) in a bid to shift to high gear the two parties’ “aggressive” campaign for a smoke-free Philippines. | |||
*NOTE: Social Watch Philippines has received [https://tobaccocontrolgrants.org/What-we-fund?who_region=WPRO&country_id=15&date_type=&date_from=&date_to=&submit=Search Bloomberg funded tobacco control grants] | |||
===2021 Apr 28 - [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/04/28/legislators-lambaste-influential-foreign-ngos-for-ignoring-philippine-sovereignty/ Legislators lambaste influential foreign NGOs for ignoring Philippine sovereignty]=== | |||
*According to Nograles, several government agencies have received a total of US$2.5M from <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, which is funded by the anti-tobacco advocacy Bloomberg Initiative. | |||
**2009: Department of Health received US$742,441 for the development and enforcement of local government smoke-free ordinances. | |||
**2010: Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) received US$206,701 for the development and enforcement of local government smoke-free ordinances. | |||
**2010: DOH received US$369,877 for tobacco control policies, the same year the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and DOH Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) 2010-01 was issued. | |||
**2012: MMDA received US$180,000 for smoke-free city ordinances. | |||
**2013: DOH received US$150,000 for the implementation of tobacco control policies. | |||
**2013: CSC received US$150,000 to raise awareness of and compliance with the policy to exclude tobacco industry interference. | |||
**2014: DOH received US$192,000 for the National Tobacco Control Strategy. | |||
**2015: DepEd received US$158,039 for its tobacco advertising ban campaign. | |||
**2016: CSC received US$183,695. | |||
**2016: MMDA received US$160,000. | |||
*“The FDA has conducted multiple researches and consultations with different groups, and these groups they consulted with are also funded by The Union and Bloomberg Initiative. There have been multiple instances wherein every time there is an anti-tobacco regulation that comes out of either the FDA or DOH, it coincides with grants coming from Bloomberg,” Nograles noted. | |||
===2021 Apr 12 - [https://filtermag.org/bloomberg-nicotine-duterte-drug-war/ Bloomberg Anti-Nicotine Lobby Among US Backers of Duterte’s Drug War]=== | ===2021 Apr 12 - [https://filtermag.org/bloomberg-nicotine-duterte-drug-war/ Bloomberg Anti-Nicotine Lobby Among US Backers of Duterte’s Drug War]=== | ||
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*“But the truth is, Bloomberg and affiliates were quite aware of what they were doing. This was revealed in October 2020, during public talks hosted by the Philippine FDA (P-FDA) on the topic of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. Filipino citizens and stakeholders in attendance voiced concern that the P-FDA authorities charged with making decisions about nicotine policies had been awarded grants by the Bloomberg Initiative and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>” | *“But the truth is, Bloomberg and affiliates were quite aware of what they were doing. This was revealed in October 2020, during public talks hosted by the Philippine FDA (P-FDA) on the topic of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. Filipino citizens and stakeholders in attendance voiced concern that the P-FDA authorities charged with making decisions about nicotine policies had been awarded grants by the Bloomberg Initiative and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>” | ||
===2020 May 31 - [https://www.facebook.com/PLCPD1989/photos/a.389540504447012/3110278225706546/ World No Tobacco Day]=== | |||
*Join us as we celebrate World No Tobacco Day through an online concert brought to you by Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development, Child Rights Network (CRN) Philippines, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with Action for Economic Reforms, HealthJustice Philippines, Health Rights Watch, and Social Watch Philippines | |||
=== | ===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. | ||
===2012 Mar 23 - [https://www.rappler.com/nation/why-mike-bloomberg-loves-this-pinoy-group?fbclid=IwAR0lmXSB471iy_QIaXg1znPjsBEw3gkDpXvR0DWKyTEkCj8mXIQatX6JObo Why Mike Bloomberg loves this Pinoy group]=== | |||
*Health Justice (Philippines) gets a grant from Mike Bloomberg to implement its tobacco control plans | |||
*This same night that philanthropist and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced giving US$220M more for the global work on eliminating tobacco use --bringing his total commitment to $600 million -- he recognized HealthJustice Philippines for its contribution to the cause. | |||
*The Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use is the world's largest coordinated effort to reduce harm caused by tobacco globally. The MMDA smoking ban program is, in fact, a recipient of a P9.5-M grant from the Bloomberg Initiative. | |||
*Bloomberg, since he became mayor of New York in 2002, has implemented strict tobacco control laws. In 2007, he launched the Bloomberg Initiative, as part of the Bloomberg Philanthrophies, and has since supported tobacco control work in '''38 countries'''. | |||
===FDA Scandal (Philippine)=== | ===FDA Scandal (Philippine)=== | ||
*2021 Jun 22 - [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/06/22/filipino-lawmakers-flag-violations-on-fdas-receipt-of-money-from-foreign-ngo/ Filipino lawmakers flag violations on FDA’s receipt of money from foreign NGO] | |||
**“It was so obvious that the donation was made to influence the FDA that was tantamount to bribery. We could not be puppets of institutions that are not even Filipinos. This is not only a violation of the laws that we have, it is a violation of our Constitution,” Garin said. | |||
*2021 Jun 9 - [https://mb.com.ph/2021/06/09/fda-hit-for-getting-funds-from-anti-smoking-advocates-discriminatory-policies-vs-tobacco-industry/ FDA hit for getting funds from anti-smoking advocates; 'discriminatory' policies vs tobacco industry] | |||
*2021 May 6 - [https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1427947/consumers-express-alarm-over-foreign-charities-attempts-to-defy-ph-sovereignty Consumers express alarm over foreign charities’ attempts to defy PH sovereignty] | |||
*2021 May 6 - [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/05/06/filipino-consumers-denounce-foreign-charities-violation-of-countrys-sovereignty/ Filipino consumers denounce foreign charities’ violation of country’s sovereignty] | |||
*2021 Apr 21 - [https://manilastandard.net/business/biz-plus/352460/groups-ask-doh-fda-to-stop-soliciting-bloomberg-money.html Groups ask DOH, FDA to stop soliciting Bloomberg money] | |||
**“The FDA, an attached agency of the DOH which was tasked to prepare the implementing guidelines for the regulation of vapor products and HTPs, should have not approached and collected money from <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> and Bloomberg Philanthropies in the first place, because these organizations were known for advancing their own anti-vaping agenda globally,” | |||
**"The FDA should prove its independence by drafting regulations that are fair to smokers, vapers and consumers. We hope that the FDA will recognize our rights as consumers of safer and innovative products.” | |||
**"Congress should consider passing laws that prohibit foreign non-government organizations with vested interests from providing grants to regulatory agencies in the Philippines" | |||
*2021 Mar 26 - [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2021-03-26_grubby-money-corrupts-vape-legislation.html?fbclid=IwAR0BoHG2iqE3J6ptXjMZN3Mi5uy5g6C6ui5pngNuFNV_5o1_HYt4ucFCujY Grubby Money Corrupts Vape Legislation] | *2021 Mar 26 - [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2021-03-26_grubby-money-corrupts-vape-legislation.html?fbclid=IwAR0BoHG2iqE3J6ptXjMZN3Mi5uy5g6C6ui5pngNuFNV_5o1_HYt4ucFCujY Grubby Money Corrupts Vape Legislation] | ||
*Last year, the FDA was cast under a cloud when it emerged it had already received “questionable” Bloomberg money, after first denying they had received funds with an agreement to implement certain policies against tobacco harm reduction products. They didn't admit it until after being called out and presented with the evidence. They admitted to actively seeking funding from out of the country NGO's. An investigation was called. None of this made any difference as the Administration decided to plough on with its proposals despite the public consultation remaining unfinished. Representitive Estrellita Suansing called the move “premature” and “deplorable”. The FDA said the NTCP which is under the Department of Health is also receiving grants for the project. The FDA received a grant from Bloomberg with regards to strengthening its regulatory functions on tobacco control. The articles and blogs below tell the story... | **Last year, the FDA was cast under a cloud when it emerged it had already received “questionable” Bloomberg money, after first denying they had received funds with an agreement to implement certain policies against tobacco harm reduction products. They didn't admit it until after being called out and presented with the evidence. They admitted to actively seeking funding from out of the country NGO's. An investigation was called. None of this made any difference as the Administration decided to plough on with its proposals despite the public consultation remaining unfinished. Representitive Estrellita Suansing called the move “premature” and “deplorable”. The FDA said the NTCP which is under the Department of Health is also receiving grants for the project. The FDA received a grant from Bloomberg with regards to strengthening its regulatory functions on tobacco control. The articles and blogs below tell the story... | ||
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***<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> | ***<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> | ||
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***World Health Organization | ***World Health Organization | ||
***Asian Development Bank | ***Asian Development Bank | ||
*2021 Mar 19 - [https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1409126/fda-admits-hiring-people-to-draft-regulations-on-vapes-using-anti-tobacco-money?fbclid=IwAR0lmXSB471iy_QIaXg1znPjsBEw3gkDpXvR0DWKyTEkCj8mXIQatX6JObo FDA admits hiring people to draft regulations on vapes using anti-tobacco money] | |||
*2021 Mar 17 - [https://maharlika.tv/2021/03/17/foreign-ngo-pushing-for-ban-of-cigarette-alternatives-funded-drafting-of-ph-regulations/?fbclid=IwAR3Lu8_0_Co1l0iMRDTbDst7k2EHH9dcE5pYLseDUk3rM9-Xy3rV590xcas Foreign NGO pushing for ban of cigarette alternatives funded drafting of PH regulations] | |||
*2021 Mar 17 - [https://www.manilastandard.net/business/biz-plus/349714/fda-admits-getting-over-150-000-from-anti-tobacco-ngo-to-regulate-vapes.html FDA admits getting over $150,000 from anti-tobacco NGO to regulate vapes] | |||
*2021 Mar 17 - [https://mb.com.ph/2021/03/17/total-ban-on-flavored-vapor-products-pushed/?fbclid=IwAR3NoyW9pHtJTJB4TjNqpXnbdCAOYl8LuKiKE9JOAV1IVn4tjuoVecyAljk Total ban on flavored vapor products pushed] | |||
*2021 Mar 10 - [https://mb.com.ph/2021/03/10/suansing-calls-deplorable-fdas-premature-issuance-of-vape-htp-regulations/?fbclid=IwAR0iP6PNr4yfdYU0nvF9Yy_PB59P7RXumkZJrOnwpfd7CtR8WylcgUtja74 Suansing calls ‘deplorable’ FDA’s premature issuance of vape, HTP regulations] | |||
**2021 Feb 2 - [https://insidesources.com/bloombergs-philanthro-colonialism-a-threat-to-global-health-and-science/?fbclid=IwAR0rbYo5bk9d9Nb-vhPdCeTX1Xyf_BxOX8-2weZUpMtSQIfIOp9bwoIFboI Bloomberg’s Philanthro-Colonialism: A Threat to Global Health and Science] | *2021, Mar 3 - [https://mb.com.ph/2021/03/03/philippine-government-warned-against-ngos-banned-by-india/ Philippine government warned against NGOs banned by India]=== | ||
**Consumer groups warned the Philippine government against non-government organizations (NGOs) such as those linked to Bloomberg Philanthropies that were banned by India for providing grants to lobby for local policies. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, which has co-managed the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use Grants Program, confirmed on its website that it has been working with the DOH since July, 2010 | |||
*2021 Feb 2 - [https://insidesources.com/bloombergs-philanthro-colonialism-a-threat-to-global-health-and-science/?fbclid=IwAR0rbYo5bk9d9Nb-vhPdCeTX1Xyf_BxOX8-2weZUpMtSQIfIOp9bwoIFboI Bloomberg’s Philanthro-Colonialism: A Threat to Global Health and Science] | |||
*2021 Jan 27 - [https://journal.com.ph/news/nation/bloomberg-faces-mounting-pressure-to-explain-fda-funding/fbclid=IwAR2RorMwBRpCbZRSdnYyfZgnHHfzPn6ZiYFoXw3lp-ydCN1rRJDj0tv8xy0 Bloomberg faces mounting pressure to explain FDA funding] | |||
*2020 Oct 23 - [https://www.vapingpost.com/2020/10/23/philippines-public-consultations-on-vapes-halted-as-fda-hid-funding/?fbclid=IwAR1iWlGwrxUqNsPjcICmalIA9FtKL9vS0NyL1ja2X1meF_8mYXJ8l51spAM Philippines: Public Consultations on Vapes Halted as FDA Hid Funding] | |||
*2020 Oct 20 - [https://mb.com.ph/2020/10/20/consumer-group-eyes-filing-graft-charges-against-fda/?fbclid=IwAR0SZXy__d2QbmH30EyYoG1G4rFug1LZwfLNIO1tbQkSGjxo_V0AyB8FXP8 Consumer group eyes filing graft charges against FDA] | |||
*2020 Oct 15 - [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2020-10-15_bloomberg-s-war-chest-probed.html?fbclid=IwAR1DCbK_ldS19LFda-A6QieNEKDbJ1FdT7mqHY-Yb3EBq8_kqJjDfvoDsco Bloomberg’s War Chest Probed] | |||
*2020 Oct 11 - [https://www.manilastandard.net/index.php/business/biz-plus/336495/house-leader-seeks-probe-on-grants-given-to-fda-by-anti-tobacco-groups.html?fbclid=IwAR2LKD-hi43NKwHi3rOk-T9JYcnavpbmcO5U7GjEaFpTRuVPWztpN-44tBg House leader seeks probe on grants given to FDA by anti-tobacco groups] | |||
===Respirator Scandal - Unintended Consequences (Philippines)=== | |||
*What happens when the powerful help bread so much hate and contempt for an industry, that the industry is shunned when they can help in a world-wide crisis? | |||
*2021 Jun 10: [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/06/10/370-respirators-donated-by-tobacco-industry-rotting-in-doh-warehouse/ 370 respirators donated by tobacco industry rotting in DOH warehouse] | |||
**“This is criminal negligence. These respirators could have saved lives. My district in Cagayan De Oro which has one of the highest cases of Covid in the country badly needs these respirators,” an aghast Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez told the House Committee on Good Government. | |||
**The reason the DOH cited for holding on to the donated respirators is the Joint DOH- Civil Service Commission Memorandum Circular 2010-01 signed by then CSC chair now DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III prohibiting government interaction with the tobacco industry which includes receipt of donations. | |||
**The discovery of the rotting respirators surfaced during the public hearing conducted by the House Committee on Good Government on reports that the DOH and the Food and Drug Administration received money from anti-tobacco, foreign interest groups led by the Bloomberg Initiative. “It is sad that the DOH prioritized the advocacy of foreigners at the expense of the lives of Filipino people,” Nograles said. | |||
=== | ===Vaccine Scandal - Unintended Consequences (Philippines)=== | ||
* | *A law from 2010 would have banned several large companies, including the tobacco industry, from procuring Covid-19 vaccinations. 1/2 of those were to be administered to employees and 1/2 to the public. | ||
* | *2021 Apr 25 - [https://insidesources.com/bloomberg-blasted-for-using-billions-to-block-vaccines-for-tobacco-company-workers/ Bloomberg Blasted for Using Billions to Block Vaccines for Tobacco Company Workers] | ||
* | **Earlier this year, the government of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte came under intense fire for denying tobacco companies access to COVID-19 vaccines imported by the government in partnership with the private sector for employee vaccination programs. The Duterte administration’s decision was based on a 10-year-old policy forbidding government officials from interacting with the tobacco industry. That rule was adopted shortly after the Philippines’ Department of Health and Civil Service Commission received what The Manila Standard described as “massive grants” from Bloomberg’s anti-tobacco Bloomberg Initiative. | ||
**Article then moves on to Bloomberg's environmental activities in the USA | |||
*2021 Mar 30 = [https://www.24shareupdates.com/2021/03/30/filipino-lawmaker-asks-who-to-respect-rights-of-companies-to-get-covid-19-vaccines/ Filipino lawmaker asks WHO to respect rights of companies to get Covid-19 vaccines] | |||
*2021 Mar 26 - [https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2021-03-26_grubby-money-corrupts-vape-legislation.html?fbclid=IwAR0BoHG2iqE3J6ptXjMZN3Mi5uy5g6C6ui5pngNuFNV_5o1_HYt4ucFCujY Grubby Money Corrupts Vape Legislation] | |||
*2021 Mar 23 - [https://manilastandard.net/business/economy-trade/350219/lawmakers-ask-gov-t-to-repeal-unlawful-csc-circular-against-tobacco-companies.html Lawmakers ask gov’t to repeal ‘unlawful’ CSC circular against tobacco companies] | |||
**Several lawmakers pushed for the immediate repeal of a controversial joint memorandum circular issued by then Civil Service Commission chair Francisco Duque in 2010 following the receipt of grant money from a US lobby group that is now being used as the basis to prohibit tobacco companies from purchasing vaccines for their employees and dependents. | |||
**JMC 2010-01, which prohibits government officials and employees from interacting with the tobacco industry, was issued in the same year the DOH and the CSC received massive grants from the anti-tobacco NGO Bloomberg Initiative. It was the basis of the DOH’s initial draft regulation barring tobacco companies from obtaining and donating COVID-19 vaccines. | |||
**Nograles, in a public hearing last week, revealed that JMC 2010-01 was issued by the CSC and the DOH in 2010, the same year the DOH received a huge financial grant from the anti-tobacco NGO Bloomberg Initiative. Secretary Francisco Duque III was the chairman of the CSC, after his tenure as DOH secretary, when the JMC was issued. “It has been revealed that foreign money has been influencing policy making in the DOH for quite some time. In fact, the Congressional hearing revealed at least $2 million in lobby money that has influenced policy coming from Bloomberg alone,” Nograles said. Nograles said the proposed restriction was obviously pushed on the basis of Duque’s deal with Bloomberg and it showed that DOH policies “have already been compromised by foreign money.” | |||
**“We should not be misdirected by these interest-groups that instead of helping our country in our time of need, work to set us against each other,” Barbers said. | |||
*2021 Mar 22 - [https://www.manilastandard.net/business/economy-trade/350080/anti-tobacco-money-linked-to-doh-order-excluding-tobacco-firms-from-vaccination.html?fbclid=IwAR3kDGlNSP8ZzfOhJH1Uqy1tGKfhjpn8lJ4QkDSuUDGydvAfEl77VVrcv1Q Lobby money linked to DOH order excluding tobacco firms from vaccination] | |||
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===2021 [https://consumerchoicecenter.org/the-digital-economy-minister-crusading-to-legalize-vaping-in-thailand/ THE DIGITAL ECONOMY MINISTER CRUSADING TO LEGALIZE VAPING IN THAILAND]=== | |||
*One research organization at Thammasat University in Bangkok has been given grants as part of a $20 million global project by Michael Bloomberg’s charity Bloomberg Philanthropies to “monitor” tobacco regulations and push for bans on alternative technologies like vaping. | |||
*This follows Michael Bloomberg’s efforts at depriving adoption of harm-reducing nicotine products in developing countries like the Philippines, India, and others. | |||
*The effort to legalize vaping, however, will come with significant opposition. Both domestic doctor groups and the FCTC, as well as Bloomberg’s foundation, have put pressure on the government to enforce a continued ban on vaping products. | |||
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===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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===2021 Apr 27 - [https://cei.org/blog/a-menthol-cigarette-ban-would-perpetuate-the-racist-war-on-drugs/ A Menthol Cigarette Ban Would Perpetuate the Racist War on Drugs]=== | |||
*In 2013 a coalition of health “charities” funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, initiated a citizen petition requesting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban menthol cigarettes. But, after years of ignoring the petition, the coalition—now joined by the NAACP and others—sued to force the FDA to respond, which experts believe the agency will do in the next few weeks. | |||
*Referenced Petition: [https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/sites/default/files/resources/tclc-fdacitizenpetition-menthol-2013.pdf Citizen Petition Asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Prohibit Menthol as a Characterizing Flavor in Cigarettes] | |||
**Written by: The Tobacco Control Legal Consortium. The Consortium’s affiliated legal centers include ChangeLab Solutions in Oakland, California; the Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation & Advocacy at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland; the Tobacco Control Resource Center, a project of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts; the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project at the Center for Social Gerontology in Ann Arbor, Michigan; the Public Health Law Center at the William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota; the Tobacco Control Policy and Legal Resource Center at New Jersey GASP in Summit, New Jersey; and the Center for Public Health and Tobacco Policy at New England Law in Boston, Massachusetts, which provides technical assistance to communities in the state of New York. All of the Consortium’s affiliated legal centers join this petition. | |||
**Signed by: National Latino Alliance for Health Equity, Dr. Valerie B. Yerger (individually - Naturopathic Doctor and Health Policy Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco - Board member, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council - Board member, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights - Board member, National African American Tobacco Prevention Network **Dr. Yerger’s organizational affiliations are included for identification purposes only), National Association of City and County Health Officials, NAATPN, Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Corporate Accountability International, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''(CTFK),''')</span> American Public Health Association, Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence, c/o UMDNJ — Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Tobacco Dependence Program, American Lung Association, Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL), American Legacy Foundation, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society — Cancer Action Network, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for Cancer Research, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, | |||
===2021 Mar 10 - California: [https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article249806533.html?fbclid=IwAR0bENuwD9Chj7PXc8jp3Ii6dvcftHWq3iXRXITZoRavi2LWLw0JR7GBYJA BLOOMBERG SPENDS ON ANTI-TOBACCO REFERENDUM]=== | ===2021 Mar 10 - California: [https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article249806533.html?fbclid=IwAR0bENuwD9Chj7PXc8jp3Ii6dvcftHWq3iXRXITZoRavi2LWLw0JR7GBYJA BLOOMBERG SPENDS ON ANTI-TOBACCO REFERENDUM]=== | ||
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===2019 Oct 3 - [https://www.atr.org/conservative-groups-urge-president-trump-protect-vapers-flavored-product-ban?amp&fbclid=IwAR1yNMr9V5LxAmaBYFT7zoMoAFh2sXf1dTzaQ02LL52S-spL-b04_O7tO6w Conservative Groups Urge President Trump To Protect Vapers from Flavored Product Ban]=== | ===2019 Oct 3 - [https://www.atr.org/conservative-groups-urge-president-trump-protect-vapers-flavored-product-ban?amp&fbclid=IwAR1yNMr9V5LxAmaBYFT7zoMoAFh2sXf1dTzaQ02LL52S-spL-b04_O7tO6w Conservative Groups Urge President Trump To Protect Vapers from Flavored Product Ban]=== | ||
*Billionaires like former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg have long attempted to curtail individual rights and consumer freedom in the United States. He has already committed nearly $1 billion to anti-tobacco efforts globally, in seeking to influence organizations like the <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> and fund research that demonizes adult smokers and adult vapers. On September 10, he announced a $160 million push to ban flavored e-cigarettes in America. Given your administration’s historic accomplishments and deregulatory agenda, it would be a mistake to allow HHS and the FDA to take marching orders from activists like Mike Bloomberg. | *Billionaires like former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg have long attempted to curtail individual rights and consumer freedom in the United States. He has already committed nearly $1 billion to anti-tobacco efforts globally, in seeking to influence organizations like the <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> and fund research that demonizes adult smokers and adult vapers. On September 10, he announced a $160 million push to ban flavored e-cigarettes in America. Given your administration’s historic accomplishments and deregulatory agenda, it would be a mistake to allow HHS and the FDA to take marching orders from activists like Mike Bloomberg. | ||
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===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://www.24shareupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Clarisse-Virgino-Research-with-IRS-returns-98.pdf Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines ]=== | |||
===2013 Dec 15 - [https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/52431/IDL-52431.pdf FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF TOBACCO CONTROL MEASURES: POTENTIAL OF INNOVATIVE FINANCING]=== | |||
*Several references to Bloomberg, Gates, etc. | |||
===2008 [https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/global/pdfs/en/GSP-GlobalMap-SmokeFreePolicies.pdf Global Smoke Free Partnership]=== | |||
*Many of the countries that have received Bloomberg Initiative funding are listed here, even if the legislation is currently quite weak. It implies that momentum for comprehensive legislation is building | |||
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==[https://www.cancer.org/ American Cancer Society] (ACS) / [https://www.fightcancer.org/ American Cancer Society Action Network] (ACSCAN)== | ==[https://www.cancer.org/ American Cancer Society] (ACS) / [https://www.fightcancer.org/ American Cancer Society Action Network] (ACSCAN)== | ||
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==[https://www.bloomberg.org/public-health/reducing-tobacco-use/anti-tobacco-trade-litigation-fund/ Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund]== | ==[https://www.bloomberg.org/public-health/reducing-tobacco-use/anti-tobacco-trade-litigation-fund/ Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund]== | ||
===2017 - <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>: [https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/us/trade EXCLUDE TOBACCO PRODUCTS FROM TRADE AGREEMENTS]=== | |||
*In March 2015, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund, a joint venture managed by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. This initiative provides financial and technical legal support to low- and middle-income countries that are facing claims, or threats of claims, against their tobacco control laws by the tobacco industry under international trade and investment agreements. | |||
===2015: [https://www.bloomberg.org/press/bloomberg-philanthropies-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-launch-anti-tobacco-trade-litigation-fund/ Bloomberg Philanthropies & The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Launch Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund]=== | |||
==[http://www.burningbrain.org/ Burning Brain Society] (India)== | ==[http://www.burningbrain.org/ Burning Brain Society] (India)== | ||
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*CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> - TAX-EXEMPT SINCE MAY 1996 | *CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> - TAX-EXEMPT SINCE MAY 1996 | ||
*Nonprofit Tax Code Designation: 501(c)(3) | *Nonprofit Tax Code Designation: 501(c)(3) | ||
===[https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/global/legal/what-we-do The International Legal Consortium (ILC)]=== | |||
*The International Legal Consortium (ILC) is a team of lawyers who provide technical assistance on tobacco control legislation and litigation to governments and civil society organizations around the world to promote strong, evidence-based tobacco control policies founded on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). | |||
===2021 Jun 23: [https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2021/06/matt-myers-in-2003-and-today.html?fbclid=IwAR0JX9Onn_RiJ_ltg6BkzHJSCixlSWizHYchiBMp7urojHho_5LHthrOb5M Matt Myers in 2003 and Today: A Pertinacious Tobacco Prohibitionist]=== | |||
*Myers is a tobacco prohibitionist. He gave lip service to THR in 2003, feigning support for THR contingent upon FDA regulation, as he expected to make it nearly impossible for manufacturers to convince the FDA that they had safer smoke-free products. When companies twice succeeded, he reneged on his Congressional testimony and trashed the FDA. | |||
===2021 Jun 15: [https://cei.org/blog/exposed-bloombergs-anti-tobacco-meddling-in-developing-countries/ Exposed: Bloomberg’s Anti-Tobacco Meddling in Developing Countries]=== | |||
*Extensive Report | |||
===2020, Jun 8 - [https://cei.org/blog/campaign-for-tobacco-free-kids-anti-drug-warriors-crocodile-tears/ Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Anti-Drug Warriors’ Crocodile Tears]=== | |||
*Funded in large part by Michael Bloomberg, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids ostensibly exists to reduce smoking among adolescents. In practice, it exists to push local, state, and federal governments—in the U.S. and around the world—to enact high taxes, regulatory policies, and criminal penalties surrounding the sale, possession, and use of tobacco products. Put another way, they have spent the last 25 years trying to make tobacco a target of the War on Drugs, which already encompasses marijuana, hallucinogens, and narcotics. Anti-tobacco activists, like the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids are anti-drug warriors. Their drug of disdain is nicotine. | |||
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*Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Tuesday it is joining forces with the nonprofit Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> on a $160 million initiative. | *Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Tuesday it is joining forces with the nonprofit Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> on a $160 million initiative. | ||
===2017-2018 - [https://www.taxjustice.net/our-funders/ $49,970] to Tax Justice Network=== | |||
*Did a [https://www.taxjustice.net/reports/ashes-to-ashes-how-british-american-tobacco-avoids-taxes-in-low-and-middle-income-countries/ report] with them in 2019 | |||
===2017 - CTFK: [https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/us/trade EXCLUDE TOBACCO PRODUCTS FROM TRADE AGREEMENTS]=== | |||
*In March 2015, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the Anti-Tobacco Trade Litigation Fund, a joint venture managed by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. This initiative provides financial and technical legal support to low- and middle-income countries that are facing claims, or threats of claims, against their tobacco control laws by the tobacco industry under international trade and investment agreements. | |||
===[https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/global/bloomberg Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use]=== | ===[https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-we-do/global/bloomberg Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use]=== | ||
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**International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(The Union)</span> | **International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(The Union)</span> | ||
**University of Illinois at Chicago | **University of Illinois at Chicago | ||
===2008 - [https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/content/who_we_are/annual_report/AnnualReport2008.pdf CTFK Annual Report - 2008]=== | |||
*Donors 16-18/24. Includes donations to CTFK AND TFKAF (Action Fund) (Not page numbers, they are document numbers) | |||
*Partners 29-21/24. (Not page numbers, they are document numbers) | |||
===2006 Nov 2 - [https://www.bloomberg.org/press/michael-bloomberg-announces-grantees-of-125-million-initiative-to-promote-freedom-from-smoking/ Michael Bloomberg Announces Grantees of $125 Million Initiative to Promote Freedom from Smoking]=== | |||
*Michael R. Bloomberg today named the five key partner organizations, which will implement his initiative, coordinating activities and providing grants to other organizations to promote freedom from smoking. The partners are the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(WHO)</span>, and the World Lung Foundation. Bloomberg’s $125 million, two-year contribution is many times larger than any prior donation for global tobacco control and more than doubles the global total of private and public donor resources devoted to fighting tobacco use in developing countries, where more than two thirds of the world’s smokers live. All of the resources are dedicated outside the United States to specifically benefit low- and middle-income countries. | |||
===1997 May 14 - [https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases/id_0106 National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids Launches World Wide Web Site]=== | ===1997 May 14 - [https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/press-releases/id_0106 National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids Launches World Wide Web Site]=== | ||
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**Launched Faith United Against Tobacco in 2002 to mobilize faith communities of all denominations to support proven solutions to reduce smoking. | **Launched Faith United Against Tobacco in 2002 to mobilize faith communities of all denominations to support proven solutions to reduce smoking. | ||
**October 2003, the Board authorized an additional $14 million for a three-year period to continue the work of the Center. | **October 2003, the Board authorized an additional $14 million for a three-year period to continue the work of the Center. | ||
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===2006 Nov 2 - [https://www.bloomberg.org/press/michael-bloomberg-announces-grantees-of-125-million-initiative-to-promote-freedom-from-smoking/ Michael Bloomberg Announces Grantees of $125 Million Initiative to Promote Freedom from Smoking]=== | |||
*Michael R. Bloomberg today named the five key partner organizations, which will implement his initiative, coordinating activities and providing grants to other organizations to promote freedom from smoking. The partners are the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(WHO)</span>, and the World Lung Foundation. Bloomberg’s $125 million, two-year contribution is many times larger than any prior donation for global tobacco control and more than doubles the global total of private and public donor resources devoted to fighting tobacco use in developing countries, where more than two thirds of the world’s smokers live. All of the resources are dedicated outside the United States to specifically benefit low- and middle-income countries. | |||
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==[https://www.bloomberg.org/public-health/strengthening-health-data/data-for-health/ Data for Health Initiative]== | ==[https://www.bloomberg.org/public-health/strengthening-health-data/data-for-health/ Data for Health Initiative]== | ||
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==Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC)== | ==[https://ggtc.world/about-ggtc Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC)]== | ||
*The Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) serves as the WHO FCTC Secretariat's Knowledge Hub on Article 5.3 for the protection against tobacco industry interference globally. | |||
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***School of Global Studies, Thammasat University | |||
***Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance ( SEATCA ) | |||
**Partners | |||
***Bloomberg Philanthropies STOP | |||
***Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) | |||
***<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> | |||
***University of Bath | |||
***Vital Strategies | |||
***WHO FCTC Secretariat | |||
==[https://advocacyincubator.org/ Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI)]== | ==[https://advocacyincubator.org/ Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI)]== | ||
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==[http://www.healthjustice.ph/?fbclid=IwAR1wp6zTSSha6qDxVfx2S46_-rHBvv5Bm0oWax9kF8k-Uazow-g-Zi7y-Dk HealthJustice Phillipines]== | ==[http://www.healthjustice.ph/?fbclid=IwAR1wp6zTSSha6qDxVfx2S46_-rHBvv5Bm0oWax9kF8k-Uazow-g-Zi7y-Dk HealthJustice Phillipines]== | ||
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==[http://www.healthdata.org/ Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)]== | |||
* 2017 July: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) launches with the goal of providing an impartial, evidence-based picture of global health trends to inform the work of policymakers, researchers, and funders. [http://www.healthdata.org/about/history Main supporters are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the state of Washington.] | |||
===[https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/about-site Think Global Health]=== | |||
*Think Global Health is an initiative of the [https://www.cfr.org/ Council on Foreign Relations] in collaboration with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation IHME at the University of Washington. Think Global Health was made possible by a generous grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. | |||
**Council on Foreign Relations list Michael Bloomberg as a donor and also Bloomberg Philanthropies as a donor on it's [https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2019-2020-donor-listing_final.pdf 2019-2020 Annual Report] | |||
===2019: [http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/policy_report/2019/Bloomberg-Tobacco-Brief_Mexico_Final_2019.11.25.pdf Assessment of Tobacco Use and Control MEXICO]=== | |||
*As part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública of Mexico (INSP) have conducted a comprehensive assessment of tobacco control policies in Mexico’s 32 states, examining their implications for tobacco use and its associated health outcomes. | |||
===2017: [http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/nearly-1-billion-people-still-smoke-daily Nearly 1 billion people still smoke daily]=== | |||
*A new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) was published today (April 5, 2017) in The Lancet. The study was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [https://www.thelancet.com/gbd The Lancet / GBD] | |||
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==[https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/institute-for-global-tobacco-control/index.html Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]== | ==[https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/institute-for-global-tobacco-control/index.html Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]== | ||
===2006 Nov 2 - [https://www.bloomberg.org/press/michael-bloomberg-announces-grantees-of-125-million-initiative-to-promote-freedom-from-smoking/ Michael Bloomberg Announces Grantees of $125 Million Initiative to Promote Freedom from Smoking]=== | |||
*Michael R. Bloomberg today named the five key partner organizations, which will implement his initiative, coordinating activities and providing grants to other organizations to promote freedom from smoking. The partners are the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(WHO)</span>, and the World Lung Foundation. Bloomberg’s $125 million, two-year contribution is many times larger than any prior donation for global tobacco control and more than doubles the global total of private and public donor resources devoted to fighting tobacco use in developing countries, where more than two thirds of the world’s smokers live. All of the resources are dedicated outside the United States to specifically benefit low- and middle-income countries. | |||
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==[https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/institute-for-global-tobacco-control/ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Institute for Global Tobacco Control]== | |||
==[https://www.globaltobaccocontrol.org/home Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Global Tobacco Control]== | |||
*globaltobaccocontrol.org provides online resources, including free online trainings, research-based reports and guides, and information on the capacity building programs of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | |||
*IGTC’s mission is to prevent death and disease from tobacco products by generating evidence to support effective tobacco control interventions. Operating within the three-pillar framework of knowledge generation, synthesis and translation; evaluation and surveillance; and capacity building, IGTC’s seeks to reduce tobacco use globally. | |||
*globaltobaccocontrol.org is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies as a part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. | |||
==<span style="background-color: rgb(229, 204, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">MPOWER</span>== | ==<span style="background-color: rgb(229, 204, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">MPOWER</span>== | ||
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==<span style="background-color: rgb(204, 229, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">STOP</span>== | ==[https://exposetobacco.org/about/ <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 229, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">STOP</span>]== | ||
*STOP is a partnership between the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and Vital Strategies <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(The Union)</span>, with US $20 million in funding to launch the partnership from Bloomberg Philanthropies. | |||
===2019: [https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Crooked-9-STOP.pdf Crooked Nine]=== | |||
===2018: [https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/major-funding-announcement-puts-bath-tcrg-at-centre-of-new-20-million-global-industry-watchdog/ Major funding announcement puts Bath TCRG at centre of new $20 million global industry watchdog]=== | |||
*Keywords: Bloomberg, STOP, Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG), Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), TobaccoTactics (website), Professor Anna Gilmore, Professor Jonathan Knight | |||
==[https://theunion.org/ <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease)]== | ==[https://theunion.org/ <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease)]== | ||
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**"The Investigative Desk is an independent platform for investigative journalism, focusing on large international industrial sectors such as defence & security, energy, food, pharmaceuticals & health care, and tobacco." | |||
**...from the Investigative Desk with support from the University of Bath...[https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/big-tobacco-big-avoidance/ here], and [https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/business-and-society/2021/02/02/big-tobacco-big-tax-abuse/ here], for example. | |||
*[https://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/big-tobacco-big-avoidance/attachments/Big_Tobacco_Big_Avoidance.pdf Report] (Note people involved) | |||
*[https://www.qeios.com/read/99DA06 Journalists criticize research on COVID-19 by confusing it with tobacco harm reduction and by making false allegations about conflicts] | |||
==[https:// | ===[https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-groups/tobacco-control-research-group/ Tobacco Control Research Group]=== | ||
* | *[https://www.bath.ac.uk/teams/tobacco-control-research-group-members/ Tobacco Control Research Group members] | ||
*[https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/major-funding-announcement-puts-bath-tcrg-at-centre-of-new-20-million-global-industry-watchdog/ Major funding announcement puts Bath TCRG at centre of new $20 million global industry watchdog] | |||
**With significant funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, our Tobacco Control Research Group will spearhead a brand new global tobacco industry watchdog. | |||
===2021 [https://www.uicc.org/blog/addressing-industry-profits-part-tobacco-control Dr Rob Branston]=== | |||
*Dr Rob Branston is Associate Professor in Business Economics in the School of Management and part of the Tobacco Control Research Group, at the University of Bath(link is external) in the UK. His primary research interests surround the governance and regulation of organisations, with a particular focus on the regulation and taxation of the global tobacco industry. Disclaimer: Dr Branston is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products. The funder had no role in the preparation of or decision to publish this editorial. | |||
==[https:// | ===2019 Dec 17: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hEmrH6kiszY0WOhvN73Q-xoD1Vb6Y0Vd/view Supplementary Terms and Conditions of Contract]=== | ||
*In order to ensure the University of Bath can comply with its obligations in the end contract with the Foundation, the Contractor confirms it will comply with the following project-specific terms and conditions | |||
*Foundation means Bloomberg, who is providing the funding to the University for the project that will fund this Contract | |||
**The Contractor shall not make any statement or otherwise imply to donors, investors, media or the general public that the Foundation directly funds its activities | |||
==[https://tobacconomics.org/ University of Illinois at Chicago]== | |||
*Tobacconomics is directed by Frank Chaloupka, PhD, and administered by the Institute for Health Research and Policy of the University of Illinois at Chicago. | |||
*[https://tobacconomics.org/files/research/636/uic-tobacco-scorecard-report-eng-v7.1.pdf University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)] ) is a partner of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use | |||
==[https://www.vitalstrategies.org/ Vital Strategies]== | |||
*[https://www.vitalstrategies.org/about-us/partners/ Partners] | |||
**We’re grateful to the funders who make our life-saving work possible. Our major funders are: | |||
***Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Fidelity Charitable, Foundation H&B Agerup, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, unicef, USAID United States Agency International Development | |||
**Partnering with Bloomberg Philanthropies to Advance Urban Health | |||
***Vital Strategies, working with <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span> | |||
**Civil Society, Health and Research Partners | |||
***African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET); Beijing Lisheng Cardiovascular Health Foundation (BLCHF); Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>; CDC Foundation; Clean Air Asia; Climate & Clean Air Coalition; DKI Jakarta; Eastern Africa GEOhealth; El Poder del Consumidor, Mexico; The Global Health Advocacy Incubator; Global New Car Assessment Programme; Global Road Safety Partnership; HEALA Alliance, South Africa; Health Effects Institute; Heart and Stroke Foundation, Barbados; The Heart Foundation of Jamaica; IDEC, Brazil; International Association of Chiefs of Police; Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp; International Road Assessment Programme; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Medical Research Council at University College London; Ministerio de Salud del Perú; National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh; NACTO-GDCI; Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); PATH; The Pew Charitable Trusts; Red PaPaz, Colombia; REDE-TB; SPARTAN; UNICEF Indonesia; <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of North Carolina; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; World Bank-GRSF; <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>; World Resources Institute; Yale School of Public Health | |||
==[http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/ <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>]== | ==[http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/ <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">World Health Organization (WHO)</span>]== | ||
===2006 Nov 2 - [https://www.bloomberg.org/press/michael-bloomberg-announces-grantees-of-125-million-initiative-to-promote-freedom-from-smoking/ Michael Bloomberg Announces Grantees of $125 Million Initiative to Promote Freedom from Smoking]=== | |||
*Michael R. Bloomberg today named the five key partner organizations, which will implement his initiative, coordinating activities and providing grants to other organizations to promote freedom from smoking. The partners are the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(WHO)</span>, and the World Lung Foundation. Bloomberg’s $125 million, two-year contribution is many times larger than any prior donation for global tobacco control and more than doubles the global total of private and public donor resources devoted to fighting tobacco use in developing countries, where more than two thirds of the world’s smokers live. All of the resources are dedicated outside the United States to specifically benefit low- and middle-income countries. | |||
===[https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/World_Health_Organization More Information]=== | |||
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**WLF is a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The goal of the Initiative is to reduce tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries, where 80% of the 6 million deaths resulting from tobacco use took place in 2011. WLF = funds and supports mass media ad campaigns on the harmful effects of smoking and other forms of tobacco use. WLF has supported 80 tobacco control mass media campaigns in 20 countries. WLF disbursed millions from Bloomberg Philanthropies to The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>), the World Health Organization, the Framework Convention Alliance, and the CDC Foundation to strengthen their tobacco control activities and to support its own mass media programs. Other partners in the Bloomberg Initiative are Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. | **WLF is a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The goal of the Initiative is to reduce tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries, where 80% of the 6 million deaths resulting from tobacco use took place in 2011. WLF = funds and supports mass media ad campaigns on the harmful effects of smoking and other forms of tobacco use. WLF has supported 80 tobacco control mass media campaigns in 20 countries. WLF disbursed millions from Bloomberg Philanthropies to The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>), the World Health Organization, the Framework Convention Alliance, and the CDC Foundation to strengthen their tobacco control activities and to support its own mass media programs. Other partners in the Bloomberg Initiative are Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span> and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. | ||
===2006 Nov 2 - [https://www.bloomberg.org/press/michael-bloomberg-announces-grantees-of-125-million-initiative-to-promote-freedom-from-smoking/ Michael Bloomberg Announces Grantees of $125 Million Initiative to Promote Freedom from Smoking]=== | |||
*Michael R. Bloomberg today named the five key partner organizations, which will implement his initiative, coordinating activities and providing grants to other organizations to promote freedom from smoking. The partners are the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">('''CTFK''')</span>, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization <span style="background-color: rgb(204, 255, 204);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">(WHO)</span>, and the World Lung Foundation. Bloomberg’s $125 million, two-year contribution is many times larger than any prior donation for global tobacco control and more than doubles the global total of private and public donor resources devoted to fighting tobacco use in developing countries, where more than two thirds of the world’s smokers live. All of the resources are dedicated outside the United States to specifically benefit low- and middle-income countries. | |||
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===2021 May 14 - [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-14/teens-addicted-to-juul-flavor-pods-have-parents-furious-devil-s-playbook?fbclid=IwAR3V2Xm1JaW4VVcMTk8O1qTTlcjJT_4eFp-Plqn5KHkVDRntjfJw-CU0y_w Juul Finds Hell Hath No Fury Like an Army of Really Rich Parents]=== | |||
*Pete Briger is the billionaire co-CEO at Fortress Investment Group. Briger had made a career at Goldman Sachs as a trader in distressed debt, raking in untold sums for the bank and becoming a pre-IPO partner before moving to Fortress and opening an office for the firm in San Francisco. | |||
*David Burke was a former managing director of the Stanford Management Co., where he oversaw private equity and venture capital investments for the university’s endowment. He’d had a long career at Makena Capital Management, an investment management firm he started with another Stanford alum, and he sat on numerous boards, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the University of Virginia, and Sacred Heart. | |||
*Many people knew Jim Steyer because of his younger brother, Tom, the billionaire founder of the San Francisco hedge fund Farallon Capital Management and a former member of Stanford’s board of trustees. Jim was eminent in his own right, as a civil rights professor at Stanford and longtime advocate for children. A believer in the power of early education to beget a just and thriving society, Steyer had founded a group called Children Now, which helped shape policy in California and across the nation around issues such as access to immunizations and health insurance. Steyer had also long been concerned with youth exposure to sex, violence, and commercialism in media, and in 2003 he’d started another nonprofit, Common Sense Media. Originally a source for movie and media ratings for parents, it had become a grassroots army, with almost 150 million users. | |||
*Meanwhile in New York, a well-connected group of angry mothers whose own children had become all too familiar with Juul began organizing a group that was eventually called Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes, or PAVe. | |||
*Over the next year the fury of powerful parents like Briger, Burke, and Steyer was echoed by more American moms and dads who’d discovered Juul devices stashed in their kids’ backpacks or colorful plastic nicotine pods littering their bedrooms. The tide soon began to turn against Silicon Valley’s most dazzling startup. '''Briger and Burke donated money to a prominent Stanford researcher who evangelized about the dangers of tobacco use and vaping. Briger also became the first donor to <span style="background-color: rgb(200, 400, 700);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">PAVe (Parents Against Vaping e-Cigarettes)</span>''', which went on to mobilize activists in almost every state to support antivaping laws and influence policy debates about e-cigarettes in city halls and statehouses, and, at least once, in the White House. Steyer and others joined a pitched battle in San Francisco against Juul that resulted in upholding a moratorium on e-cigarette sales in the city, kneecapping the company in its hometown. (Michael Bloomberg, majority owner of Bloomberg LP, which publishes Bloomberg Businessweek, was the largest donor to the campaign.) | |||
*Quoted from an excerpt of The Devil’s Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation, by Lauren Etter. | |||
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===2021 Apr 7: [https://www.parentsagainstvaping.org/conference Clear the Vapor Conference 2021: The Way Forward]=== | ===2021 Apr 7: [https://www.parentsagainstvaping.org/conference Clear the Vapor Conference 2021: The Way Forward]=== | ||
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:::'''Gabriel Glissmeyer''' (National LGBT Cancer Network) | :::'''Gabriel Glissmeyer''' (National LGBT Cancer Network) | ||
:::'''Rae O'Leary''', (Missouri Breaks Research on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, testified to the U.S. Congress on the youth e-cigarette epidemic and JUUL’s attempts to target Native people) | :::'''Rae O'Leary''', (Missouri Breaks Research on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, testified to the U.S. Congress on the youth e-cigarette epidemic and JUUL’s attempts to target Native people) | ||
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===[https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax]=== | |||
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==Bloomberg Philanthropies== | ==[https://www.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Philanthropies]== | ||
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*Article about his business endevours, his companies, and the people who work for him. | *Article about his business endevours, his companies, and the people who work for him. | ||
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==2021 Jul 25: [https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/25/uk-report-slams-bloomberg-for-undermining-rights-of-consumers-in-lmics/ UK report slams Bloomberg for undermining rights of consumers in LMICs]== | |||
*A report issued by a parliamentary group in the United Kingdom criticized anti-vaping groups funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies for being hostile to tobacco harm reduction (THR) and for diminishing the rights of consumers and vapers in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as the Philippines. | |||
*The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Vaping Inquiry (APPG) said these anti-vaping “civil society observers” were allowed to participate in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties 9 (FCTC COP 9) in November this year, concluding that the WHO continues to attempt to discredit UK’s science and policy approach to address the smoking problem. It said THR is a public health approach which is supposedly one of the original commitments of FCTC. | |||
==2021 Jun 15: [https://cei.org/blog/exposed-bloombergs-anti-tobacco-meddling-in-developing-countries/ Exposed: Bloomberg’s Anti-Tobacco Meddling in Developing Countries]== | |||
*Extensive Report | |||
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==2021 Feb 2: [https://insidesources.com/bloombergs-philanthro-colonialism-a-threat-to-global-health-and-science/ Bloomberg’s Philanthro-Colonialism: A Threat to Global Health and Science]== | |||
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*2021 Mar 31: CALL IT COLONIALISM Bloomberg’s War on Vaping Part 2: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PLvi4qgiE Michelle Minton] | *2021 Mar 31: CALL IT COLONIALISM Bloomberg’s War on Vaping Part 2: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3PLvi4qgiE Michelle Minton] | ||
*2021 Apr 3: SCRUTINIZED Bloomberg’s War on Vaping Part 3: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9q9QJpZegg Dr. Roberto Sussman] | *2021 Apr 3: SCRUTINIZED Bloomberg’s War on Vaping Part 3: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9q9QJpZegg Dr. Roberto Sussman] | ||
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==='''2018 Aug 28 - [https://cei.org/studies/law-enforcement-for-rent/ Law Enforcement for Rent]''' (thorough report)=== | |||
*Author’s Note: This paper is based on documents obtained over two and a half years from open records requests and, in some cases, subsequent litigation. Due to the volume of records, not all cited records are included in the body of this paper. Key documents are provided in the paper’s appendix, which can be accessed at CEI.org. The complete collection of documents cited in this paper is available at ClimateLitigationWatch.org, a project of the nonprofit public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight. | |||
==='''[https://climatelitigationwatch.org/attorney-general-paper/ Extensive collection of documents - compliments above article]'''=== | |||
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===2021 Apr 25 - [https://insidesources.com/bloomberg-blasted-for-using-billions-to-block-vaccines-for-tobacco-company-workers/ Bloomberg Blasted for Using Billions to Block Vaccines for Tobacco Company Workers]=== | ===2021 Apr 25 - [https://insidesources.com/bloomberg-blasted-for-using-billions-to-block-vaccines-for-tobacco-company-workers/ Bloomberg Blasted for Using Billions to Block Vaccines for Tobacco Company Workers]=== | ||
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===2020 Feb 18 - [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-network-climate-lawyers-ag Bloomberg’s ‘mercenaries’: Billionaire Dem funding network of climate lawyers inside state AG offices]=== | |||
*The arrangement, which currently pays the salaries of Special Assistant Attorneys General (SAAGs) in 10 Democratic AG offices, is drawing new scrutiny now that Bloomberg is running for president. The New York University School of Law's State Energy & Environmental Impact Center, which was started in 2017 with $5.6 million from Bloomberg's nonprofit, hires mid-career lawyers as "research fellows" before providing them to state AGs where they assist in pursuing "progressive" policy goals through the courts. | |||
===2020 Feb 16 - [https://insidesources.com/bloomberg-privately-funds-attorneys-in-state-ag-offices-while-running-for-president/ Bloomberg Privately Funds Attorneys in State AG Offices While Running for President]=== | |||
*Michael Bloomberg’s billions aren’t just buying ads. In at least two Super Tuesday states, his money funds private lawyers working inside attorneys general offices, advancing his political agenda on the environment. | |||
*Massachusetts and Minnesota, whose Democratic voters will go to the polls on Super Tuesday, are among at least 10 states where activist attorneys are working for the state AGs offices but are paid through the Impact Center. Their mission is to promote state legal action to advance Bloomberg’s political views, such as lawsuits against energy companies. | |||
===2020 Jan 04 - [https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/04/michael-bloomberg-donald-trump/ Republican AGs Say Bloomberg Is Secretly Embedding An Army Of Anti-Trump Attorneys Inside State Offices]=== | |||
*“What’s problematic is the arrangement through which a private organization or individual can promote an overtly political agenda by paying the salaries of government employees,” Indiana Attorney General (AG) Curtis Hill, a Republican, told the Daily Caller News Foundation, citing a common criticism of New York University’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center (SEEIC). | |||
===2018 Nov 06 - [https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-ags-for-rent-1541549567 State AGs for Rent]=== | |||
*Subscription site | |||
===2018 Oct 10 - [https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/10/09/bloomberg_funds_green_work_of_democrat_state_attorneys_offices.html How Bloomberg Embeds Green Warriors in Blue-State Governments]=== | |||
*Although many government agencies have employees funded by outside sources, critics say using special interest money for targeted government action is inappropriate. Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who wrote a report on the NYU center, said the fellowships come with specific strings attached. “[AG] offices must agree to use prosecutors to ‘advance progressive clean energy, climate change, and environmental legal positions,’” Horner said. | |||
*Personally and through his political groups, Bloomberg has also donated millions of dollars to Democratic attorneys general campaigns in this midterm election cycle. For Democratic campaigns in general, he has announced plans to spend $80 million this year. | |||
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===2022 Apr 04 - [https://climatelitigationwatch.org/minnesota-ag-race-becomes-interesting-thanks-to-participation-in-bloomberg-saags-scheme/ Minnesota AG Race Becomes Interesting Thanks to Participation in Bloomberg “SAAGs” Scheme]=== | |||
*Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, a bit less popular now in that rather chaotic state than four years ago, has three Republicans vying for their party’s nomination to take him on. Apparently all of them are committed, if elected, to firing the “Special Assistant Attorneys General” provided Ellison by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg | |||
*Lots of links in this article to investigate! | |||
===2022 Feb 25 - [https://climatelitigationwatch.org/bloomberg-saag-withdraws-from-ellison-climate-case-she-filed/ Bloomberg “SAAG” Withdraws from Ellison “Climate” Case She Filed]=== | |||
*That SAAG is Leigh Currie (the remaining SAAG is Peter Surdo, who boasted on his LinkedIn site he had been “embedded” in Ellison’s Office). That suit is the one that we now know was orchestrated by the Rockefeller Family Fund using local cutout greens — and a UMinn academic who rather incredibly put a memo pushing the suit, ghost co-written by “the lawyers advising Rockefeller family fund,” on University stationery — and which was held until the Bloomberg group provided the Office with the lawyers who, yes, did in fact file the suit. | |||
===2022 Feb 10 - [https://eidclimate.org/minnesota-considers-legislation-to-block-attorney-general-from-accepting-bloomberg-attorneys/ MINNESOTA CONSIDERS LEGISLATION TO BLOCK ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM ACCEPTING BLOOMBERG ATTORNEYS]=== | |||
*As EID Climate has noted before, Attorney General Keith Ellison currently employees two Special Assistant Attorneys General (SAAGs) who are not Minnesota state government employees, but rather have been placed in the Ellison’s office by the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at the NYU Law School, which also pays their salaries. The center was started in 2017 thanks to a $5.6 million grant from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the arrangement has drawn intense criticism for allowing privately-funded organizations to gain a foothold in taxpayer-funded state government offices to carry out particular agenda. | |||
===2021 Nov 11 - [https://climatelitigationwatch.org/amicus-brief-mn-ag-ellisons-troubling-position-to-keep-bloomberg-related-records-secret/ Amicus Brief: MN AG Ellison’s “Troubling Position” to Keep Bloomberg-Related Records Secret]=== | |||
*Non-profit transparency groups Public Records Media and the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information held a press conference Wednesday to announce they filed an amicus brief with the Minnesota State Supreme Court in Energy Policy Advocates v. Ellison, a Government Data Practices Act (open records) case over emails pertaining to Ellison’s involvement in the climate litigation industry. | |||
*That case addresses Ellison’s move to expand Minnesota law, claiming a sweeping version of “common interest” exemption to the waiver of privilege, in order to keep from the public his Office’s correspondence pertaining to multi-state progressive AG efforts to impose the climate agenda through the courts, to bring on privately hired, Michael Bloomberg financed attorneys to assist with that campaign, and to work with other third parties toward the same end. | |||
===2021 Jun 21 - [https://climatelitigationwatch.org/mn-oag-used-bloomberg-provided-attorney-in-coordinating-with-outside-activists-to-tout-climate-suit/ MN OAG Used Bloomberg-provided Attorney in Coordinating with Outside-Activists to Tout Climate Suit]=== | |||
*From records produced by the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General, Leigh Currie — an outside activist and one of two lawyers provided by a Michael Bloomberg group to file a lawsuit against energy companies — was also tasked with helping the Office’s “outreach” and media folks prep surrogates to promote the filing of that suit. | |||
===2021 May 18 - '''[https://climatelitigationwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GAO-EPA-CCI-RFF-Climate-Paper.pdf Private Funders, Public Institutions: ‘Climate’ Litigation and a Crisis of Integrity (Report)]'''=== | |||
*Extensive Report | |||
===2021 Jan 07 - [https://www.startribune.com/agenda-dollars-are-buying-state-government-jobs/600015808/ Agenda dollars are buying state government jobs]=== | |||
*Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appealed to Bloomberg's priorities in his application to NYU, even hinting at investigating energy companies if he was given some privately paid for hired help. Minnesota's AG office landed not one but two of these full-time Bloomberg staffers. They are paid by NYU not the state of Minnesota. According to a Fox News report, NYU files "biweekly reports on its activities" with Bloomberg Philanthropies. | |||
*Bloomberg must be pleased with his Minnesota investment. According to a June 24, 2020, Star Tribune article, his two lawyers filed a lawsuit against several oil companies and refiners hoping to replicate Minnesota's first-in-the-nation tobacco litigation that made a Minnesota law firm's partners into mega-millionaires. | |||
===2020 Feb 16 - [https://insidesources.com/bloomberg-privately-funds-attorneys-in-state-ag-offices-while-running-for-president/ Bloomberg Privately Funds Attorneys in State AG Offices While Running for President]=== | |||
*Michael Bloomberg’s billions aren’t just buying ads. In at least two Super Tuesday states, his money funds private lawyers working inside attorneys general offices, advancing his political agenda on the environment. | |||
*Massachusetts and Minnesota, whose Democratic voters will go to the polls on Super Tuesday, are among at least 10 states where activist attorneys are working for the state AGs offices but are paid through the Impact Center. Their mission is to promote state legal action to advance Bloomberg’s political views, such as lawsuits against energy companies. | |||
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==AG Oregon== | |||
===2020 Dec 16 - [https://climatelitigationwatch.org/new-records-suit-re-climate-litigation-industry-oregon-ag-sued-for-improperly-hiding-calendar-entries-for-bloomberg-provided-special-assistant-attorney-general/ New Records Suit re Climate Litigation Industry: Oregon AG Sued for Improperly Hiding Calendar Entries for Bloomberg-provided “Special Assistant Attorney General”]=== | |||
*The public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) has filed suit under Oregon’s Public Records Law against Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and the State Department of Justice (DoJ), on behalf of the nonprofit transparency group Energy Policy Advocates, seeking to compel release of scores of hidden calendar entries of “Special Assistant Attorney General” (or SAAG) Steve Novick. | |||
*Mr. Novick was hired and provided to DoJ as a “SAAG” by a group created by billionaire, major Democratic party donor and climate activist Michael Bloomberg to support AGs to pursue a political agenda — “advancing progressive clean energy, climate change, and environmental legal positions”. | |||
*These heavily redacted records are records of a precise class that the Department of Justice has previously released with few redactions. Indeed, cross-referencing the Department of Justice’s release of, e.g., Mr. Novick’s colleague Paul Garrahan’s calendar plainly documents the improper withholding and secrecy with which the Department of Justice treats this privately hired attorney’s calendar, both generally and regarding specific withholdings | |||
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===2022 Apr 20 - [https://climatelitigationwatch.org/climate-foia-public-prevails-court-orders-virginia-ag-office-to-comply-with-the-law-re-bloomberg-docs/ Climate FOIA: Public Prevails, Court Orders Virginia AG Office to Comply With the Law Re Bloomberg Docs]=== | |||
*Long dragged-out case, filed in 2018, takes major step toward educating further on Bloomberg “SAAGs” scheme, and aborted (by phone) Virginia AG participation | |||
*Virginia citizen Christopher Horner and the free-market public policy group Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) prevailed yet again yesterday in their lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act. | |||
===2021 Jan 21 - [https://climatelitigationwatch.org/court-again-orders-virginia-ag-to-answer-foia-suit-seeking-bloomberg-related-records/ Court (Again) Orders Virginia AG to Answer FOIA Suit Seeking Bloomberg-related Records]=== | |||
*At a hearing in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday — the third hearing in a (so far) two-and-a-quarter year saga to obtain records that previously did not exist but now magically do — the Office of the Virginia Attorney General was ordered to file an answer in a November 2018 VFOIA lawsuit by Government Accountability & Oversight board member Chris Horner and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. | |||
*That suit requested records related to AG Mark Herring’s rather fevered, successful — and then suddenly dropped — pursuit of Michael Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant Attorneys General” “to advance the agenda represented by” Bloomberg’s climate group. | |||
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===2017: [https://www.mikebloomberg.com/news/soda-sales-mexico-continue-decline-since-sugary-beverage-tax-began-two-years-ago/ Soda Sales in Mexico Continue to Decline Since Sugary Beverage Tax in First Two Years]=== | |||
* Bloomberg Philanthropies Obesity Prevention Program | |||
===2013: [https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/bloomberg-gets-caught-mexico-soda-tax-fight-8c11375234 Bloomberg gets caught up in Mexico soda tax fight]=== | |||
*Bloomberg's charity has contributed to Mexican pro-tax groups. | |||
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===2019 Nov 14 - [https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-bloombergs-comments-about-women-and-rape-will-haunt-him-2019-11?fbclid=IwAR3T3VkVbRXS5b37nU-IxFnRbG2tyDUwMukiuC7-wdFyfEAzFcWsHuW16gk Michael Bloomberg's past comments about women and rape will likely haunt him on the 2020 campaign trail]=== | ===2019 Nov 14 - [https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-bloombergs-comments-about-women-and-rape-will-haunt-him-2019-11?fbclid=IwAR3T3VkVbRXS5b37nU-IxFnRbG2tyDUwMukiuC7-wdFyfEAzFcWsHuW16gk Michael Bloomberg's past comments about women and rape will likely haunt him on the 2020 campaign trail]=== | ||
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===[https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Bloomberg&action=edit§ion=193 Vietnam Vet Vendor Still Sleeping In Hot Dog Cart After Mayor Bloomberg Breaks Promise]=== | |||
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=== [https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/3-40/v1 Balancing science and political economy: Tobacco control and global health]=== | |||
===2022: [https://medium.com/the-great-vape-debate/the-unchecked-power-of-philanthropy-e71e426b91b8 The unchecked power of philanthropy]=== | |||
===[https://intpolicydigest.org/bloomberg-s-anti-vaping-policies-are-exploitative-and-wrong/ Bloomberg’s Anti-Vaping Policies are Exploitative and Wrong]=== | |||
===[https://medium.com/@INNCO.org/the-who-tells-us-dont-say-safer-anymore-27c9c00dcf65 The WHO tells us: Don’t say “safer” anymore!]=== | |||
===[https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2021-05-19_bloomberg-orgs-block-kids-hospital.html Bloomberg Orgs Block Kids Hospital]=== | |||
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