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===2020 | ===2020 Oct 1 - [https://tobaccoreporter.com/2020/10/01/roberto-sussman/?fbclid=IwAR2-fZEnRCSvIoPOFcfmpHQNTQGmmY3s3xp_DaihOItfpsDUtMx0J0_ag-o Roberto Sussman (GTNF) Global Tobacco Nicotine Forum]=== | ||
* | *These are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies and associated charities like the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, acting in synergy with small but influential groups of health professionals clustered in the tobacco control sections of government public health institutions. | ||
*One of the most powerful officials in the government of Lopez Obrador is Dr. Hugo Lopez-Gatell. He’s an epidemiologist, and he has strong links with the Pan American Health Organization and with Bloomberg Philanthropies. He’s also the health minister. And at the same time, together with this appointment was a massive increase of lobbing activity by Bloomberg Philanthropies in the whole region,” says Sussman. “This [is] how Bloomberg works in our countries. First, they set up NGOs that they use as lobbying machines. This lobbying is done through the WHO or the Pan American Health Organization. Now, health ministries and government, they get grants from Bloomberg, but they will never say [that].” | |||
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*There are structural reasons for Bloomberg’s philanthropy to focus its efforts on LMICs: (1) these countries often welcome external private funds given the chronic lack of resources and personnel in their health ministries and public health institutions, and (2) most governments of LMICs are non-democratic regimes, with vertical, non-transparent public health bureaucracies always ready for wheeling and dealing. Thus, all it takes for a policy to be officially enacted is to lobby and convince the head of government, or a sufficiently influential group among high-ranking health officials. | *There are structural reasons for Bloomberg’s philanthropy to focus its efforts on LMICs: (1) these countries often welcome external private funds given the chronic lack of resources and personnel in their health ministries and public health institutions, and (2) most governments of LMICs are non-democratic regimes, with vertical, non-transparent public health bureaucracies always ready for wheeling and dealing. Thus, all it takes for a policy to be officially enacted is to lobby and convince the head of government, or a sufficiently influential group among high-ranking health officials. | ||
*Spanish version available [https://thevapingtoday.com/la-guerra-contra-el-vapeo-de-bloomberg-se-expande-a-america-latina-y-mas-alla/?fbclid=IwAR0P9YGdhH63aW42JvohSk7aGzzpycGM8Xim-09KT-rqXdMswCSzVVp8wgg here] | *Spanish version available [https://thevapingtoday.com/la-guerra-contra-el-vapeo-de-bloomberg-se-expande-a-america-latina-y-mas-alla/?fbclid=IwAR0P9YGdhH63aW42JvohSk7aGzzpycGM8Xim-09KT-rqXdMswCSzVVp8wgg here] | ||
===2020 Feb 24 - [https://vaping360.com/vape-news/88831/mexico-bans-import-of-all-vaping-products-cites-who-guidance/?fbclid=IwAR0yLJL81sGyd52old7RdSX5_jFFadLJn-UiDDZQP1hw3LKCTuX2dzNJB0Y Mexico Bans Import of All Vaping Products, Cites WHO Guidance]=== | |||
*However, the primary reason cited for the ban is the ideology of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Bloomberg-funded tobacco control arm the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). | |||
*The bottom line for Mexico is that WHO/FCTC recommends prohibition when possible, and the government thinks it’s possible. Countries that follow WHO dogma on e-cigarette policy are rewarded with huge grants for public health programs that employ many people. Much of the funding for the WHO’s tobacco control programs is provided by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. | |||
===2015 Nov - [https://www.who.int/tobacco/about/partners/bloomberg/mex/en/?fbclid=IwAR0ejQKPOaCCRqbsxxAWRKHmfiGZCaMk7RhHSjsMhzZL7U6GhivEyaAd4UI Tobacco control in Mexico]=== | |||
*WHO Bloomberg Initiative work in Mexico - The MPOWER measures that Mexico is implementing at the highest level of achievement are: implementing health warnings to warn people about the dangers of tobacco use and offering help to quit tobacco use (cessation programmes). | |||
*In working with the Ministry of Health and other partners, the overall goal of the WHO-BI work in Mexico was to support the government to strengthen country’s capacity for tobacco control and run sustainable tobacco control programmes that have an immediate impact on Mexico’s tobacco epidemic. | |||
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='''Funding Anti-Nicotine NGO's, Organizations, Groups, etc.'''= | ='''Funding Anti-Nicotine NGO's, Organizations, Groups, Projects, Causes, etc.'''= | ||
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==Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC)== | ==Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC)== | ||
==MPOWER== | |||
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='''Nicotine - Friends / Associates of Bloomberg'''= | ='''Nicotine Foes - Friends / Associates of Bloomberg'''= | ||