Michael Bloomberg: Difference between revisions

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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.

~~===Vaccine Scandal - Unintended Consequences (Philippine)===~~

*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 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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**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]

===Vaccine Scandal - Unintended Consequences (Philippine)===