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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg-Wikipedia ] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg-Wikipedia ] ex-Mayor of New York, has devoted much of his time and fortune to anti-smoking campaigns. In September 2019, his philanthropic arm made a $160 million [https://www.bloomberg.org/press/releases/bloomberg-philanthropies-launches-new-160-million-program-end-youth-e-cigarette-epidemic/ three-year commitment] to anti-vaping campaigns with goals including enacting bans of all flavored e-cigarettes. While this endeavour is led by [[Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids]], his funding and influence are not confined to the United States alone. | ||
='''Nicotine Products'''= | ='''Nicotine Products'''= | ||
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*In addition to the arbitrariness in the legislative process, it was discovered thanks to the document metadata that a prediction of the Mexican Parliament that proposes bans on vaping was written by an Argentine lawyer advising the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , an anti-vaping NGO financed by Michael Bloomberg. In the metadata of the official document, the Argentine lawyer [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Gianella_Severini Gianella Severini], appears as the author of the PDF, who is the legal advisor for Latin America of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> and Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) for the “Promotion of public health policies for the prevention of obesity and tobacco control.” | *In addition to the arbitrariness in the legislative process, it was discovered thanks to the document metadata that a prediction of the Mexican Parliament that proposes bans on vaping was written by an Argentine lawyer advising the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , an anti-vaping NGO financed by Michael Bloomberg. In the metadata of the official document, the Argentine lawyer [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Gianella_Severini Gianella Severini], appears as the author of the PDF, who is the legal advisor for Latin America of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> and Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) for the “Promotion of public health policies for the prevention of obesity and tobacco control.” | ||
*For many years, the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , a US transnational organization with strong operations in Latin America, has based its actions on a clear and manifest incitement for governments to establish public policies based on their spectrum of interests and within their ideological field. | *For many years, the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , a US transnational organization with strong operations in Latin America, has based its actions on a clear and manifest incitement for governments to establish public policies based on their spectrum of interests and within their ideological field. | ||
*“It is curious that in the metadata of said document, a person named Gianella Severini appears as its author, the legal advisor for Latin America for the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , which, together with The Union, both financed by Bloomberg Philanthropies, have its parameters of action influence the public policies of third world countries to seek laws that prohibit the use of said alternatives. These NGOs have also put money in Conadic, the INSP and different state health secretariats. It is worth mentioning that some time ago Undersecretary López Gatell has been linked to these positions and financing. | *“It is curious that in the metadata of said document, a person named Gianella Severini appears as its author, the legal advisor for Latin America for the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , which, together with <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span>, both financed by Bloomberg Philanthropies, have its parameters of action influence the public policies of third world countries to seek laws that prohibit the use of said alternatives. These NGOs have also put money in Conadic, the INSP and different state health secretariats. It is worth mentioning that some time ago Undersecretary López Gatell has been linked to these positions and financing. | ||
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*Congresswoman Medel never explained the reasons for this exclusion. However, SS officials have been known to consistently claim (privately and online) that those who oppose or disagree with their position on vaporizers are agents of the tobacco companies. With this argument they argue that article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) prohibits any dialogue with them. | *Congresswoman Medel never explained the reasons for this exclusion. However, SS officials have been known to consistently claim (privately and online) that those who oppose or disagree with their position on vaporizers are agents of the tobacco companies. With this argument they argue that article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) prohibits any dialogue with them. | ||
*In the forum in question, Mr. Erick Antonio Ochoa, director of the Salud Justa civil association, linked to the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> and the Bloomberg Foundation, emphasized this idea. He dedicated himself to slander Pro Vapeo México as the “front” of the tobacco industry, without providing any proof of his accusations. It is curious that Salud Justa accuses an association like Pro Vapeo México, which lacks a bank account, of having conflicts of interest, while Mr. Ochoa does not declare his sources of financing and the conflicts of interest of his own association. | *In the forum in question, Mr. Erick Antonio Ochoa, director of the Salud Justa civil association, linked to the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> and the Bloomberg Foundation, emphasized this idea. He dedicated himself to slander Pro Vapeo México as the “front” of the tobacco industry, without providing any proof of his accusations. It is curious that Salud Justa accuses an association like Pro Vapeo México, which lacks a bank account, of having conflicts of interest, while Mr. Ochoa does not declare his sources of financing and the conflicts of interest of his own association. | ||
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===2015 Nov - [https://www.who.int/tobacco/about/partners/bloomberg/mex/en/?fbclid=IwAR0ejQKPOaCCRqbsxxAWRKHmfiGZCaMk7RhHSjsMhzZL7U6GhivEyaAd4UI Tobacco control in Mexico]=== | ===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). | *WHO Bloomberg Initiative work in Mexico - The <span style="background-color: rgb(229, 204, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">MPOWER</span> 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. | *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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==LMIC's / "Philanthropic Colonialism" (General / Multiple Countries)== | ==LMIC's / "Philanthropic Colonialism" (General / Multiple Countries)== | ||
==Thailand== | ==Thailand== | ||
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='''Funding Anti-Nicotine NGO's, Organizations, Groups, Projects, Causes, etc.'''= | ='''Funding Anti-Nicotine NGO's, Organizations, Groups, Projects, Causes, etc.'''= | ||
==[https://www.bloomberg.org/ Bloomberg Philanthropies]== | |||
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==MPOWER== | ==<span style="background-color: rgb(229, 204, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">MPOWER</span>== | ||
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==[https://theunion.org/ The Union (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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=P.S. What about Hale and investors in the project?= | ='''P.S. What about Hale and investors in the project?'''= | ||
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*The problem is that one of the investors in the company is none other than Michael Bloomberg himself . Through a venture capital consortium called Village Global , which is also made up of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, Bloomberg has provided seed capital to Hava, the creator of Hale. | *The problem is that one of the investors in the company is none other than Michael Bloomberg himself . Through a venture capital consortium called Village Global , which is also made up of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, Bloomberg has provided seed capital to Hava, the creator of Hale. | ||
=Photos / Graphics - Nicotine= | ='''Photos / Graphics - Nicotine'''= | ||
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*Health Justice (Philippines) gets a grant from Mike Bloomberg to implement its tobacco control plans | *Health Justice (Philippines) gets a grant from Mike Bloomberg to implement its tobacco control plans | ||
=Highlight Guide= | ='''Highlight Guide'''= | ||
*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> | *<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> | ||
*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 229);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">The Union</span> | |||
*<span style="background-color: rgb(229, 204, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">MPOWER</span> | |||
[[Category:Media - Movies, Videos, Vlogs, Blogs, OpEds, News, etc.]] [[Category: People of note]] [[Category: Tobacco control groups]] | [[Category:Media - Movies, Videos, Vlogs, Blogs, OpEds, News, etc.]] [[Category: People of note]] [[Category: Tobacco control groups]] | ||