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===2021 Mar 25 - [https://thevapingtoday.com/scandal-in-mexico/?fbclid=IwAR0YO-zsbqS-dfYMdYmhsNcYTL5WpFUiFnSRs8WUcNwz_QWkM4x3lhicB4U Scandal in Mexico]=== | ===2021 Mar 25 - [https://thevapingtoday.com/scandal-in-mexico/?fbclid=IwAR0YO-zsbqS-dfYMdYmhsNcYTL5WpFUiFnSRs8WUcNwz_QWkM4x3lhicB4U Scandal in Mexico]=== | ||
*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 Campaign | *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 Campaign | *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, | *“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. | ||
===2020 Oct 1 - [https://tobaccoreporter.com/2020/10/01/roberto-sussman/?fbclid=IwAR2-fZEnRCSvIoPOFcfmpHQNTQGmmY3s3xp_DaihOItfpsDUtMx0J0_ag-o Roberto Sussman (GTNF) Global Tobacco Nicotine Forum]=== | ===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 | *These are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies and associated charities like the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , 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].” | *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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===2012 [https://www.ficargentina.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/memoria_fic_2012_web.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0lcVN2LrPX8FIKF41xWsF-Qd02a9alW7R6Ts9aTjR0Dnr6NdepPAvbDKo FIC Argentina]=== | ===2012 [https://www.ficargentina.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/memoria_fic_2012_web.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0lcVN2LrPX8FIKF41xWsF-Qd02a9alW7R6Ts9aTjR0Dnr6NdepPAvbDKo FIC Argentina]=== | ||
* See photo of financial supporters in the photo section at the bottom of the section on Nicotine / Tobacco. Note Bloomberg under the graphic for | * See photo of financial supporters in the photo section at the bottom of the section on Nicotine / Tobacco. Note Bloomberg under the graphic for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> | ||
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==[https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/ Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids]== | ==[https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/ <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> ]== | ||
===2019, Sep 10 - [https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-09-09/bloomberg-philanthropies-launches-160m-initiative-to-battle-youth-e-cigarette-epidemic A New Effort to End an E-Cigarette 'Epidemic']=== | ===2019, Sep 10 - [https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-09-09/bloomberg-philanthropies-launches-160m-initiative-to-battle-youth-e-cigarette-epidemic A New Effort to End an E-Cigarette 'Epidemic']=== | ||
*Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Tuesday it is joining forces with the nonprofit Campaign for Tobacco | *Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Tuesday it is joining forces with the nonprofit <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> on a $160 million initiative. | ||
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==[https://advocacyincubator.org/ Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI)]== | ==[https://advocacyincubator.org/ Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI)]== | ||
*The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), a program of the Campaign for Tobacco | *The Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), a program of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> , draws on lessons from tobacco control and its growing experience on other public health issues to support policy change campaigns around the globe to improve health. To date, that work includes food policy and cardiovascular health, road safety, drowning prevention, preventing epidemics, and vital statistics. | ||
*As part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Food Policy Program (FPP), GHAI supports civil society organizations to pass and implement key policies to develop healthier food environments, including: taxes on unhealthy food and beverage products; mandatory front-of-package nutrition warning labels; restrictions on marketing of unhealthy food products to children; and regulating the supply of unhealthy products in public sector environments, particularly schools. GHAI is also a partner on Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL), an initiative of Vital Strategies that seeks to prevent millions of deaths from cardiovascular disease through regulations to ban industrially produced trans-fatty acides (TFA), sodium reduction strategies, and other policies. | *As part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Food Policy Program (FPP), GHAI supports civil society organizations to pass and implement key policies to develop healthier food environments, including: taxes on unhealthy food and beverage products; mandatory front-of-package nutrition warning labels; restrictions on marketing of unhealthy food products to children; and regulating the supply of unhealthy products in public sector environments, particularly schools. GHAI is also a partner on Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL), an initiative of Vital Strategies that seeks to prevent millions of deaths from cardiovascular disease through regulations to ban industrially produced trans-fatty acides (TFA), sodium reduction strategies, and other policies. | ||
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='''Cities / Roads'''= | ='''Cities / Roads'''= | ||
===[https://www.grsproadsafety.org/grsp-partners-with-bloomberg-advocacy-incubator/ GRSP partners with Bloomberg Advocacy incubator]=== | |||
*As a component within the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Programme, GRSP is partnering with the Bloomberg Advocacy Incubator to build the capacity of grantees of the Road Safety Grants Programme, as well as on-the-ground partner organizations such as Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies, to effectively advocate for the passage and implementation of evidence-based road safety policies. | |||
*The Bloomberg Advocacy Incubator is a partnership between the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</span> and Consumers International, and will draw on its teams’ vast experience in providing training and support to civil society organizations, and in the development and management of institutional and individual capacity building initiatives with grassroots associations, NGOs, media organizations and government agencies. | |||
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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 | ||
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*<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffff00;">Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK)</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]] | ||
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