{"id":31093,"date":"2025-11-19T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/?p=31093"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:53:18","slug":"cop-day-3-bulletin-gatc-lies-about-harm-reduction-and-quitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/cop-day-3-bulletin-gatc-lies-about-harm-reduction-and-quitting\/","title":{"rendered":"COP Day 3 bulletin: GATC lies about harm reduction and quitting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC) – which coordinates anti-nicotine NGOs at the WHO\u2019s Conference of the Parties on tobacco control – has written to all COP delegates falsely claiming that \u201cthe evidence on the use of e-cigarettes as cessation aid is inconclusive\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GATC, which yesterday slammed New Zealand – the country with the second lowest smoking rates in the developed world – for collusion with the tobacco industry, claims that existing research shows \u201cthat e-cigarettes are only effective for cessation in managed, clinical settings, and population studies conducted in uncontrolled settings do not indicate that these products assist smokers in quitting\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the evidence says<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Cochrane organisation, which is independent of the tobacco industry (or any other industry for that matter) has reviewed the totality of the evidence<\/a> on vaping and quit rates for a number of years now, and their findings directly contradict GATC\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the organisation’s 2025 review, there is \u201chigh-certainty evidence that nicotine EC [electronic cigarettes] increase quit rates compared to NRT [nicotine replacement therapies]\u201d. GATC\u2019s bulletin notes that smokers can \u201csurely benefit from long-term cessation support with Nicotine Replacement Therapy\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement also contradicts the views of the Global Alliance’s own board members, including Cancer Research UK, whose own website<\/a> talks of \u201cgrowing evidence from around the world\u201d that vaping helps people quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBloomberg babies\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The GATC article is written by representatives of Vital Strategies and the Center for Tobacco Free Kids. Both organisations were dubbed \u201cBloomberg babies\u201d<\/a> by David Zaruk, of The Firebreak, given their reliance on Michael Bloomberg for their financing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg has an outsized influence on the goings on at COP: of the 29 non governmental organisation permitted to attend, more than half are reliant on his organisations for funding.<\/p>\n

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