World Nanny Organization
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in The Nanny State & A Regulated Society
If International Organizations were forced to offer truth in advertising, the World Health Organization would require a change of names to the World Nanny Organization. Check out what they’ve been up to:
Governments must do more to protect workers in bars, restaurants and the entertainment sector from harmful smoke, and curb tobacco advertising and sponsorship, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
…”Most alarming of all, tobacco use is actually increasing in many developing countries. If Big Tobacco is in retreat in some parts of the world, it is on the march in others,” Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO director-general, told a meeting to review implementation of a landmark tobacco treaty five years after it came into force.
“As we all know, the tobacco industry is ruthless, devious, rich and powerful,” she said.
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, under review at the WHO, is the world’s first and only public health treaty and has been ratified by 168 countries including China.
It obliges governments to protect their populations from exposure to tobacco smoke and reduce demand through price and tax measures, regulating packaging and labeling of tobacco products and curbing tobacco advertising and sponsorship.
They go on to complain that there aren’t enough “national smoke-free laws,” and that “only 21 countries have tobacco tax rates greater than 75 percent of the retail price.”
More restrictions! More draconian taxes! WNO has spoken.
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