GFN.TV Interviews | SHIFTING FIREPOWER | Tobacco Control’s Self-Serving Reinvention

29/08/2025 39 min
GFN.TV Interviews | SHIFTING FIREPOWER | Tobacco Control’s Self-Serving Reinvention

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Institutions like WHO, regulators, and NGOs are hostile to harm reduction and have shifted their firepower from smoking to safer nicotine alternatives, says Clive Bates, international tobacco control policy expert. Shot on location at GFN 2025 in Warsaw, Bates describes public health’s “war on nicotine” as a misguided, ideological crusade that betrays its original mission of reducing smoking-related disease and death.

Featuring:
CLIVE BATES
Tobacco Control Policy Expert, Counterfactual Consulting
Former Dir. of Action on Smoking and Health (UK)
@Clive_Bates
clivebates.com

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