A filter ban may be a step closer after a couple of decisions at #COP11FCTC.
Although not mentioned in the decisions, reports provided to the COP proposed a filter ban as a forward-looking measure.
It's time. There's #nomorebutts.
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Restore harm reduction to the FCTC.
Tax by risk. Regulate by evidence. Include all voices.
Health for all means harm reduction for all — including nicotine. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
Today at #COP11FCTC TCRG members spoke at an engaging side event on lessons learned from WHO FCTC policy implementation.
They joined pannelists from Mexico, Sri Lanka and Ghana who discussed their experiences of and challenges with FCTC policy implementation in their countries.
The right to health includes the right to *reduce risk*.
Denying safer nicotine products denies that right to millions across Asia.
This is not just a policy issue, it IS a human rights issue. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
Consumers silenced. Science distorted. Lives lost. This is what prohibition of safer nicotine products looks like in Asia Pacific. Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
The UN Right to Health promises the highest attainable standard. Prohibition denies it. Let’s demand proportionate regulation at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
Many governments in Asia profit from cigarette sales , while banning safer alternatives. Regulators and revenue collectors shouldn’t be the same people.
That’s not tobacco control, it’s policy hypocrisy. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
The WHO embraces harm reduction for everything but tobacco. This hypocrisy is killing Asia Pacific. Demand change at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
Asia Pacific leads the world in tobacco deaths. Denying harm reduction isn’t “protection”—it’s policy failure. Hear the truth at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
Countries like Japan & New Zealand prove harm reduction works. Yet much of Asia Pacific is trapped in bans. Let’s shift the narrative at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
If governments in Asia legalise and regulate lower-risk nicotine products, scale cessation, and price/market combustibles out of reach, preventing hundreds of thousands to ~two million deaths every year is a realistic, evidence-consistent target. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
The delegations at #COP11FCTC will be discussing Tobacco Harm Reduction. There will be pressure on these delegations to accept new definitions and interpretations of articles 1d, 5.2b, and 5.3 that will directly impact consumers of safer nicotine products. A must see for all: bit.ly/4oYXXei
Prohibition doesn’t eliminate demand — it hands it to criminals.
From Australia to India, vape bans are fuelling illicit trade and gang violence.
Regulation works. Prohibition fails. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
Restore harm reduction to the FCTC.
Tax by risk. Regulate by evidence. Include all voices.
Health for all means harm reduction for all — including nicotine. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
Consumers belong at the policy table.
Excluding them breeds mistrust — and costs lives. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
The UN Right to Health promises the highest attainable standard. Prohibition denies it. Let’s demand proportionate regulation at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
The right to health includes the right to *reduce risk*.
Denying safer nicotine products denies that right to millions across Asia.
This is not just a policy issue, it IS a human rights issue. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
Prohibition doesn’t eliminate demand — it hands it to criminals.
From Australia to India, vape bans are fuelling illicit trade and gang violence.
Regulation works. Prohibition fails. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
Asia Pacific leads the world in tobacco deaths. Denying harm reduction isn’t “protection”—it’s policy failure. Hear the truth at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025 #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
Many governments in Asia profit from cigarette sales , while banning safer alternatives. Regulators and revenue collectors shouldn’t be the same people.
That’s not tobacco control, it’s policy hypocrisy. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
Article 1(d) of the FCTC defines *harm reduction* as part of tobacco control.
Yet WHO now tries to label it a “tobacco industry construct” to be demonised
When public-health institutions silence science and consumers, trust dies too. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
The delegations at #COP11FCTC will be discussing Tobacco Harm Reduction. There will be pressure on these delegations to accept new definitions and interpretations of articles 1d, 5.2b, and 5.3 that will directly impact consumers of safer nicotine products. Premiering at 15:00MNL bit.ly/4oYXXei
High MPOWER scores ≠ lower smoking rates.
Evidence shows pragmatic harm-reduction policies — not prohibition — drive real progress. Japan, New Zealand, and the Philippines prove it. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
The delegations at #COP11FCTC will be discussing Tobacco Harm Reduction. There will be pressure to accept new definitions & interpretations of articles 1d, 5.2b, & 5.3 that are paradoxical at best. Premiering at 15:00MNL bit.ly/4oYXXei
WHO awards countries for banning safer products, while state-owned tobacco profits soar. Consumers pay the price. Call out this hypocrisy at Asia Day – The Good Cop 2.0, Geneva, 19 Nov 2025. #COP11FCTC, #GoodCOP2, #AsiaPacific, #THRworks bit.ly/4nLbsyd
Where non-combustibles were allowed and regulated, smoking declined faster—e.g., Japan’s post-2015 surge in heated-tobacco use coincided with accelerated, unprecedented cigarette sales declines; multiple studies document this association. #COP11FCTC #THRworks #HealthForAll
