MANILA, Philippines — Local vaping groups have cri¬ticized the World Health Organization (WHO) for publishing “an atrociously erroneous” question and answer (Q&A) page on electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes, or vapes). Dator and Dulay scored the WHO’s “reckless and irresponsible” decision to publish the error-ridden Q&A. Faced with mounting criticism, the WHO revised the Q&A on Jan. 29, somewhat backpedaling on its claims against e-cigarettes. In his online blog “World Health Organization fails at science and fails at propaganda — the sad case of WHO’s anti-vaping Q&A,” Clive Bates debunked the claims against e-cigarettes in the original Q&A published by the WHO. Bates is a former chief of the UK charity Action on Smoking and Health and an advocate of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 16, 2020 17:26 UTC