CAPHRA logo – Hosted by CAPHRA, TAV 8 followed the WHO releasing its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2021
Panellists on the latest Advocates Voice have passionately pleaded for fellow vapers and Tobacco Harm Reduction
champions to stick together and support each other in the fight for over one billion lives globally.
The call comes as anger deepens about the World Health Organization’s blatant and baseless lies on nicotine vaping – the
world’s most effective smoking cessation tool and proven to be 95% less harmful than combustible cigarettes.
The eighth episode of The Advocates Voice (TAV 8) followed the WHO releasing its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic,
2021. Ignoring all evidence, its latest attack on safer nicotine products was again driven and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
“Proven time and time again to be morally corrupt, the WHO continues to deny the world’s 1.1 billion smokers the right
to safer alternatives,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction
Advocates (CAPHRA).
“The WHO is tasked with improving public health, yet it continues to condemn millions of smokers to certain death each
and every year. We will never stop fighting as we are on the side of science. Time will also put us on the right side of
history,” she says.
Hosted by CAPHRA and moderated by Nancy Loucas, the TAV 8 panel included leading Asia Pacific THR consumer advocates:
Peter Paul Dator from the Philippines (Director of Vapers PH), Asa Saligupta (Director of ECST - ENDs Cigarette Smoke
Thailand) and Samsul Kamal Ariffin (President of MOVE - Malaysian Organization of Vape Entities).
The presentation and discussion can be viewed on CAPHRA’s YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/3fvNF4m. It includes founding Chairman of ATHRA (Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association) Dr Colin Mendelsohn talking
about the looming restrictions for Australian vapers.
TAV 8 also covered the launch of the world’s largest collection of successful personal vape stories. Boasting nearly
14,000 testimonials, www.righttovape.org is a joint venture between CAPHRA and the US-based Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA).
“We are adults with the right to make informed decisions for our health. We are the evidence that safer alternatives
work, and we are not going to be silenced. The new RightToVape site reinforces that the world’s vapers are increasingly
angry that evidence is being ignored and access to safer alternatives is being denied,” says Nancy Loucas.
Vape proponents are also encouraged to sign the Right2Switch petition at change.org/v4v-petition. It urges the WHO to respect consumer rights and to stop demonizing Tobacco Harm Reduction options ahead of the next
biennial meeting of the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in November.
For a free digital media repository on tobacco harm reduction in Asia Pacific - including media releases, images and
graphics - please visit https://apthrmedia.orgAbout CAPHRA
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Advocates (CAPHRA) is a regional alliance of consumer tobacco harm reduction
advocacy organizations. Its mission is to educate, advocate and represent the right of adult alternative nicotine
consumers to access and use of products that reduce harm from tobacco use.
TAV logo – TAV 8 can be viewed on CAPHRA’s YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/3fvNF4m.