Hello Peggy.  Good to hear from you again.  We've got an All Party Committee
on Tobacco that's working on provincial legislation in Saskatchewan.  We're
ever hopeful.  Good luck.
Lynn Greaves
Public Health Services
Regina Health District
2110 Hamilton St
Regina, SK S4P 2E3
306-766-7903  Fax 306-766-7798
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> From:         Peggy Edwards[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Health Promotion on the Internet
> Sent:         August 28, 2000 1:42 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      FW: tobacco dirty tricks and the WHO
>
> Dear friends
>
> I am on a secondment at the World Health Organization in Geneva and
> recently
> attended a presentation on the report described below. The final question
> to
> the presenter was "Do you think the tobacco industry was successful in
> undermining the WHO strategy on tobacco control?" He replied that we only
> need observe how the staff composition dedicated to tobacco dropped from
> 11
> to 2 to have the answer. On the other hand, the WHO Convention on Tobacco
> Control is a very hopeful development.
>
> So keep on fighting the good fight. The world is looking to Canada now for
> leadership on the smuggling debate and legal fight.
>
> Best to all from Geneva.
> --
> Peggy Edwards
> The Alder Group
> 26 Osborne Street
> Ottawa, Ontario
> K1S 4Z9
> (613) 730-0378; Fax (613) 730-0379
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> Visit our Website  http://www.aldergroup.com
>
>
> EXPERT COMMITTEE REPORT ON TOBACCO INDUSTRY DOCUMENTS AND THE WORLD HEALTH
> ORGANIZATION
>
> "The documents reveal that tobacco companies viewed WHO [the World Health
> Organization] as one of their leading enemies, and that they saw
> themselves
> in abattle against WHO," says the report entitled Tobacco Company
> Strategies
> to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization.
>
> In the report's foreword, its authors state that "the documents show
> further
> that the tobacco companies instigated global strategies to discredit and
> impedeWHO's ability to carry out its mission. [they] sought to divert
> attention from the public health issues, to reduce budgets for the
> scientific and policy activities carried out by WHO, to pit other UN
> agencies against WHO, to convince developing countries that WHO's tobacco
> control programme was carried out. at the expense of the developing world,
> to distort the results of important scientific studies on tobacco, and to
> discredit WHO as an institution."
>
> The report is available on Internet on the WHO home page
> http://www.who.int
>
>
>
> Peggy Edwards
>     Department of Health Promotion/NCD Prevention and Surveillance (HPS)
>     Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health cluster (NMH)
>     World Health Organization (WHO)
>     20 Avenue Appia
>     CH 1211 Geneva 27
>     Switzerland
>
>     tel: +41 22 791 4367
>     fax: +41 22 791 4186
>     e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>     http://www.who.int/ageing
>