The WHO and FDA Are Stuck in a Cigarette-Era Mindset

<![CDATA[As delegates from 183 countries gather in Geneva for the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the global health treaty marks its twentieth year. But while the FCTC was created to confront the devastation caused by combustible tobacco, it has drifted far from that mission. What began as a coordinated effort to reduce smoking has hardened into a bureaucracy that refuses to acknowledge modern science, adult consumer demand, or the well-established continuum of risk that exists across nicotine products.]]>