Patrick Basham
Revision as of 17:56, 10 February 2010 by Steven Harkins (talk | contribs) (New page: Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the Democracy Institute. ==Views== ===Tobacco=== Basham criticised the WHO's anti-tobacco efforts which a...)
Patrick Basham is the director of the London and Washington based think tank the Democracy Institute.
Views
Tobacco
Basham criticised the WHO's anti-tobacco efforts which are centred on the 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He described the framework as "The well-intentioned blind leading the blind," going on to say that:
- Smoking levels naturally drop off - as they have in Western countries - when populations become richer and better-educated,
Adding
- The cynical view is that the anti-tobacco lobby has itself now become an industry and we will never be able to do enough to stop smoking[1].
Notes
- ↑ Main Edition, Smoking death toll five million a year, The Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia), 12-December-2009
