11/2/2022 0 Comments News ibox bg![]() ![]() Many specialist publications like Medical News Today, Medical Daily and the British Medical Journal also ran pieces. The story generated debate in countries like Australia and New Zealand that have been very hardline in their stance to the regulation of e-cigarettes. Gerry Stimson also gave interviews for ABC radio Australia and Channel News Asia, and local BBC radio stations across the UK. Jacque Le Houzec participated in a World No Tobacco Day panel on Radio France International’s health show Priorité Santé. NEWS IBOX BG TVDavid Sweanor gave two interviews to both Canada’s national radio and TV Broadcaster CBC. Other signatories such as John Britton (Today) and Robert West (Newsday) and Lynne Dawkins (7pm News) were also featured on the BBC. The piece was subsequently broadcast throughout the day on all BBC TV news programming. The BBC ran a feature piece including Gerry Stimson and the BBC´s interview ran on the outlet’s home page, was the lead health story throughout day, and also the lead news story on BBC´s Newshour programme. Papers such as the Financial Times and the Daily Mail however produced their own stories with the latter especially attracting a strong reaction on social media as well. The Press Association agency, based in the UK ran a story that was picked up by most UK newspapers. Once both these stories had run, other agencies adapted them to their local context. Between them the two pieces drove broad online coverage in Poland, France, Belgium, Hungary, Greece, Italy, UK, Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia and also reached Africa and Brazil. The Reuters story ran strongly throughout the US and across Europe and the Agence France-Presse story circulated widely in the Asia Pacific region from Australia though to Thailand,(Bangkok Post) Malaysia (New Straits Times), Korea, Japan (Japan Times) and India (Times of India) as well as parts of Europe. The letter was sent ahead of the upcoming WHO sponsored Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) meeting in Moscow this October. The letter from 53 scientists sent to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on May 26 urging the organisation to refrain from classifying e-cigarettes as regular tobacco products received wide media coverage across the world. ![]()
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