sCOPe Launches Online Library
sCOPe, a collaboration of tobacco harm reduction groups, launches an extensive tobacco harm reduction online library
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by Dave Cross
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sCOPe recently broadcast around the clock during COP9 - the 9th Conference of Parties for the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
“sCOPe’s five-day global livestream was a huge success, countering and shining much-needed sunlight on COP9. It shows just what can be achieved when international consumer organizations come together in their tireless work to humanize and promote the life-changing tobacco harm reduction movement,” says Alex Clark, CEO of CASAA.
Hours of sCOPe’s presentations by international THR experts and panel discussions featuring consumer advocates have now been uploaded into one online library, available at https://bit.ly/319zzkx
Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of CAPHRA, says if more smokers’ lives are to be saved then the WHO must not be allowed to continue to demonize safer nicotine alternatives like vaping. Instead, it must be mandated to follow the scientific evidence.
“It’s critical”, she says, “over the next two years that the world’s THR organisations work more closely and effectively together.”
“sCOPe provides consumers, the public and the media with an invaluable resource and platform going forward. Our focus now shifts to COP10 in 2023 where risk reduced products will be a key discussion topic for delegates. With over one billion smokers’ lives at stake, consumers need one clear voice and sCOPe now provides that,” says Nancy Loucas.
Chilean consumer advocate Ignacio Leiva Benitez, General Secretary of ARDT Iberoamerica, says Latin America is delighted to be part of sCOPe and now working more closely with allies from all around the world.
“sCOPe is all about showing the world’s decisionmakers what has worked for us individuals and changed our lives for the better. I started vaping 12 years ago, after smoking two packets of cigarettes a day. For years I tried different ways to quit but was unsuccessful until I discovered nicotine vaping. sCOPe will enable us to fight more successfully on behalf of adult smokers, in every country, to gain better access to safer alternatives,” says Ignacio Leiva Benitez.
To access sCOPe’s online library visit, https://bit.ly/319zzkx
Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
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