Even during a global pandemic, the tobacco and nicotine industry persist by pushing products that limit people’s ability to fight coronavirus and recover from the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Taking heavily on tobacco lobby, the apex global public health agency said that the industry has offered free branded masks and delivery to your door during quarantine and has lobbied for their products to be listed as ‘essential’.
Launching a new kit for school students aged 13-17 to alert them to the tobacco industry tactics used to hook them to addictive products, WHO said that smoking suffocates the lungs and other organs, starving them of the oxygen they need to develop and function properly. “Educating youth is