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Will New Bloomberg Funds Spread Vape Bans in Low-Income Countries?

Authored op-ed by Samrat Chowdhery, for Filter · 30 March 2023

Argues that a $420 million Bloomberg Philanthropies tobacco-control initiative risks funding blanket vaping bans in low- and middle-income countries regardless of local conditions, despite evidence that vaping is less harmful than smoking. Cites India, Mexico and the Philippines as examples where the piece says Bloomberg-funded advocacy pushed prohibitionist policy against the available evidence.