GFN.TV Interviews | SHIFTING FIREPOWER | Tobacco Control’s Self-Serving Reinvention

Institutions like WHO, regulators, and NGOs are hostile to harm reduction and have shifted their firepower from smoking to safer nicotine alternatives, says Clive Bates, international tobacco control policy expert. Shot on location at GFN 2025 in Warsaw, Bates describes public health’s “war on nicotine” as a misguided, ideological crusade that betrays its original mission of reducing smoking-related disease and death. Featuring: CLIVE BATES Tobacco Control Policy Expert, Counterfactual Consulting Former Dir. of Action on Smoking and Health (UK) @Clive_Bates clivebates.com