With the COVID-19 pandemic fading away, the World Health Organization (WHO) is returning to its core mission: making bogus, paternalistic attacks on tobacco users and producers.
To promote its World No Tobacco Day this year, WHO has been running a "grow food, not tobacco" campaign that mendaciously pins food insecurity on the global tobacco trade. "Tobacco is grown in over 124 countries, taking up 3.2 million hectares of fertile land that could be used to grow food," reads a recent WHO report, which it says "compounds the food security issues" faced by low- and middle-income countries.
