Anti-smoking alliance breaks with doctors who are too confrontational
Dutch NewsThe Dutch anti tobacco lobby Alliantie Nederland Rookvrij has ended its relationship with two lung specialists because, it says, they are too confrontational in their approach, Trouw reported on Tuesday. Trouw says the cracks in the relationship with Wanda de Kanter and Pauline Dekker first emerged last year when they lobbied against the appointment of former MP Jolande Sap as chairwoman of a working party. The Dutch cancer charity KWF Kankerbestrijding wanted the article to be removed, arguing it was damaging to the alliance’s lobbying efforts. Health warning: the government’s smoking policy kills Now the alliance has removed the doctors’ own lobby group Stichting Rookpreventie Jeugd from the organisation’s list of partners, saying in a letter to other partners that the aim is ‘to work from a positive perspective: to be a unifying factor, to stimulate, motivate and take advantage of opportunities.’
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