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    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is an international treaty adopted in 2003 that aims to protect people from the harms of tobacco. It seeks to address issues like increasing global tobacco consumption, the rise of smoking among children and adolescents, and the impact of tobacco advertising. The treaty establishes rules around tobacco production, sale, distribution, advertising, and taxation. It was created in response to tobacco issues that individual countries could not address alone, like smuggling and cross-border advertising. The tobacco industry opposed the FCTC due to concerns about its potential economic impact.

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    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is an international treaty adopted in 2003 that aims to protect people from the harms of tobacco. It seeks to address issues like increasing global tobacco consumption, the rise of smoking among children and adolescents, and the impact of tobacco advertising. The treaty establishes rules around tobacco production, sale, distribution, advertising, and taxation. It was created in response to tobacco issues that individual countries could not address alone, like smuggling and cross-border advertising. The tobacco industry opposed the FCTC due to concerns about its potential economic impact.

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    LESSON 2:

    WHO Framework on
    Tobacco Control

    HEALTH 10
    THE WORLD HEALTH
    ORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK
    CONVENTION ON TOBACCO
    CONTROL (WHO FCTC)
    THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK CONVENTION
    ON TOBACCO CONTROL (WHO FCTC)

    On May 21, 2003, the 56th World Health Assembly adopted the WHO FCTC Treaty, which
    came into force on February 27, 2005. It was signed by 168 countries. The FCTC is a
    supernational agreement that seeks to protect the present and future generations from the
    devastating health, social, environmental, and economic consequences of tobacco
    consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke. Rules that govern the production, sale,
    distribution, advertisement, and taxation of tobacco are included in the provision's of the
    treaty.
    THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK CONVENTION
    ON TOBACCO CONTROL (WHO FCTC)

    Being the leading cause of preventable death, tobacco has seen an upsurge in its consumption
    and fatality rate with the increasing interconnectedness of the global economy. Treaty
    advocates initiated and called-upon tobacco-related issues that could not be resolved by the
    actions of individual countries such as the smuggling of tobacco and the leakage of tobacco
    advertisements from countries which lacked strict regulation and restrictions on where and to
    whom tobacco companies could market their products.
    The Preamble of the FCTC focused on the following
    issues:
    • The dramatic increase in worldwide tobacco consumption
    • The escalation in smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption
    by children and adolescents
    • The impact of all forms of advertising, promotion, and sponsorship
    aimed at encouraging tobacco use
    THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION FRAMEWORK CONVENTION
    ON TOBACCO CONTROL (WHO FCTC)

    Before the treaty was released, tobacco industry agents and delegates engaged upon
    a concerted effort to check the efforts of the FCTC planners and composers aside
    from the participating policy- makers from individual WHO member states. Since
    they were unable to argue against the scientific evidence about tobacco's harmful
    health effects, the tobacco industry apprehended the FCTC's potential for economic
    harm. The industry made several attempts to discredit the FCTC.
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