ENSP Conference on Tobacco Control

Socio-economic inequalities in smoking in the European Union. Applying an equity lens to tobacco control policies Socio-economic inequalities in smoking in the European Union. Applying an equity lens to tobacco control policies

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Tobacco industry strategies to undermine the 8th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that Philip Morris and British American Tobacco Company attempted to initiate a wide ranging campaign to undermine the success of the 8th World Conference on Tobacco or Health held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1992. DATA SOURCES Publicly available tobacco industry documents housed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Guilford, UK; on-line document websites; and telephone...

Research for effective global tobacco control in the 21st century: report of a working group convened during the 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.

Introduction The 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health was held in Beijing at a critical juncture for the world’s tobacco control movement. Facing a declining market in many Western, developed countries and formidable law suits in the United States, the major tobacco companies of the developed nations have aggressively turned to developing countries as their future markets. This global con...

A missing voice: the human rights of children to a tobacco-free environment

In this commentary, we flag the importance of taking a child-rights approach in the context of tobacco control, which is thus far unprecedented. This text was written in response to the Seventh Conference of States Parties of WHOs Framework Convention on Tobacco Control held in India from 7 to 12 November 2016.While the links between tobacco control and human rights were emphasised at this conf...

The WHO International Conference on Global Tobacco Control Law: Towards a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control