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 publication of a special communication by Ronald Davis in this issue (see page 211) about a report on the effect of tobacco advertising bans (‘‘the Boddewyn report’’) that was in fact ghost-written by British American Tobacco caused one of us to experience a memory flashback to the mid-1980s. At that time, MW was working as a research officer in a state health department in Adelaide, South ...

Japanese anti-tobacco measures are reviewed and checked the relationship between the FCTC and its changes. Japan is making efforts to follow the FCTC, but it is insufficient and present anti-tobacco measures seem to have only a little impact on decreasing smoking rates. More effective measures should be developed for reducing smoking rates and for making smoke-free society.

T his year has begun well for tobacco control. One hundred and ninety two countries, all members of the World Health Organization, have solemnly pledged to rid the world of the death and disease trail caused by tobacco. Sixty countries have ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and thus given us an instrument with which we can systematically tackle all aspects of tobacco c...

Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003, 81 (8) “In this one bowl, there is rice from a thousand households.” The saying of Zen poet Ryokan (1758–1831) well describes the contribution of many parties towards the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: WHO, other UN agencies, Member States, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academia, the media, and even the tobacco industry. The ...