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Epidemic3
  • Public health workers must also use all means available to them in order to achieve their objective of eradicating the tobacco epidemic. (who.int)
  • During this Consultation, more than 20 Member States expressed an urgent need to understand the scope and magnitude of litigation and public inquires as tools for tobacco control in order to determine the best ways to combine science and law in curbing the tobacco epidemic. (who.int)
  • Molecular HIV surveillance is a promising public health strategy for curbing the HIV epidemic. (cdc.gov)
Related-diseases1
  • Thus, while tobacco related-diseases differ from the communicable diseases that have traditionally been the concern of the WHO, the effects of globalization have made tobacco increasingly relevant for such intergovernmental authorities. (wikipedia.org)
World's3
  • 2 Vietnam is ranked among the world's top 15 consumers of tobacco, with more than 15 million smokers, and the Vietnamese people spent about VND 22 trillion (or US$985 million) a year on tobacco, which accounted for about 10% of total household expenditures. (bmj.com)
  • The country has one of the world's worst tobacco problems: Nearly two-thirds of Indonesian men and 24 percent of boys between 13 and 15 smoke. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • We expose the tobacco industry's deceitful practices and chronicle the work of advocates in the United States and around the globe who are battling the world's leading cause of preventable death. (tobaccofreekids.org)
Globally1
  • As the leading cause of preventable death globally, tobacco has seen an upsurge in both its consumption and its fatality rate worldwide with the increasing interconnectedness of the global economy. (wikipedia.org)
Framework Convent2
20162
  • 3 Data from the Vietnam Tobacco Control Fund showed that the Vietnamese people consumed about 101 billion cigarettes in 2016. (bmj.com)
  • In April 2009, the SCT for tobacco increased to 65% of the wholesale price and increased again to 70% on 1 January 2016 and to 75% on 1 January 2019. (bmj.com)
Industry's1
FCTC3
  • The FCTC, one of the most quickly ratified treaties in United Nations history, is a supranational agreement that seeks "to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke" by enacting a set of universal standards stating the dangers of tobacco and limiting its use in all forms worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
  • FCTC standards are, however, minimum requirements, and signatories are encouraged to be even more stringent in regulating tobacco than the treaty requires them to be. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Mamudu and Studlar, since the adoption of the FCTC in 2003, "shared sovereignty through multilevel governance has become the norm in the tobacco control policy area for EU members, including having one international organization negotiate within the context of another. (wikipedia.org)
Occur in developin1
  • Disturbingly, by the 2020s, 70 percent of tobacco-related deaths will occur in developing countries. (who.int)
19942
  • The idea for a multilateral treaty regarding tobacco control gained traction in 1994 at the Ninth World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Paris, France, when Roemer and Taylor presented their strategy for international legal action. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United States, deceptive statements about tobacco - including industry executives' 1994 congressional testimony that they did not believe nicotine is addictive - helped provide the political momentum needed to finally impose tobacco restrictions. (tobaccofreekids.org)
Keep cigarettes2
Reduce tobacco2
  • Under the auspices of tobacco activist and UCLA professor Ruth Roemer, the WHO urged individual countries throughout the 1980s and 1990s to adopt national laws that have been shown to reduce tobacco use. (wikipedia.org)
  • We blog news and information about the global movement to reduce tobacco use and its devastating toll. (tobaccofreekids.org)
Consumption5
  • Methodology and data This paper used the gap method to estimate the gap between cigarette domestically tax-paid sales and domestic consumption. (bmj.com)
  • Given that smoking is extremely harmful to public health, the government of Vietnam has made commitments and implemented measures to control tobacco production and consumption since 2000. (bmj.com)
  • Vietnam has an excise tax, namely, the Special Consumption Tax (SCT), on cigarettes for many years. (bmj.com)
  • The WHO has long been active in preventing the myriad health issues that result from tobacco consumption. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Eastern Mediterranean Region in particular faces a great challenge due to high rates of tobacco consumption. (who.int)
Effectively2
  • The government should increase taxes on cigarettes to raise domestic cigarette prices and take strong policy measures to create a more transparent social environment, therefore effectively reducing the prevalence of illicit cigarettes in Vietnam. (bmj.com)
  • In compliance with Resolution 48.11, the WHO employed Roemer and Taylor to draft a background paper on the various mechanisms available to the WHO in effectively controlling tobacco use worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
Nicotine1
  • Thousands of international, scientific studies have proved the addictive power of nicotine, the essential element in tobacco products that gets people hooked and keeps them using a product that kills them. (tobaccofreekids.org)
Kills1
  • Tobacco kills, don't be duped. (who.int)
Restrictions1
  • The Estonian government is planning on Thursday to approve a draft legislation of Health and Labor Minister Jevgeni Ossinovski which would substantially increase sales restrictions of tobacco products, including restricting the display of tobacco products and their brands at points of sale, reports LETA/BNS. (cleartheair.org.hk)
Exposure1
  • Its strength will be recognised only in the combined efforts of all parties, working towards a common goal: the improvement of the health of Cook Islands people by reducing harm from tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke. (who.int)
Regulations6
  • The substantive claim arose from the introduction of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 and the Tobacco Plain Packaging Regulations 2011, which prohibited the use of brands, trademarks and logos on tobacco packaging. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Wanyonyi said even though one local company has started printing the graphic warnings as demanded by the Tobacco Control Regulations, 2014, the industry is already in court challenging those regulations. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The regulations seek to operationalise the 2007 Tobacco Control Act. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The fact that the industry is well resourced has been a challenge in the implementation of the new law," he said, adding that it has taken the country nine years to come up with new regulations. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Tobacco industry in the country is vehemently opposed to new regulations regulating the manufacture, sale and advertising of tobacco products. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The regulations demand that pictures of dead babies, throat cancer and rotten teeth should appear on cigarette packets next month. (cleartheair.org.hk)
Health13
  • Data were from the tax-paid sales by the Vietnam Steering Committee on Smoking and Health (VINACOSH), the Vietnam Tobacco Association, the General Tax Department, as well as two rounds of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey in 2010 and 2015. (bmj.com)
  • The Government Resolution No. 12/2000/NQ-CP on 'National Tobacco Control Policy 2000-2010' has been implemented by a committee led by the Ministry of Health (MOH) and draws from most ministries and community organisations. (bmj.com)
  • That tobacco can be manipulated to improve health - and even cure cancer. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • This order further implements the "corrective statements" the tobacco companies were first ordered to make in 2006, when U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued a landmark judgment that the companies had violated civil racketeering laws and lied to the American public for decades about the health effects of smoking and their marketing to kids. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • Over the years, evidence has proved that tobacco companies have undertaken, and are still undertaking, a great number of activities to impede health action. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) has recognized the need for public health workers to diversify their tobacco control efforts into fields other than science. (who.int)
  • Therefore, it is crucial that public health workers seize this opportunity to step beyond the realm of science and medical statistics and embrace other techniques and tools for tobacco control. (who.int)
  • Tobacco: Al the Facts, Legislation, and How it Affects Your Health. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The World Health Organisation says last year, Kenyans smoked eight million cigarette sticks, compared to 6.5 million in 2013. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The changes to the Tobacco Act would expand the regulation sphere of the law to prevent and reduce the spread of addiction and health damage as a result of tobacco and tobacco products, it is written on Thursday's agenda of the government. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are currently 4.9 million deaths a year attributable to tobacco, a figure expected to rise to about 10 million a year by the early 2020s. (who.int)
  • There is a growing list of diseases and adverse health effects that are associated with cigarette smoking. (who.int)
  • The following table lists down some of the established and suspected health effects of smoking tobacco. (who.int)
Litigation2
  • There is ongoing litigation whether the tobacco companies must post corrective statements at retail point-of-sale displays. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • This monograph has been developed by TFI in order to provide both countries and individuals at national, regional and global levels with information, support and technical assistance on litigation and public inquiries as tools for tobacco control. (who.int)
Fought2
  • In fact, tobacco companies have fought for more than 11 years to weaken and delay the corrective statements, underscoring how little they have changed. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • It has also been proven beyond doubt that these companies have hidden many facts about the hazards of smoking, that they have fought against the imposition of tobacco control laws and that they have attempted to influence decision-makers everywhere in order to oppose tobacco control measures. (who.int)
Committee1
  • An Intersectoral Tobacco Committee, made up of government and non-government agencies, will help coordinate activities under this Action Plan. (who.int)
Public2
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tobacco companies must soon publish statements on their websites and cigarette package onserts that tell the American public the truth about their deadly and addictive products, under a court order issued May 1 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia . (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • Today's order is another important step in holding the tobacco companies accountable for decades of deception and wrongdoing and ensuring the public knows the facts about the deadly consequences of smoking and secondhand smoke. (tobaccofreekids.org)
Products4
Smokers1
  • Smokers are exposed to over 4000 toxic substances in cigarette smoke. (who.int)
Initiative1
  • Report prepared by D. Douglas Blanke, Director of the Tobacco Law Project, William Mitchell College of Law, for the Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO. (who.int)
Result2
  • Key results The results indicated that Vietnam had a negative volume of illicit trade, either a result of under-reporting of tobacco use or due to net smuggling of tax-paid cigarettes out of the country. (bmj.com)
  • Furthermore, the trend showed an increased negative volume over time, which indicated that increases in tobacco taxes in the interleading years did not result in an increase in illicit trade in tobaccos in Vietnam. (bmj.com)
Decades1
  • A 2009 law that declares tobacco is an addictive substance has spawned a court challenge in which far-fetched claims most of us haven't heard in decades are being aired . (tobaccofreekids.org)
Government2
Year3
  • The tobacco companies must attach the corrective statements as "onserts" on cigarette packs for a total of 12 weeks over two years (two weeks at a time, three times a year, for two years). (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • Diseases related to tobacco use kill more than four million people every year. (who.int)
  • Ochieng said even though they have written to EACC concerning bribery allegations by industry to MPS with the view of influencing some of the policies, EACC is yet to respond to them, one year later. (cleartheair.org.hk)
Single1
  • The sale of single stick cigarettes is also widespread, close to schools, although it is illegal, she said. (cleartheair.org.hk)
Background1
  • Background This paper examined how a higher tax on tobacco would affect illicit trade in Vietnam. (bmj.com)
Years1
  • Petrol station owners too had said they would bring in a partial ban on the display of packets of cigarettes within two years. (cleartheair.org.hk)
Companies6
  • The companies must publish the statements on their websites by June 18, 2018, and on cigarette pack onserts by November 21, 2018. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • Starting last November, the tobacco companies have also disseminated the corrective statement through advertisements in newspapers and during primetime on the major television networks. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • Make no mistake: The tobacco companies are not making these statements voluntarily or because of a legal settlement. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • The tobacco companies must disseminate the corrective statements though newspaper and TV advertising, their websites and cigarette onserts. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • The tobacco companies must place the corrective statements on their websites beginning on June 18, 2018, and they will run indefinitely. (tobaccofreekids.org)
  • Tobacco companies have been using all possible tools to market their deadly product in full knowledge of its harmful nature. (who.int)
Brands1
  • and four former R.J. Reynolds/Lorillard cigarette brands sold in 2015 to ITG Brands (Winston, Salem, Kool and Maverick). (tobaccofreekids.org)
Measures1
Worldwide1
  • Worldwide tobacco control set a precedent for EU Commission participation and negotiation in multilateral treaties, and further defined the powers and capabilities of the EU as a supranational entity. (wikipedia.org)
Smoking1
Increase1
  • Conclusions Vietnam's low prices on domestic cigarettes created favourable conditions for cigarette smugglers and provided easy access to illicit cigarettes for the Vietnamese people, but the absence of a relationship between tax changes and smuggling suggested that potential increases in the excise tax should not be discouraged by the threat of an increase in illicit trade. (bmj.com)
Powerful1
  • Kenya Tobacco Control Alliance member Achieng Otieno said tobacco industries are so powerful as they have in the recent past compromised a section of MPS. (cleartheair.org.hk)
Strong1
  • These terrifying figures are the outcome of direct and indirect advertising campaigns that promote tobacco, and are a strong warning. (who.int)
Evidence1
Case1
  • Tobacco company defendants in the case include Altria, its Philip Morris USA subsidiary and R.J. Reynolds. (tobaccofreekids.org)
Forms1
  • The Cook Islands Tobacco Control Action Plan forms one plank of a comprehensive tobacco control programme being developed and implemented in the Cook Islands. (who.int)