Details are being made available of the October meeting in Geneva of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.Read More
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A timely statement from the EU Commission indicates that it is opposed to tobacco-industry money being accepted and used to help reduce child- and forced-labor in the tobacco sector.Read More
A claim that a rule that offends against intellectual property rights should be repealed even if it proves to be an effective health tool might need to be examined.Read More
The secretariat of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and others, have been strongly criticised over their attitude to child-labor issues.Read More
An international anti-tobacco group is asking governments to develop plans by 2021 for phasing out the sale of tobacco products, a request that seems, in the light of what the tobacco industry is doing, to lack Read More
Threats and violence should have no place in determining what happens in a civilized society, no matter what is happening and to what. Read More
Given the emphasis placed on tobacco; it is perhaps surprising to learn that its consumption, or, more like, its consumption by smoking, accounts for abut 12 percent of all heart-disease deaths.Read More
Ten countries account for more than 60 percent of the world’s smokers, whose numbers have increased by more than seven percent during the past 25 years. Read More
