What is ISDS and What Does it Mean for Tobacco Control
ISDS stands for Investor State Dispute Settlement. I know, spelling it out doesn’t help comprehension much. It is a term of art for trade law policy w...
Two Silver Linings to Graphic Warnings Decision
As anyone who follows tobacco-related news now knows, last Friday an appeals court upheld a lower court ruling striking down the FDA’s proposed graph...
States Urge USTR To Seek Tobacco Carve Out from TPP
Two state governments have called on the USTR to carve tobacco out of the TransPacific Partnership Agreement over well-grounded concerns that their ow...
The Global Tobacco Epidemic is Far from Over
The global tobacco epidemic is far from being over. A recent study published in the Lancet suggests that the number of tobacco users remains very high...
ASH at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health
For someone who had to get involved in tobacco control as relief from seeing patient after patient suffering and dying as a result of their use of tob...
NCD Action Plan
WHO has posted a discussion paper on the development of its NCD Action Plan 2013-20 http://who.int/nmh/events/2012/ncd_action_plan/en/index.html The...
The Dominican Republic is Suing Australia for Plain Packaging of Cigarettes
The Dominican Republic has filed formal papers to sue Australia in the World Trade Organization over its plain packaging of cigarettes. Australia is n...
United States Does Not Table its Tobacco Exception at the TransPacific Partnership Negotiations
The United States did not table its tobacco exception at the latest round of TransPacific Partnership negotiations. The issue apparently did not come ...
Canada and Mexico Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Talks
Canada and Mexico are set to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement talks. They have agreed to accept any provisions that have been agreed befor...
Tobacco Industry Reports on Revenues
Clearly, even though it kills over 5 million people per year, tobacco remains a very lucrative business. Quoting Warren Buffet: “I’ll tell you why ...
Ratification from Czech Republic
On June 1st 2012 the Czech Republic joined the tobacco treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. 177 out of 195 eligible Parties have beco...
WHA Adoption of Targets
The world must stay make clear commitments to reduce the tobacco caused epidemic. As Dr Chan, Director General of the WHO says, “what gets measured ge...
PAFNCD 2012
On May 8-9 I attended in Brasilia, Brazil, the first working meeting of the Pan American Forum for Action on Noncommunicable Diseases (PAFNCD), an ini...
Costing Tools
Tobacco use has been determined to be very costly to society as you can see in this Harvard- World Economic Forum publication. According to a recent A...
Bloomberg’s Support on Tobacco Control
We applaud New York City Mayor and philanthropist Michael R. Bloomberg, for his unwavering commitment to public health by announcing his continued sup...