The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the world’s first global public health treaty. It is also the first treaty negotiated under the ...
A billion people will be killed by tobacco this century. It has been estimated that the tobacco industry makes approximately $6,000 for every death. T...
Below is a sample letter to send to your representative urging them to refuse political contributions from the tobacco industry. To look up your Sen...
Money is doled out to both sides of the aisle
The tobacco industry has always been a major player in congressional campaigns, but a new online map (...
New website tobaccomoney.com highlights campaign contributions and gifts from tobacco lobbyists to members of the Oklahoma State Legislator. Here is a...
A new report comes to some startling conclusions about the up-front economic costs of smoking. Nationwide, the average smoker spends 14% of income on...
In the decade since the adoption of the FCTC, we have seen significant progress in the area of tobacco control policies that have helped decrease smok...
At yesterday’s TransPacific Partnership stakeholder event – a bit of political theater set up by the United States Trade Representative to demonstrate...
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...
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...
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 being over. A recent study published in the Lancet suggests that the number of tobacco users remains very high...
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...
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 has filed formal papers to sue Australia in the World Trade Organization over its plain packaging of cigarettes. Australia is n...
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 are set to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement talks. They have agreed to accept any provisions that have been agreed befor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We applaud New York City Mayor and philanthropist Michael R. Bloomberg, for his unwavering commitment to public health by announcing his continued sup...