The Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA) is a global coalition of 100 public health organizations, listed below, who recognize the crucial intersection of tobacco control and environmental health.

STPA will actively participate in the UN plastics treaty negotiations from November 2022 through 2024 and remain active to ensure strong implementation of treaty measures that serve to reduce the tobacco epidemic and its toll on the environment.

 

Key Resources from STPA

• • Key Messages

  • INC-3 Brief on the Zero Draft

  • Background: Plastics Treaty Process and National Policies

  • Tobacco in Plastics Policies

  • UNEP Options Paper: The Impact on Tobacco Control | English | Spanish | French

  • Biodegradable Filters: a Health and Environmental Hazard for the Secretariat of INC-2, prepared by CNCT

  • Position Paper for the Secretariat of INC-2

  • Press Kit for INC-2

Sharable Content

Graphics and post captions in English, Spanish and French are available for download and use here.

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Statements

INC-2 Opening Statements from STPA Members

• Alliance pour Le Controle du Tabac en Afrique (ACTA – or African Tobacco Control Alliance, ATCA) made this statement.
• Action on Smoking and Health and Corporate Accountability joined this joint statement with the Center for Oceanic Awareness, Research, and Education and the Center for Biologican Diversity.

INC-2 Agenda Item 4, Option 2 Statement on June 2, 2023

• Leonce Sessou, Executive Secretary, the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA), read a statement on the floor on behalf of ATCA, Action on Smoking and Health, Corporate Accountability and other members of the Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance.

100 STPA Member Organizations

`pratyasha’ anti-drug’s club

ACITASVE (Asociación Civil Interdisciplinaria Tabaco o Salud Venezuela)

ACT Promoção de Saúde

ACT-Alliance contre le Tabac.

Action Council against Tobacco in India (ACT-India)

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH-US)

Aerztlicher Arbeitskreis Rauchen und Gesundheit e.V.

African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA)

Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC)

Alianza Antitabaco Ecuador

Alianza ENT

ASH Finland

ASH Scotland

Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control (ACTC)

Belgian Alliance for a Smoke Free Society

Belgian Foundation Against Cancer

BlueLink Civic Action Network

Bren School, UC Santa Barbara

CAT – Centro de Apoio ao Tabagista (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Center of Studies on Tobacco or Health of the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

CIET (Tob Epidemic Research Center of Uruguay)

Clalit health services

CNPT (Comité Nacional para la Prevención del Tabaquismo)

COLAT (Comisión Nacional Permanente de Lucha Antitabáquica)

Comité national contre le tabagisme (CNCT)

Consumer Information Network

Consumers Association of Penang

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA)

Corporate Accountability

Danish Cancer Society

Den of Hope Youth Group

Earth Day Network

Educar Consumidores

European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP)

Federal Ministry of Health

FIC Argentina

FIC Bolivia – Alianza por la Salud

Fiji Cancer Society

Friends of the Earth Canada

Fundacion Annas

Fundación Bolivia Saludable – Alianza por la Salud

Fundación OneSea

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC)

GoClean Nederland B.V.

Green Crescent Turkey

Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health

Health Funds for a Smokefree Netherlands

HealthJustice Philippines

Healthy Latin America Coalition (CLAS)

Institute of Leadership and Development (INSLA)

Institute of Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia

Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS), Inc.

International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation

International Youth Health Organization

Israel Medical Association for Smoking Cessation and Prevention

Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians

Japan Society for Tobacco Control

KADC

Kyiv City Public Health Center

Lentera Anak

Malaysian Women’s Action for Tobacco Control and Health (MyWATCH)

Menzies School of Health Research

Mps Gabon

NCD Child

Nofumadores.org

Norwegian Cancer Society

NTAKK

Orendain Associates

Pan African Vision for the Environment (PAVE)

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada

Plastic Pollution Coalition

PROESA-U.Icesi

PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress)

PROI

Recreation Therapy New Zealand

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RENATA (Red Nacional Antitabaco)

RIPO – Red Internacional Promotores de ODS

Salud Justa Mexico

Smoke Free Israel

Smoke Free Life Coalition

Smokefree partnership

Société Francophone de Tabacologie

Society For Public Health Professionals of Nigeria

Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA)

Stop2drop

Súmate

Swiss Association for Tobacco Control

The Union (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease)

The World is Home asbl

Tobacco Control Alliance in Georgia

Tobacco Free Association of Zambia

Tobacco Free Portfolios

TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland

TobaccoTactics team at the University of Bath.

Unfairtobacco

VCU Health

Vision for Alternative Development

Vital Strategies

 

Last Updated: May 30, 2023