In a COVID-free world, many people in tobacco control would have been at the Hague from 9-14 November 2020 for the Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), advocating for ever-stronger policies against the tobacco epidemic.

The COP was postponed to 2021, but the pandemic did not stop global civil society from (virtually) gathering in a series of webinars hosted by ASH to talk about the FCTC, where it is, and where it’s going.

Watch the COP Webinar Series here>

In order to further the conversation, ASH and our co-panelists wrote a series of editorials based on those webinars. Our hope is that these webinars and articles provide momentum for a very successful COP 9 in 2021.

Read the editorials in Tobacco Induced Diseases here:

• FCTC Article 2.1 and the next horizon in tobacco policy: Phasing out commercial sales

• WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the judicial system to fight tobacco

• Human rights and the WHO FCTC Conference of the Parties

• The impact of COVID-19 on the WHO FCTC, cessation, and tobacco policy

• It is time to become serious about closing the global resource gap for FCTC implementation