Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a global treaty adopted by some 175 countries representing 88% of the world’s population. The treaty is a legally-binding instrument that mandates Parties to implement a comprehensive set of measures to reduce both the demand for and supply of tobacco products, as well as measures to prevent tobacco companies from interfering with tobacco control policies. The Government of Canada ratified the FCTC in 2004.

Proposals to Amend the Tobacco Reporting Regulations

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Canada’s Implementation of Article 5.3 of the FCTC: A Civil Society Shadow Report

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Regulating Interactions with the Tobacco Industry, March 2015

While governments attempt to improve the health of their citizens by approving interventions to reduce tobacco use, the tobacco industry uses every possible means to delay, dilute, or defeat their implementation and enforcement. Recognizing the “fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry’s interests and public health policy interests,” the global public health treaty,...

World Health Organization Director-General considers the tobacco endgame

“Full implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control would deal the greatest single preventive blow to all of these diseases.” – WHO Director General Margaret Chan

Preventing Tobacco Industry Interference: A Critical Tobacco Control Intervention

The tobacco industry manufacturers and promotes a product that is highly addictive, kills half of its long-term users, and is responsible for other social harms, including increased poverty and environmental degradation. Tobacco companies have a long and well-documented history of lying to governments and the public about the health risks of their products; funding...

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

An international instrument to deal with an international problem A Submission to the World Health Organization by the Smoking and Health Action Foundation Canada August 25th, 2000 “The cigarette industry is becoming increasingly international with consumers in different regions and countries moving towards a similar pattern of behaviour. British American Tobacco and its main international competitors are being increasingly successful at...

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

The Framework Convention, or FCTC, is an international treaty being negotiated through the World Health Organization to deal with the growing tobacco epidemic. Formal negotiations between interested countries began in the autumn of 2000, but a Working Group had already drafted large sections of possible text to serve as a basis for discussion between...

Comments on draft elements of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Introduction In any multilateral negotiation, there is always a trade-off between what is desirable and what is realistic. As NGOs that are not party to the negotiations, we are of course in no position to make the judgement call on how far Canada can go in pushing for what is desirable without putting the FCTC...