After ratifying the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control in 2004, Bangladesh enacted anti-tobacco laws, policies, and administrative measures. Evidence suggests that progress so far has not been significant, will most likely fail to meet its target become tobacco-free by 2040. This study undertakes a national-level political economy analysis explore dynamics affect processes of required tob...

The Framework Convention Alliance welcomes the Secretariat’s report on financial resources and mechanisms of assistance, and urges the COP to adopt a decision: Reaffirming the importance of mechanisms of assistance and financial resources for implementation of the Convention; Calling on Parties to provide extra-budgetary contributions for the implementation assistance activities approved in the...

The publication of a special communication by Ronald Davis in this issue (see page 211) about a report on the effect of tobacco advertising bans (‘‘the Boddewyn report’’) that was in fact ghost-written by British American Tobacco caused one of us to experience a memory flashback to the mid-1980s. At that time, MW was working as a research officer in a state health department in Adelaide, South ...

South Korea's state health insurer, the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), is in the process of a compensation suit against tobacco industry. The tobacco companies have habitually endeavored to ensure favorable outcomes in litigation by misusing scientific evidence or recruiting scientists to support its interests. This study analyzed strategies that tobacco companies have used during th...

BACKGROUND Although China ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [FCTC] in 2005, the partial ban on tobacco advertising does not cover the internet. Weibo is one of the most important social media channels in China, using a format similar to its global counterpart, Twitter. The Weibo homepage is a platform to present products, brands and corporate culture. There is great poten...

OBJECTIVE To describe cigarette labeling policies in Latin America and the Caribbean as of August 2010. MATERIAL AND METHODS Review of tobacco control legislation of all 33 countries of the region; analysis of British American Tobacco (BAT)'s corporate social reports; analysis of information from cigarette packages collected in 27 countries. RESULTS In 2002, Brazil became the first country ...

This article aims to provide a review of music sponsorship to market cigarettes in sub-Saharan Africa. Using analysis of previously secret corporate documents from British American Tobacco (BAT) and focusing on two separate case studies of sponsorship in Africa, Nigeria and South Africa, the paper illustrates how tobacco companies have sought to undermine health legislation from 1990 to 2001. B...

member states of the 56th World Health Assembly unanimously adopted the first global health treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). A groundbreaking treaty which aims to curb tobacco use worldwide, the FCTC holds the potential to help reverse the global tobacco epidemic, particularly in low income countries. With tobacco projected to claim a billion lives this century, 1 the...

A year after the World Health Assembly adopted the framework convention on tobacco control, the goal of having 40 countries ratify the treaty by 29 June is proving elusive. While 192 member nations of the World Health Organization backed the convention last year, only 113 countries have taken the first step towards implementing it by signing it. Of these only 13 have taken the next step and rat...

introduction: the framework convention tobacco control (fctc) is designed by world health organization (who), in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic, in 2003. all treaty signatories including iran adopted to perform it during 3 years. this study was performed to design a model for evaluation of the implementation of this treaty in iran. methods: this study was a qualitative st...