World Conference on Tobacco or Health

The World Conference on Tobacco or Health is an international conference on tobacco control.

It is held once very three years, and attracts thousands of academics, health professionals, non-government organizations and public officials from more than 100 countries.

History

The WHO established its Tobacco Free Initiative in July of 1998 to focus attention on the global burden of disease and death caused by tobacco. The WHO states that tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world, and is currently responsible for the death of one in ten adults worldwide (about 5 million deaths each year). WHO predicts that itf current smoking patterns continue, about 10 million people will die each year worldwide by 2020. Half the people that smoke today -that is about 650 million people- will eventually be killed by tobacco.

On August 16, 2006, the WHO partnered with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who donated $125 million to the WHO's new Worldwide Stop Smoking Initiative, a component supporting WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first global health treaty ever implemented and one of the most widely-endorsed treaties in UN history. The FCTC has now been ratified by over 130 countries. The United States, under George W. Bush, has ratified but has refused to sign onto the treaty. The FCTC requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion; establish new packaging and labelling of tobacco products; establish clean indoor air controls to limit public exposure to secondhand smoke, and strengthen legislation to restrict tobacco smuggling. 1)

Affiliations

Sponsors

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Partners of the Summit. World Conference on Tobacco or Health. Retrieved May 24, 2022, from https://archive.ph/h8Y5E
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Supporters. (2015, March 19). Wayback Machine; World Conference on Tobacco or Health. https://archive.ph/7NeCG
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