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NGOs Call on Governments to Ratify Global Tobacco Treaty on World No Tobacco Day 

Today, an international coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are joining health advocates, students and the city of Quito to celebrate World No Tobacco Day in Ecuador's capital. The coalition began a three-week tour of Latin America last week to urge the governments of Brazil, Ecuador and Costa Rica to ratify the global tobacco treaty. Corporate Accountability International is working closely with the Zero Tobacco Network (Brazil), Tribuna Ecuatoriana de Consumidores y Usarios (Ecuador), ALERTA (Costa Rica) and other members of the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT) to coordinate the Latin America Treaty Ratification Campaign.

At each stop on the tour, public health, consumer and corporate accountability advocates from around the Americas are calling on key government officials to support the world's first public health treaty

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