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[Switzerland] BULLETIN TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER 2018 GLOBAL STRATEGY AND IRM – LET’S SHIFT GEARS (PDF)
A shocking statistic from the report that was not mentioned in the Secretariat’s presentation is that just 13 per cent of Parties to the FCTC are likely to achieve the agreed global targets to reduce tobacco use prevalence by 30 per cent by 2025.
Oct 2, 2018
Framework Convention Alliance (ch)
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Oct 4, 2018 18:26
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[Switzerland] Cost of cigarettes must rise to reflect environmental damage from tobacco industry, WHO says
Annual tobacco production contributes almost 84 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions to climate change... The price of a packet of cigarettes should rise to reflect the wide-ranging environmental damage caused by the tobacco industry, fr
Oct 2, 2018
The Independent (uk)
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Oct 3, 2018 19:14
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[Switzerland] Framework Convention On Tobacco Control Conference Opens With Calls For More Efforts In Less-Developed Countries
the WHO reported that that nearly two-thirds of the 181 states parties to the {FCTC] have developed strategies ‘to prevent tobacco industry interference with tobacco control policies.’ As a result of the treaty, countries have increased taxes on tobacco,
Oct 2, 2018
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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Oct 3, 2018 17:54
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[Switzerland] PMI Releases Position Paper for COP8: Addresses Need for Harm-Reduction Strategies
With more than one billion people expected to be smoking in 2025, PMI is urging the WHO, the hundreds of delegates convening in Geneva this week, and the wider public health community to embrace the potential of innovative alternatives to cigarettes in o
Oct 2, 2018
Business Wire
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Oct 2, 2018 19:21
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[Switzerland] PMI COP Positions Statement: Over one billion people will be smoking in 2025
The FCTC has continuously explored new ways to reduce smoking. Now, by combining existing prevention and cessation measures with the policy of harm reduction for tobacco products, the Parties can enhance the impact of the Convention, including by moving
Oct 2, 2018
Philip Morris International (ch)
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Oct 2, 2018 19:21
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[Switzerland, UK] BATES: Over 70 experts call on WHO to embrace technology innovation in the fight against diseases caused by smoking
Dear WHO FCTC, do not block the exits for people trying to quit smoking using vaping, smokeless, heated tobacco or novel products. Remember, the enemies of innovation can do more harm than good. Every two years, the Parties to the WHO Framework Conventi
Oct 1, 2018
The Counterfactual (Clive Bates blog) (uk)
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Oct 2, 2018 18:35
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[Switzerland] New report on global progress in implementation of tobacco control treaty
Dr Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva said, “We are happy to report, based on the information received from the Parties in the 2018 reporting cycle, that progress is evident in implementation of most articles to the Convention, especially the time bound measure
Oct 1, 2018
World Health Organization (WHO)
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Oct 2, 2018 15:25
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[Switzerland] Eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP8)
Tobacco control will be on the spotlight for a week in Geneva, the governing body of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Conference of the Parties will open its eighth session on 1 October 2018 and close on the following Saturday, 6 Octo
Oct 1, 2018
World Health Organization (WHO)
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Oct 2, 2018 15:24
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[Switzerland, UK] Report by Public Health Experts Laments "Missed Opportunity" as World Health Organization Debates Global Tobacco Policy
authors of a new report, "No Fire, No Smoke: Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction," are fiercely criticizing the WHO's record. The public health experts accuse the WHO of failing to comply with international treaty obligations to back reduced-harm alter
Oct 1, 2018
PR Newswire
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Oct 2, 2018 15:12
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[Switzerland, UK] Campaigners urge WHO to give vaping a chance
Seventy leading public health experts and anti-tobacco campaigners have urged the World Health Organization to adopt a more sympathetic attitude to ecigarettes and other alternatives to smoking, “which have the potential to bring the epidemic of smoking-c
Sep 30, 2018
Financial Times (uk)
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Oct 2, 2018 15:11