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Policy progress of health warnings on tobacco products as per Article 11 of WHO FCTC: a global analysis

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background This paper evaluates the coverage and quality of global implementation of Article 11 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), for Cigarettes (CIG) and Smokeless Tobacco (SLT).
Shekhar Grover   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Tobacco Smoking and Cardiovascular Health in Africa: Trends, Interventions, and Policy Implications-A Narrative Review. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Tobacco smoking in Africa presents a significant public health challenge, particularly concerning cardiovascular health among young adults and men. While global smoking prevalence has declined, World Health Organization (WHO) projections estimate that the total number of tobacco smokers in Africa will rise from 57 million ...
Fatokun BS   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The WHO FCTC’s lessons for addressing the commercial determinants of health [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Promotion International, 2021
Summary The tobacco, alcohol, beverage, processed food, firearms, gambling, fossil fuel and mining industries, inter alia, are implicated in fostering negative commercial determinants of health. They do this by shaping our environments, tastes, knowledge and politics in favour of the unlimited consumption and unencumbered promotion of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and Japanese anti-tobacco measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Japanese anti-tobacco measures are reviewed and checked the relationship between the FCTC and its changes. Japan is making efforts to follow the FCTC, but it is insufficient and present anti-tobacco measures seem to have only a little impact on ...
Keiko Kusaka   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Implementation of tobacco control measures in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, 2008–2020

open access: yesSubstance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was developed to assist nations in reducing the demand and supply of tobacco.
Sarah S. Monshi, Jennifer Ibrahim
doaj   +1 more source

Tobacco industry influence in low- and middle-income countries in the ASEAN region: Qualitative interviews with tobacco control experts during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2022
Introduction While most Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries have adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), implementation and enforcement of measures are lacking in some low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in ...
Thomas Stubbs   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Calling on the European civil society to support global implementation of the WHO FCTC and its Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2016
The intervention of the Head of the Convention Secretariat will focus on how the European civil society could support global implementation of the WHO FCTC and its Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.
Vera Luiza Da Costa e Silva
doaj   +1 more source

Part II: Moving in the right direction: Tobacco packaging and labeling in the Americas

open access: yesTobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023
Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 11 recommends provisions on packaging and labeling for tobacco products, including health warning labels (HWLs), constituents and emissions ...
Ernesto M Sebrie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urgent need for implementing media education campaigns and health warnings in Parties with high burden of SLT use

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background The FCTC country reports indicate that 70% of the reporting parties have implemented Article 12 in their jurisdictions. The MPOWER Report 2015 also indicates that nearly 40% of the Parties conducted at least one anti-tobacco national mass ...
Amit Yadav   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

WHO FCTC article 5.3: promise but little progress [PDF]

open access: yesTobacco Control, 2014
Six years after the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) adopted strong implementation guidelines for the treaty's Article 5.3,1 that article's promise for protecting tobacco control policymaking from tobacco industry interference remains almost entirely unrealised.
Malone, Ruth E, Bialous, Stella Aguinaga
openaire   +4 more sources

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