Author: Feldbaum, Harley; Lee, Kelley; Michaud, Joshua
Title: Global Health and Foreign Policy Document date: 2010_4_27
ID: 1cpvboto_40
Snippet: The second critical diplomatic agreement on health was the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Approved by the World Health Assembly in 2003, the FCTC represents the WHO's first-ever use of its authority to create a global health treaty to ''reduce the growth and spread of the global tobacco epidemic'' (89, p. 936) . Unlike the IHRs, negotiation of the FCTC could not rely on the high political priority of such efforts. The WHO's Tobac.....
Document: The second critical diplomatic agreement on health was the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Approved by the World Health Assembly in 2003, the FCTC represents the WHO's first-ever use of its authority to create a global health treaty to ''reduce the growth and spread of the global tobacco epidemic'' (89, p. 936) . Unlike the IHRs, negotiation of the FCTC could not rely on the high political priority of such efforts. The WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative group gathered the extensive evidence that linked smoking to lung cancer, as well as studies on the negative economic impact caused by tobacco, which framed the treaty in terms of the economic self-interests of states (90) . The WHO also highlighted proven interventions that reduce tobacco consumption and formed a fruitful partnership with an effective coalition of nongovernmental organizations called the Framework Convention Alliance (91) .
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