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EDITORIAL
Global tobacco control
Injecting greater urgency into global tobacco control
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Derek Yach
Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; derek.yach@yale.edu
Keynote address at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco annual meeting, Prague, 21 March 2005
Abbreviations: BAT, British American Tobacco; CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; DFID, ????????????; EPA, Environmental Protection Agency; EU, European Union; FCTC, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; NGOs, non-governmental organisations; NIH, National Institutes of Health, NRT, nicotine replacement therapy; SRNT, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco; WHO, World Health Organization
Keywords: Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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This year has begun well for tobacco control. One hundred and ninety two countries, all members of the World Health Organization, have solemnly pledged to rid the world of the death and disease trail caused by tobacco. Sixty countries have ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and thus given us an instrument with which we can systematically tackle all aspects of tobacco control including agriculture and finance, trade and commerce, education and health.
Together with the then director general of the WHO, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, I had the privilege of laying the foundations upon which this public health edifice was built. When we started our work in July 1998, few believed we would succeed. The tobacco industry watched us with bated breath and tried to thwart our work at every step.
Last week, I asked friends on GLOBALink around the world what they considered
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