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Tobacco Control 2006;15:348-349
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Mexico: backroom deal blunts health warnings

ERNESTO SEBRIE

University of California, San Francisco, USA; ernesto.sebrie@ucsf.edu

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Mexico signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in August 2003 and the Senate ratified the treaty in May 2004. Although Mexico was the first country in the Americas to become a party to the FCTC, legislation to implement fully the provisions about packaging and labelling has not been passed. Some bills introduced by national legislators sought to increase the size of the warning labels up to 50% on both main faces, to print more rotating messages, to ban deceptive descriptors, and also to include large pictorial warning labels similar to those introduced in Brazil, Canada, Uruguay, Australia, and Thailand. None of these bills was passed.


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USA:Sir Walter Raleigh, having returned from the dead and admitted that bringing tobacco back from the Americas had been a terrible mistake, hands it back to president George W Bush. The scene was part of a presentation at the world conference on . . . [Full text of this article]


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