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Engendering tobacco control: using an international public health treaty to reduce smoking and empower women

British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Vancouver, Canada

Correspondence to:
Dr L Greaves
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Box 48, E311-4500 Oak St, E3 Vancouver, Canada VGH 3NI; lgreaves@cw.bc.ca

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There are 1.3 billion smokers among the global population of 6 billion, the majority in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).¹ In all, 12% of the female population smokes regularly,² estimated to rise to 20% by 2025.³ Although global male smoking rates have reached their peak and are slowly waning, female rates are rising rapidly.⁴ Women from LMICs are becoming the biggest at-risk group, and tobacco companies describe women from LMICs as an "untapped market resource".⁵ The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has the potential to integrate gender and diversity into all future tobacco control. In the early stages of FCTC development, Ernster et al⁶ emphasised that the gendered nature of the tobacco epidemic necessitated gender-responsive policies. The FCTC incorporates gender concerns in its preamble and, in Article 4, suggests that countries "address gender-specific risks when developing tobacco control strategies" at national, regional . . . [Full text of this article]