Tobacco Control 2009;18:6-9
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NEWS ANALYSIS
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WORLD: HEALTH TRIUMPHS AT COP3
All articles written by David Simpson unless otherwise attributed. Ideas and items for News Analysis should be sent to: d.simpson@iath.org
In glorious contrast to how things used to go at intergovernmental meetings on tobacco control in the past, for decade upon exasperating decade, genuine public health concerns dominated the latest meeting to set guidelines for implementing the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). At the third Conference of Parties (CoP3) held in Durban, South Africa in November, a strong pro-health consensus among the large majority of the 160 governments that have both signed and ratified the treaty—the "parties"—defeated efforts to weaken policy guidelines to accommodate tobacco interests. Objectors to some of the decisions included the usual suspects, Japan, Germany and China, but it was the strength and solidarity of the majority that most impressed. Most notably, they specifically addressed the "fundamental and irreconcilable" incompatibility of the tobacco
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