TY - JOUR T1 - Kenya: beach party “helps” tobacco bill JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 4 LP - 4 VL - 14 IS - 1 AU - David Simpson Y1 - 2005/02/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/14/1/4.1.abstract N2 - As we know, one of the most serious dangers of the implementation process of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is that tobacco companies will make cash strapped developing country governments offers they cannot refuse, to “help” draft the necessary laws. With this in mind, it is easy to imagine the bitter disappointment of Kenyan health advocates last November. In the same week that their country had proudly announced it was ratifying the FCTC, they learned of a junket thrown in connection with the country’s tobacco bill for more than 40 members of parliament (MPs), at an exclusive resort on the coast. Some of … ER -