RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Tracking the relevance of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in legislation and litigation through the online resource, Tobacco Control Laws
JF Tobacco Control
JO Tob Control
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 457
OP 460
DO 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050854
VO 23
IS 5
A1 Monique E Muggli
A1 Annie Zheng
A1 Jonathan Liberman
A1 Nicholas Coxon
A1 Liz Candler
A1 Kaitlin Donley
A1 Patricia Lambert
YR 2014
UL http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/5/457.abstract
AB The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is increasingly referenced and incorporated into the objectives, definitions and provisions of domestic legislation worldwide. It is also relied upon by courts in interpreting and upholding strong tobacco control measures challenged by the tobacco industry. In this special communication, we describe these trends and explore the important new online resource—Tobacco Control Laws (http://www.tobaccocontrollaws.org)—that has been used to track them.