Pressure is mounting on big tobacco firms to address health and environmental issues caused by tobacco use.
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) at the ongoing World Health Organisation (WHO) biennial tobacco control summit in Panamá City piled pressure on delegates to make tobacco firms pay for the ills.
Led by the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnational (NATT) and government champions, the CSOs urged the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to accept a draft decision strengthening nations’ ability to hold the industry liable.
The proposal is being championed by Oman, Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and co-sponsored by Brazil, Djibouti, Ghana, Iraq, Kuwait, Panama, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen.
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