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COP11 delivers incremental wins, but remains weak on new nicotine products
The FCTC (Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) secretariat says that the week-long discussions resulted in decisions on: tobacco control and the environment; increasing resources for tobacco control; forward-looking tobacco control measures; and issues relating to the liability of the tobacco industry for the damage it causes.
"These important decisions made by Parties to the Convention will contribute towards saving millions of lives in the years to come and protecting the planet from the environmental harms of tobacco," said Acting Head of the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC Andrew Black.
The week was marred by what the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control described as the “unprecedented, systematic and coordinated tobacco and nicotine industry interference tactics, including direct...
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