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    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a landmark treaty that aims to reduce tobacco use globally. It establishes several demand reduction measures including protection from secondhand smoke, packaging and labeling requirements, advertising bans, and education programs. Tobacco causes over 13,500 deaths per day and half of children are exposed to secondhand smoke at home. The WHO FCTC has been widely adopted, with 168 countries signing on. However, implementation challenges remain, especially assisting developing nations in enforcing tobacco control policies. The document expresses support for the WHO FCTC's efforts to curb the devastating health impacts of tobacco.

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    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a landmark treaty that aims to reduce tobacco use globally. It establishes several demand reduction measures including protection from secondhand smoke, packaging and labeling requirements, advertising bans, and education programs. Tobacco causes over 13,500 deaths per day and half of children are exposed to secondhand smoke at home. The WHO FCTC has been widely adopted, with 168 countries signing on. However, implementation challenges remain, especially assisting developing nations in enforcing tobacco control policies. The document expresses support for the WHO FCTC's efforts to curb the devastating health impacts of tobacco.

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    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a landmark treaty that aims to reduce tobacco use globally. It establishes several demand reduction measures including protection from secondhand smoke, packaging and labeling requirements, advertising bans, and education programs. Tobacco causes over 13,500 deaths per day and half of children are exposed to secondhand smoke at home. The WHO FCTC has been widely adopted, with 168 countries signing on. However, implementation challenges remain, especially assisting developing nations in enforcing tobacco control policies. The document expresses support for the WHO FCTC's efforts to curb the devastating health impacts of tobacco.

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    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a landmark treaty that aims to reduce tobacco use globally. It establishes several demand reduction measures including protection from secondhand smoke, packaging and labeling requirements, advertising bans, and education programs. Tobacco causes over 13,500 deaths per day and half of children are exposed to secondhand smoke at home. The WHO FCTC has been widely adopted, with 168 countries signing on. However, implementation challenges remain, especially assisting developing nations in enforcing tobacco control policies. The document expresses support for the WHO FCTC's efforts to curb the devastating health impacts of tobacco.

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    WHO FCTC 1

    Objective: Celebrating the “WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY 2011” (31st May)

    Student’s Name: Asif Al Mahmood ([email protected])

    Dept. of Pharmacy, Faculty of Basic Medical & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Science &
    Technology Chittagong (USTC)

    Caption of the Topic: “The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control”- a correct
    bold step towards tobacco control

    Prefatory:
    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the first treaty negotiated
    under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The WHO FCTC is an evidence-based treaty that
    reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health. The WHO FCTC represents a paradigm
    shift in developing a regulatory strategy to address addictive substances; in contrast to previous drug
    control treaties, the WHO FCTC asserts the importance of demand reduction strategies as well as supply
    issues.

    Highlights of the Convention:

    Several non-price measures to reduce the demand for tobacco, namely:

    Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke;


    Regulation of the contents of tobacco products;
    Regulation of tobacco product disclosures;
    Packaging and labeling of tobacco products;
    Education, communication, training and public awareness;
    Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; and,
    Demand reduction measures concerning tobacco dependence and cessation and so on.

    Tobacco Facts:

    Tobacco causes around 13 500 deaths per day


    Half of children are exposed to tobacco smoke at home
    47.5% of men smoke
    10.3% of women smoke

    Tobacco causes serious health problems like;

    Hair Loss, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Cataract, Wrinkling. Hearing Loss,
    Emphysema (an abnormal swelling and rupturing of lung’s air sack), and Skin Cancer etc.

    Asif Mahmood
    WHO FCTC 2

    Youth and tobacco: Shocking imprecation scares the future:

    To take the first step, I find it nostalgic illustrating the crisis sketching a substantial reflection where the
    reader of this article would discover himself/herself plotting a few years stepped behind. This is not very
    past when our youth was pride, our gratification. But now we can hardly cover this fact due to the
    unbound promotion and proliferative reach of tobacco to the young. It was predicted that if the pattern
    seen nowadays continued, a lifetime of tobacco use would result in the deaths of 250 million children
    and young people alive today.

    Thanks to “The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control”: A key milestone

    This month marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the World Health Organization
    Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). This Convention is unique for two reasons: it
    is the first international treaty negotiated under WHO’s umbrella and with 168 Parties (countries that
    are either Member States of WHO or the United Nations as well as regional economic integration
    organizations), it has become one of the most widely and rapidly ratified treaties in the history of the
    United Nations.

    Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI):

    Every Year, World Health Organization celebrates World No Tobacco Day on 31 May to draw global
    attention to the devastating health effect of tobacco use and the importance of the tobacco control
    program focusing on an important aspect of the program. This year WHO has selected "The WHO
    Framework Convention on Tobacco Control" as the theme of the Day.

    Implementation Challenge:

    Action is therefore needed to assist developing country Parties and Parties with economies in transition
    in the implementation of effective tobacco-control measures at country level, as required by the WHO
    FCTC.

    168 States signed the WHO FCTC during a period expressing their willingness to become a Party to the
    Convention (Bangladesh-16 June 2003).

    Finally, Compliments to WHO FCTC & Wishing its best:

    As a final point, again I am individually supportive to WHO FCTC for its judicial approaches towards
    tobacco control which has already been undertaken.

    Asif Mahmood

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