FRAMEWORK CONVENTION
June 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLWITH the World Health Organisation securing approval for its long debated Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, attention is now turning to ratifications by member countries: 40 are needed for it to come into force, Last minute concessions were made at the WHO to bring dissenters such as Germany and the United States on board, who had objected to the convention's insistence on signatory governments banning tobacco advertising; both countries said this broke constitutional guarantees of free speech. The final text says that states should ban ...
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