TOBACCO TREATY

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Health Organisation member governments have been meeting from October 14-25 to press ahead with the development of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The fifth session of the Inter-governmental Negotiating Body examined a draft created from discussions held over the past four years on the advertising, promotion, sales and smuggling of tobacco.



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