WHO CONVENTION
November 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE FINAL round of negotiations leading to a UN Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at the World Health Organisation will begin in February 2003 with many issues still outstanding, including the all-important question of advertising. It became clear at the fifth round, which ended in October, that the US and the EU are still far apart on the question of tobacco advertising. While the EU is moving towards a total ban, the Americans argued that this would compromise freedom of speech. The support shown for President Bush in the American ...
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