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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedDeadline passes for United States to ratify WHO tobacco-control treaty.(WASHINGTON REPORT)(World Health Organization)
Tobacco Retailer, December, 2005
On Nov. 8, the U.S. government let pass an international deadline, failing to ratify the global tobacco treaty in time to vote at the first implementation and enforcement meeting early next year. The treaty, formally known as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, will save millions of lives, its proponents say, and change the way tobacco corporations operate around the world.
More than 100 countries have ratified the treaty. Throughout negotiations on the treaty, the United States faced sharp criticism and was accused of attempting to weaken some treaty provisions in ways that would benefit tobacco corporations like Philip Morris USA.
"Our government is prioritizing Big Tobacco's profits over people's lives and...
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