In celebration of the World no Tobacco Day, the WHO FCTC Knowledge hub for Articles 17 and 18 has launched a campaign on the impacts of the tobacco production chain on the environment and workers' health.
Greenwashing é uma tática usada por indústrias nocivas para parecerem socialmente responsáveis, enquanto, na realidade, seus produtos e práticas de negócios estão destruindo o meio ambiente. A indústria do tabaco despeja resíduos tóxicos nas comunidades e esgota os recursos naturais. Não há nada de “verde” nisso. Mas a indústria finge que está se transformando ao fazer uma lavagem verde de sua imagem para construir influência junto aos formuladores de políticas, especialmente em países de baixa e média renda, e influenciar as políticas para ajudar os lucros das empresas de tabaco. o planeta, mas quando a indústria do tabaco o faz, também viola um tratado global de saúde pública.
SECREDOS sujos: Como a indústria do tabaco destrói o meio ambiente e esconde isso. A Global Tobacco Industry Watchdog (STOP), [s.l.], 25 mai. 2022.
Responsible for the development of the National Health Policy in his native Pakistan, Dr. Ehsan Latif, now based in Scotland, has a long career on the boards of various public health entities and international groups in the field of lung health and tobacco control established under the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control and the World Health Organization including The Framework Convention Alliance, the Non-Communicable Disease Alliance, and most recently (2009-2017) he was senior advisor for noncommunicable diseases and director of tobacco control at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases.
"The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was: 1 negotiated under the WHO Constitutional Mandate; 2 becoming the first convention with a modern structure with objectives in the field of Public Health, but also addressing the social, economic and environmental impact of tobacco. It currently covers more than 90 percent of the global population. It is an evidence-based treaty addressing both the supply and demand of tobacco products and reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health. It guides and informs the global tobacco control agenda and is a legally binding instrument."
DECLARAÇÃO da Secretaria da Convenção-Quadro da OMS para o Controle do Tabaco e o Protocolo para Eliminar o Comércio Ilícito de Produtos de Tabaco. Secretariado da Convenção-Quadro para o Controle do Tabaco, Uganda, 2 jul. 2019.
fact sheets with the topics considered outstanding in order to promote debates and decision making in the scope of tobacco control. In this edition, the following points are presented: Observatory has a new logo; women and the tobacco industry; slavery work; Cadernos de Saúde Pública and Rock in Rio and Souza Cruz are condemned for abusive advertising of tobacco products to young people.
KORNALEWSKI, Alex Medeiros; CARVALHO, Alexandre Octavio Ribeiro de; BARATA, Danielle; LEONEL, Filipe; TURCI, Silvana Rubano. Destaques do Observatório sobre as Estratégias da Indústria do Tabaco. Cetab/Ensp/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, mai. 2021. Acesso em: 5 maio 2021.
Os sistemas eletrônicos de entrega de nicotina e não nicotina (EN e NNDS) são uma classe heterogênea de produtos que use uma bobina eletricamente alimentada para aquecer e transformar um líquido em um aerossol, que é inalado pelo usuário. Embora as consequências dos efeitos de longo prazo sobre a morbidade e mortalidade ainda não tenham sido
estudados suficientemente, esses dispositivos não são seguros para jovens, mulheres grávidas e adultos que nunca fumaram.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. Electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems: a brief. Dinamacar, 2020. Disponível em: https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/443673/Electronic-n.... Acesso em: 12 mar. 2021.
fact sheets with the topics considered outstanding in order to promote debates and decision making in the scope of tobacco control. In this edition, the following points are presented: Fiocruz will house the newest WHO knowledge center; in an election year, Philip Morris aims to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions in tobacco producing municipalities; partnerships with the tobacco industry conflict with public health interests; good news: Marvel and Netflix pledge to decrease cigarette display.
KORNALEWSKI, Alex Medeiros; CARVALHO, Daniel da Costa e Silva de; BARATA, Danielle; LEONEL, Filipe; TURCI, Silvana Rubano. Destaques do Observatório sobre as Estratégias da Indústria do Tabaco. Cetab/Ensp/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, mai. 2017. Acesso em: 13 jul. 2017.
Background: The tobacco industry works to block, delay and weaken national tobacco control legislation to implement the FCTC. This paper reviews how Nepal overcame industry opposition and to a comprehensive tobacco control law implementing the FCTC.
Methods: We triangulated newspaper articles and policy documents with key informant interviews.
Results: With the support of international health groups, local tobacco control advocates worked with policymakers in Nepal to pass a comprehensive tobacco control law that exceeded FCTC obligations. The tobacco industry exploited a time of political transition to block consideration by Parliament, arranged and sponsored foreign tours for legislators, made death threats to tobacco control advocates and their families, and argued for the economic importance of tobacco farms. Despite strong interference from Health, and Law and Justice ministers, a 2009 Supreme Court ruling helped tobacco control advocates secure a comprehensive tobacco control law in 2011 that included rotating pictorial health warning labels covering 75% of both sides of cigarette packages, 100% smoke free public places and workplaces, private homes and vehicles, and a tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship ban.
Conclusions: Advocates in developing countries should utilize Nepal's experience to reject tobacco industry offers of compromise and continue educating politicians and legislators to generate political support to pass a comprehensive tobacco control law. Technical and financial support from international agencies, and effective collaboration and coordination of civil societies, and utilization of domestic litigation are helpful in LMICs where governance is weak.
Implications: The tobacco industry exploited a time of political transition in Nepal in its effort to block comprehensive tobacco control policy in Parliament by sponsoring foreign tours of legislatures, making death threats to tobacco control advocates and their families, and arguing for the economic importance of tobacco farms. Tobacco control advocates used litigation to raise awareness and educate legislators, and promote strong legislation with the involvement of international health groups. Technical and financial support from international agencies, and effective collaboration and coordination of civil societies, and utilization of domestic litigation are helpful in LMICs where governance is weak.
BHATTA, D. N. et al. Exceeding FCTC obligations: Nepal overcoming tobacco industry interference to enact a comprehensive tobacco control policy. Nicotine & Tobacco Research: Official Journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Reino Unido, v. xx, n. xx, p. 1-11, set. 2019.