Foreign
Desk
| May 22, 2003, Thursday
World
Health Meeting Approves Treaty to Discourage
Smoking
By ALISON LANGLEY (NYT) 564 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 11 , Column 1
ABSTRACT
- World Health Assembly adopts treaty
intended to discourage cigarette smoking and
to reduce estimated five million deaths it
causes every year; health advocates say next
step is to get treaty ratified by nations
throughout world; treaty, called Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control, would ban
advertising and sponsorship of television
programs and entertainment by tobacco
companies; it would impose warning label
that would cover 30 percent of packaging on
smoking products and require that all
ingredients be listed on packaging; 192
members of World Health Orgn adopt treaty
after US drops earlier objections, although
Sec Tommy G Thompson refuses to say whether
Bush administration will recommend approval
of treaty; China, another large cigarette
producer, also makes no commitment (M) The
World Health Assembly today adopted the
first treaty ever devoted entirely to
health, one intended to discourage cigarette
smoking and to reduce the estimated five
million deaths it causes every year.
Health advocates said the next step would
be to get the treaty ratified by nations
throughout the world. While many countries,
including those in the European Union and a
number of African nations, said they would
quickly sign the treaty, the United States
and China -- both large tobacco producers --
made no immediate commitment.
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