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The WHO accused of rewriting FCTC clause
Tobacco Reporter ^
| Friday, February 20, 2004
| Unknown
Posted on 02/22/2004 1:12:23 PM PST by lockjaw02
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a checklist for countries outlining actions required to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In the document, the WHO says countries must take measures to restrict or prohibit duty-free sales of tobacco products. According to the International Travel Retail Confederation (ITRC), this violates the final text of the FCTC, which states that countries may choose to implement restrictions on duty-free sales of tobacco, but are not required to do so.
Keith Spinks, the director-general of the ITRC, says, The WHO is re-interpreting the Convention in an effort to convince signatories to the treaty that banning duty-free sales is mandatory. However, this is not how the final agreed text of the Convention reads.
The guidelines are part of an undated, informal paper entitled Requirements of the WHO FCTC to be fulfilled by Parties through action at the national level, subtitled Checklist. The paper defines the required legal actions as adopting policies, enacting legislation and taking related action to regulate issues such as pricing and taxation of tobacco products, restriction of duty-free sales, protection from exposure to tobacco smoke, restricting or prohibiting advertising, and preventing illicit trade.
The paper was one of three informal notes described as guideline papers on implementing the FCTC treaty found on the WHOs Western Pacific Regional Office Web site. They do not appear on any other WHO public site, says the ITRC.
Spinks adds, This informal paper is a clear indication that the WHO intends to use its influence with national governments to press for action against the duty-free trade. I believe this development must finally convince the global industry that it remains under direct threat from the WHOs tobacco treaty, and that it must continue to fight for its business.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pufflist; smokingbans; tobacco; who
Again the WHO uses lies and deceit to advance its agenda. Who'da thunk it?
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:12:26 PM PST
by
lockjaw02
To: *puff_list; Hot Tabasco; bc2; The Mayor; qam1; VermiciousKnid; Madame Dufarge; SheLion; Gabz; ...
(ping)
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:15:44 PM PST
by
lockjaw02
("Man's capacity for self-deception is unlimited." --George H Tausch)
To: lockjaw02
Since the deaths of Moon and Entwistle, Daltry and Townsend have gotten into some interesting issues.
To: lockjaw02
Roger Daltrey?....Pete Townsend?...I'll never buy their records again!
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:19:53 PM PST
by
isom35
To: KangarooJacqui
Oh, and a (ping) to the lovely lady from down under who graced the lounge this past Friday to help fight the socialists down there.
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:25:59 PM PST
by
lockjaw02
("Man's capacity for self-deception is unlimited." --George H Tausch)
To: lockjaw02; *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Madame Dufarge; MeeknMing; ...
The WHO is choking the economy of the free world! How can they be allowed to get away with this!
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:27:43 PM PST
by
SheLion
(Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
To: isom35
To: lockjaw02
With all the real illnesses in the world doesn't the WHO have more to do than worry about this stuff.
I wish they would just outlaw the sale of tobacco products and then I could just find my local Al Capone and stop reading all of this crap.
It's all about the taxes,the hypocrites!
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:30:08 PM PST
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen---caviar and cigarettes.)
To: SheLion
Because they don't preform their original recordings any more.
BTW I here baldi is going to sign legislature ordering the who to preform the magic bus again.
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:30:31 PM PST
by
dts32041
( "Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.")
To: dts32041
I wish it WAS just a rock group we were up against. :(
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:31:44 PM PST
by
SheLion
(Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
To: isom35
They were awesome at the September 11 memorial concert - what happened??
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:41:01 PM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
(LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?)
To: So Cal Rocket; isom35; Libertarian444; dts32041
I wish Daltrey and Townsend would put this in a song. Hell, I'd even settle for Joan Baez.
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:45:20 PM PST
by
lockjaw02
("Man's capacity for self-deception is unlimited." --George H Tausch)
To: lockjaw02
First they suppressed their own SHS study when it didn't reach their preordained conclusions and now they're trying to con people that a "convention" contains language which it does not contain.
Who the F are these people?
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:47:59 PM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: metesky
They're the monster that was under the bed when we were kids, now all grown up and in the flesh.
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:50:49 PM PST
by
lockjaw02
("Man's capacity for self-deception is unlimited." --George H Tausch)
To: metesky
See me, feel me, touch me...
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posted on
02/22/2004 1:53:11 PM PST
by
lockjaw02
("Man's capacity for self-deception is unlimited." --George H Tausch)
To: lockjaw02
Thanks for the ping.
The WHO can sod off (the UN organisation, that is, not the band). Duty-free smokes are the only (reasonably) cheap cigarettes we can get down here.
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posted on
02/22/2004 3:01:31 PM PST
by
KangarooJacqui
(The pen is mightier than the sword... does that make the keyboard mightier than the AK-47?)
To: lockjaw02
So now we are under the control of the UN and WHO.... nice.
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posted on
02/22/2004 3:30:07 PM PST
by
Great Dane
(You can smoke just about everywhere in Denmark.)
To: lockjaw02
Ping BUMP for the morning..........
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posted on
02/22/2004 8:29:00 PM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't fund smokers - they don't care about their customers)
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