In line with Article 5.3, industry has been entirely excluded from the UN system and its agencies have been urged to devise strategies to prevent industry interference.
The United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of NCDs , which has both the WHO and the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC as leading participants, has crafted a Model policy for agencies of the United Nations system on preventing tobacco industry interference, a strong policy to prevent industry tactics operating in the UN and then ensured its implementation at the intergovernmental level.
In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Resolution for Smoke-free United Nations Premises, and in 2012, the United Nations Economic and Social Council called for “system-wide coherence on tobacco control”.
The creation of smoke-free campuses puts into practice the United Nations smoke-free workplace policy, which aims to protect approximately 100,000 UN staff members from second-hand tobacco smoke.
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世卫组织和《世卫组织框架公约》秘书处表示,不应与无烟世界基金会等烟草业一线集团建立伙伴关系。
WHO and the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC have stated that no partnerships should be forged with tobacco industry front groups such as the Foundation for a Smoke Free World.
PMI has committed to spending one billion USD over 12 years funding a new captive organization, the Foundation for a Smoke Free World (FSFW) – Philip Morris International (PMI) is its sole funder – to reproduce and launder its harm-reduction messages.
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烟草税和无烟工作场所的重要性
The importance of tobacco duties and taxes and smoke-free workplaces
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尽管烟草业带来了这些挑战,但世界在烟草控制方面取得了重大进展。
Despite these challenges brought on by the tobacco industry, the world has seen significant progress in tobacco control.
Since the MPOWER technical package was introduced more than a decade ago, 5 billion people have now been covered by at least one of these best-practice tobacco control measures, has more than quadrupled since 2007.Over the last two decades, global tobacco use has fallen by 60 million people.
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在过去的20年里,全球烟草使用者减少了6000万人。
But the decrease varies by region and we are now seeing the tobacco industry vigorously target low-and middle-income countries with traditional cigarettes, while pushing its new and emerging products in higher income countries.