Vice Squad
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
 
Japan Next to Ratify WHO Tobacco Treaty?
- posted by Jim Leitzel @ 5:35 PM

The global tobacco control agreement (pdf version here, 23 pages) worked out by the World Health Organization will come into effect when 40 of the 91 countries who have signed it also ratify it. So far, nine have done so, and Japan appears to be headed to be number 10. The treaty looks to reduce smoking and exposure to smoke through a variety of means, including taxes, packaging regulations, and advertising controls.

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