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28th November 2023
World: The tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), due to be held this month in Panama and postponed due to the country's “current security situation”, was rescheduled. It will be held from 5th to 10th February 2024.9th November 2023
- World: The tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has been postponed to 2024. COP10 was due to be held this month in Panama, but will now be held there at an undetermined date in 2024, according to FCTC authorities. They attributed the delay to “the current security situation in Panama”.
13th October 2023
- Global: International E-waste Day is celebrated tomorrow (14th October). The yearly awareness-raising day initiated by the WEEE Forum, an international association of organisations of electronics manufacturers and importers, aims to highlight the growing issue of e-waste and promote responsible e-waste management. Products with electrical or electronic components, including vaping or heated tobacco devices with batteries, should be part of the recycling stream.
26th September 2023
- Global: The World Health Organization (WHO) has released two new publications – “Freedom from tobacco and nicotine: guide for schools” and “Nicotine- and tobacco-free school toolkit” – which entail step-by-step manuals for schools to create nicotine- and tobacco-free campuses. The publications highlight four methods to foster these nicotine- and tobacco-free campuses: banning nicotine and tobacco products on school campuses, prohibiting the sale of nicotine and tobacco products near schools, banning direct and indirect ads and their promotion near schools, and refusing sponsorship or engagement with the tobacco and nicotine industries. The WHO believes that "the tobacco industry relentlessly targets young people with tobacco and nicotine products resulting in e-cigarette use increasing and 9 out of 10 smokers starting before the age of 18".
29th August 2023
- Global: A new standard operating procedure for measuring the nicotine, glycerol and propylene glycol content in the tobacco of heated tobacco products has been published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The purpose of it is to "support countries in strengthening tobacco product regulation and thus the implementation of Articles 9 and 10 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control" and "provide technical leadership in tobacco product testing".
11th August 2023
- Global: Another report on heated tobacco products (HTPs) that will be discussed at the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Panama in November 2023 (COP10) has been uploaded to the COP10 website. The report invites parties to consider regulating and taxing HTPs akin to conventional cigarettes and consider whether amendments are necessary to ensure that HTP devices cannot be used to circumvent or undermine existing tobacco control laws. Other policy recommendations include strictly enforcing laws relating to misleading or deceptive claims that imply that HTPs reduce health risks relative to conventional cigarettes, taxing HTP devices, restricting the use of flavours that appeal to minors, and extending packaging and labelling laws (including those requiring health warnings) that govern tobacco products to HTP devices.
1st August 2023
Global: A report on heated tobacco products (HTPs) has been produced for discussion at the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Panama in November (COP10). The report – an updated version of the one considered at COP9 in 2021 – lays out several policy options, including regulating HTPs as tobacco products, taxing them at the same rate as conventional cigarettes, regulating their contents and emissions, and requiring large graphic health warnings and plain packaging.
1st August 2023
Global: The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday released its “report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2023: protect people from tobacco smoke”, which examines progress made by countries in tobacco control since 2008. The report also analyses the relationship between emerging tobacco and nicotine products and tobacco control measures, concluding that “with new and emerging threats such as those posed by electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and the ongoing presence of an ever-shifting industry, we still have so much work to do”. The report claims that “since their emergence, heated tobacco products (HTPs) have been marketed by the tobacco industry with health and cessation claims that are not supported by independent, robust evidence”.
17th July 2023
- Global: New reports that will, in accordance with the draft agenda, be discussed during the Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in November 2023 have been uploaded to the WHO FCTC website. A report on the implementation of Articles 9 and 10 of the WHO FCTC (regulation of contents and disclosure of tobacco products) calls on the WHO to "develop standard operating procedures to test smokeless tobacco products", while acknowledging that "work is currently ongoing to develop methods for the contents in liquids for electronic cigarettes, and both contents and emissions in heated tobacco products". Another report on tobacco advertising includes draft guidelines to be adopted by the COP, which would call on the parties to "monitor advances and changes in communications technology, entertainment media consumption and marketing strategies relating to all tobacco products (including novel and emerging tobacco products)".
14th July 2023
- Global: The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that tobacco taxation efforts have been inconsistent, with some sub-regions making slower progress on imposing a minimum 75% tax share of the retail price of tobacco. It highlighted that taxation is a crucial tool in the effort to attain a tobacco-free Europe and underlines that the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) encourages price and tax measures, including increasing taxes to raise the sales price of tobacco products and prohibiting or restricting sales of tax- and duty-free tobacco products.
10th July 2023
- Global: The Convention Secretariat of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has released the provisional agenda for the Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO FCTC, scheduled to take place in Panama in November 2023. The provisional agenda, which needs to be adopted by the COP, includes the discussion of reports presented by the WHO on novel and emerging tobacco products, tobacco advertising in entertainment media and on forward-looking tobacco control measures. The reports that will be discussed will be uploaded over the coming weeks to the WHO FCTC website.
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