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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”.
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