In a significant legal victory for public health, Mexico's Fourth Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit has upheld the dismissal of an amparo challenge to the Decree Amending, Adding, and Repealing Several Provisions of the Regulation of the General Law for Tobacco Control.

Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) made important advances this week to fight tobacco, the world’s leading single preventable cause of death.
The tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the WHO FCTC took place in Panama City, Panama, the first in-person session of the COP in six years.

The Philippine government has celebrated an important win over the tobacco industry in a decision ten years in the making.