On 21 May 2019, the Brazilian government filed a lawsuit against two major tobacco companies to recover healthcare costs due to top 26 diseases scientifically proven to be […]

On 28 May 2019, Ugandan court junked a suit filed by British American Tobacco to challenge the constitutionality of Uganda’s Tobacco Control Act which came into force in […]

23 May 2019, Bangkok – The State of Kerala in India has adopted a comprehensive policy to protect its policies against the tobacco industry’s commercial and vested interests. […]

What is Philip Morris’s “Unsmoke” campaign? On 08 April 2019, Philip Morris International (PMI) launched “The Year of Unsmoke”— a call for action to “smokers, nonsmokers, […]

Statement from the Head of the Convention Secretariat, Dr Adriana Blanco Marquizo 4 May 2020 Source: WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Today, we are facing […]

28 May 2019, Bangkok – A French court ruled against tobacco advertising in Formula 1. Upon request for interim measures by the French civil society group CNCT (Comité […]

The McCabe Centre for Law &; Cancer has collaborated with our WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub colleagues at the University of Cape Town&;s Research Unit on the

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)1 was negotiated under WHO Constitutional mandate,2 becoming the first modern framework convention with specific public health objectives, but […]