Abstract
To keep abreast of strategies and actions of the tobacco industry to interfere in tobacco control and take effective measures. Monitoring tobacco industry related news, websites, social media and publications in an all-round way and watching tobacco policies, marketing, promotion and other activities that interfere in tobacco control closely. Having been engaging in tracking and monitoring the tobacco industry for eight years, Think Tank Research Center for Health Development has timely disclosed the tobacco industry’s activities that went against the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. We worked with public interest lawyers and made complaints to related legal authorities, as a result, illegal activities of the tobacco industry have been stopped, investigated and dealt with. Relative information has been publicized and spread through media to expose and crack down on all activities minimizing harm of smoking and misleading the public. Think Tank Research Center’s exploration into and practice in tracking tobacco are comprehensive, documentary, timely and well directed. Tracking and monitoring of our civil institution have strongly fought back against the tobacco industry’s anti-tobacco control activities! We call on that a national-wide, all-inclusive and systematic monitoring system should be established for the tobacco industry.
Highlights
Article 5.3 in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of WTO pointed out, “When making and practicing public health policies in the aspect of tobacco control, all contracting parties shall act according to national laws to prevent the policies from being affected by commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry”
We have paid close attention to, explored into and practiced in tracking and monitoring Chinese tobacco industry’s activities as well as edited the Tobacco Tracking Briefing for the reference of enthusiastic persons who cared about tobacco control
The Tobacco Tracking Briefing aims at tracking situations and information of the tobacco industry in such aspects as policies, leadership trends, production, sales, tobacco culture and enterprise social responsibility; tracking the competent government departments’ measures and actions in performance; observing and commenting on tobacco enterprises’ activities that violate the Convention while focusing on reflecting new situations, trends and problems related to tobacco control from both sides so as to report the latest dynamics of tobacco to people that are enthusiastic in tobacco control
Summary
Article 5.3 in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (hereinafter referred to as Convention) of WTO pointed out, “When making and practicing public health policies in the aspect of tobacco control, all contracting parties shall act according to national laws to prevent the policies from being affected by commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry”. WTO pointed out that the tobacco industry had tried to take various forms of interference in the implementation of effective tobacco control policies, including kidnapping political and legislative process, overstating the industry’s importance in economy, manipulating public opinion, falsifying support through frontier groups, slandering scientific evidence about tobacco and second-hand smoke and threatening the government with accusation or threatening to sue the government [1]. Article 20.4 in the Convention put forward explicit requirements on monitoring the tobacco industry, emphasizing that all contracting states should collect and exchange “information related to the Convention, including the tobacco industry’s activities and tobacco planting” t [3]. We have paid close attention to, explored into and practiced in tracking and monitoring Chinese tobacco industry’s activities as well as edited the Tobacco Tracking Briefing for the reference of enthusiastic persons who cared about tobacco control
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