Strong FCTC

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On May 21, 2003, the World Health Organization adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty. The FCTC marked the first time the World Health Organization used its international legal powers to get countries to address the devastating effects and consequences of tobacco. The treaty went into effect in February, 2005 with standards to decrease worldwide tobacco use. The FCTC encourages countries to be even stricter than the treaty outlines by suggesting reducing supply and demand for tobacco, protecting people from tobacco exposure, regulating the contents of tobacco products, and holding the tobacco industry criminally and civilly liable. 

With no regard for the treaty, the tobacco industry has continued to interfere with public health policymaking to make up for decreased profits. The Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT) commits to keeping the tobacco industry out of public health policies across the world in order to protect countries from further harm.