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SUNS #4424 ,Wednesday 28 April 1999


contents

Health: Extend food and drug regulations to tobacco industry (Chakravarthi Raghavan, Geneva)

Health: U.S. won't destroy its smallpox stocks (IPS, Washington)

Finance: Third World must make do with less (IPS, Washington)

Bangladesh: Debates how to tackle poverty (IPS, Dacca)

Development: Civil society role between politics and corporations (IPS, Helsinki)

Environment: Groups want action on destructive shrimp farms (IPS, New York)

Pakistan: AsDB market roads anger locals, greens (IPS, Islamabad)

Mexico: Oil spills into negotiations on maritime boundaries (IPS, Mexico City)


Excerpts from some selected articles:

Health: Extend food and drug regulations to tobacco industry

Geneva, 27 Apr (Chakravarthi Raghavan) -- The head of the World Health Organization, Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland has called for extending food and drug regulatory rules governing sales and promotion of nicotine delivery services to cigarette and tobacco industry products.

Speaking at a conference in Berlin of international drug regulatory authorities, Mrs. Brundtland said: "A cigarette is an euphemism for a cleverly crafted product that delivers just the right amount of nicotine to keep its user addicted for life before killing the person... the product should be judged for what it is, not what it is made out to be by the tobacco industry."

Mrs. Brundtland's call for extending the reach of food and drug regulations and regulatory authorities to cigarettes and other tobacco products, comes even as WHO executive board is asking the World Health Assembly, at its meeting in Geneva in May, to decide on a negotiating process to negotiate a framework convention on tobacco control (FTCC), and perhaps some related protocols.

The Assembly is being asked to decide to set up an intergovernmental body, open to all Member states, to draft and negotiate the proposed FTCC and possible related protocols.


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