The Framework Convention Alliance

Strong policies are necessary to prevent the tobacco industry from constantly trying to shape and influence tobacco policy.

Three recently released documents provide evidence and support for such plans by helping to: raise awareness about the tobacco industry’s strategies used when undermining tobacco control efforts; set up systems to monitor tobacco industry activities; and protect against the industry’s interference in policy development, implementation and enforcement.

The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has a new list of advertising and promotion fact sheets on its website.

Visit the organisation’s website to learn more about tobacco advertising and promotion in terms of: essential facts, evidence, countering industry arguments and corporate social responsibility.

Factsheets are also available for tobacco advertising and youth in relation to the essential facts, evidence, marketing tactics and harms to youth.

Download the fact sheets: in English / Arabic / Chinese / French / Portuguese / Russian and Spanish.

Tobacco packs are designed by tobacco manufacturers to promote tobacco products and undermine the effectiveness of tobacco packaging laws, including laws mandating the display of health warnings and bans on misleading or deceptive information.

Tobacco packs are not simply containers for tobacco products. They should be regulated as the major promotional devices that they are. Tobacco products should be required to be sold in ‘plain packaging’.

Download the full fact sheet in English [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.23 MB], French [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 220.39 KB], Spanish [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 218.95 KB], Russian [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 232.36 KB], Arabic [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 322.71 KB], Chinese [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 507.21 KB].

Written for the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 17-22 November 2008, Durban, South Africa.

Download in English [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.59 MB], Spanish [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.42 MB], French [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.47 MB], Russian [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.48 MB], Chinese [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.64 MB]and Arabic [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 1.57 MB].

Written for the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO FCTC in Durban, South Africa, 17-22 November 2008, this FCA fact sheet covers the impact of tobacco marketing on tobacco consumption and the effectiveness of comprehensive bans: Findings of the Monograph on The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use.

 Download the PDF in English [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 80.23 KB, Chinese [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 242.69 KB], in Arabic [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 709.6 KB], in Russian [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 440.27 KB], in French [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 317.14 KB], in Spanish [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 319.13 KB].