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18 مارس 2002

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UN Wire

TOBACCO: WHO Calls For Globalized Litigation As Treaty Talks Resume

The World Health Organization today called for a global approach to legal action against the tobacco industry as the agency opened its fourth round of talks on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Geneva. The U.N. agency released a report citing litigation already being taken, particularly in the United States, for harm caused by smoking...The WHO said that pioneering cases in Australia, Norway, Bangladesh, India, Saudi Arabia and India "showed the potential for litigation to advance tobacco control"