Tobacco treaty adds up: It's time for action

AMNews: Editorial - March 28, 2005. Tobacco treaty adds up: It's time for action ... American Medical News
The landmark Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has come into force without United States ratification. American lawmakers must step up.
Editorial. March 28, 2005.

Anyone interested in public health or tobacco control efforts will find the following collection of numbers important.

For starters: Three. That's how many years it took nations from around the globe working through the World Health Organization to negotiate the terms of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This document, which was unanimously adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003, marked an important first. Never before had a global agreement been formulated to respond to the rising worldwide death toll of tobacco-related illnesses.......