Public Health and tobacco control in Brazil

José Gomes Temporão
Cadernos de Saúde Pública - Public Health and tobacco control in Brazil: "According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), smoking accounts for 5 million deaths annually and may reach 10 million a year in the next 15 years if nothing is done to prevent the expansion of tobacco consumption, currently concentrated in the developing countries.
This scenario led 190 countries to propose, during the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1999, the negotiation of the first international public health treaty, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), which aims to 'protect the present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental, and economic consequences of tobacco consumption'. The Convention sets international tobacco control standards in the areas of advertising, tax and price policy, product labeling, illicit trade, passive smoking, and others."