COPing With the Global Tobacco Epidemic: FCTC COP7 and Its Implications

Abstract

This report analyses the outcome of the latest meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. In this context, it concentrates on the adopted amendments to the partial guidelines for implementation of Articles 9 and 10 of the Framework Convention, recommendations on the regulation of e-cigarettes, and discussion on the interactions between international trade/investment obligations and implementation of the obligations of the Convention.

Keywords: FCTC, WHO, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, tobacco control, e-cigarettes, international trade

JEL Classification: K33