Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, has ratified Friday, April 11, 2008, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of the World Health Organization (WHO FCTC).
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State Duma Ratified Tobacco Convention
Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, has ratified Friday, April 11, 2008, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of the World Health Organization (WHO FCTC).
The document bans all advertising, encouragement of sales and sponsorship of tobacco product. The country that joints the Convention won’t advertise tobacco during five years.
Besides, a member-state is to widen at least by 30 percent the space of the warning note on the pack with any tobacco product during three years after ratifying the Convention.
As many as 172 states, including the EU countries, are the WHO FCTC members today; the World Health Organization passed the Convention far back in May of 2003 at the 56th session of the World Health Assembly.
The RF government OKed the bill on the WHO FCTC membership January 10, 2008 and forwarded it to the State Duma February 26.
The smokers-to-nonsmokers ratio in Russia is two fold above the Europe’s indicator, and from 400,000 to 500,000 annually die from diseases caused by tobacco, said Olga Borzova, who chairs the State Duma’s Committee for Health Protection.
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