Achieving the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s potential by investing in national capacity
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May 2003 marked a critical achievement in efforts to stem the global tobacco epidemic, as the member states of the World Health Organization unanimously endorsed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). However, the adoption of the FCTC signifies only the end of the beginning of effective global action to control tobacco. Over the next several years the utility of the FCTC process and the treaty itself will be tested as individual countries seek to ratify and implement the treaty’s obligations. Significant barriers to the treaty’s long term success exist in many countries. It is crucial that the international tobacco control community now refocuses its efforts on national capacity building and ensures that individual countries have the knowledge, tools, data, people, and organisations needed to implement the convention and develop sustained tobacco control programmes. This paper provides a model of national tobacco control capacity and offers a prioritised agenda for action.
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The survival of the FCTC depends not only on the will of countries but also the ability of the FCA to sustain the campaign at all levels of governance.
“For this reason, the survival of the FCTC depends not only on the will of countries but also the ability of the FCA to sustain the campaign at all levels of governance (Wipfli, Stillman et al. 2004).”
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The Abstract and Conclusion say the FCTC’s long-term success depends on countries’ capacity to implement it and sustain tobacco control. The Networking and leadership section describes the FCA’s work at national, regional, and international levels during the negotiations, but does not say the FCTC’s survival depends on the FCA sustaining a campaign at those levels. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe tobacco companies sought to weaken the influence of tobacco control civil society organisations in the FCTC process by infiltrating them to promote discord.
“The tobacco companies sought to weaken the influence of tobacco control civil society organisations in the FCTC process by infiltrating them to promote discord47-50.”
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The Networking and leadership section describes tobacco-control NGOs working together during FCTC negotiations, but does not describe tobacco companies infiltrating them or promoting discord. Searches for infiltration and for efforts to undermine NGOs found no passage addressing that allegation; page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.73)
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- Authors
- Wipfli, H., Stillman, F., Tamplin, S., da Costa e Silva, V. L., Yach, D., & Samet, J.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stillman, F
- Venue
- Tobacco Control
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2004-11-24
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 433-437
- ISSN
- 0964-4563 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-3318
- PMC
- PMC1747961
- OpenAlex
- W2105309031
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Tobacco Control (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Public Health Policies and Education
- Keywords
- Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, national capacity building, tobacco control policy implementation, treaty ratification, tobacco control programs, health system capacity
- MeSH terms
- Smoking Prevention, Financing, Organized, Health Policy, Health Priorities, Humans, International Cooperation, Leadership, National Health Programs, Research, Smoking, World Health Organization, Smoking Cessation, Cost of Illness, Tobacco Industry
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