COP 11 - Brazil: producing powerhouse, anti-tobacco voice

The Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), was adopted in 2003 and entered into force on February 27, 2005, when it reached the required number of 40 member countries signatories to the treaty. Brazil was the second country to sign the FCTC, on June 16, 2003, and currently, 183 countries are signatories to the international treaty. The document, signed in October 2005 by six ministers of state, was fundamental for the ratification, with reservations, of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC), of the World Health Organization (WHO). The Declaration ensures that Brazil would remain committed to the protection of tobacco producers and the defense of the free trade of the product – recognizing the economic and social importance of the activity, especially in regions of the South and Northeast of the country. Brazil was the second country to sign the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC), on June 16, ...