Tobacco Industry Uses Social Media to Circumvent Bans

Delegates from 137 countries are attending a week-long anti-tobacco conference to exchange ideas and propose policies for tackling the worldwide tobacco pandemic. Organizers say progress has been made since the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control came into force in 2005, but more needs to be done. Organizers of the 8th Conference of the Parties to the WHO Convention, known as COP8, credit high taxes on cigarette packages for discouraging sales, as well...

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