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  • Introduction 02

    Why does the tobacco industry need to

    catch teenagers and young adults? 03

    What is the tobacco marketing net? 05

    1. Promotion 05

    2. Product Design 08

    3. Place 09

    4. Price 09

    Why are tobacco advertising, promotion

    and sponsorship a threat to young

    people? 11

    1. Increase the likelihood of tobacco use 11

    2. Normalize tobacco use 12

    3. Endanger health 12

    · Why do we need a comprehensive ban

    on advertising, promotion and

    sponsorship? 13

    Is the developing world’s youth

    particularly at risk? What about young

    women and girls? 14

    · Is a comprehensive advertising ban

    the only way to protect youth from

    tobacco use? 16

    References 17

    WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY, 31 MAY • TOBACCO-FREE YOUTH

  • INTRODUCTION

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    “Reversing this entirely preventable tobacco epidemic mustnow rank as a top priority for public health and for politicalleaders in every country of the world.”

    Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General

    The tobacco industry casts a global net to capture young people in its deadly snare. The industry

    spends tens of billions of dollars each year marketing its products, and enticing young people into

    tobacco addiction is a major goal of these efforts. With a closely woven marketing net that includes

    advertising, promotion and sponsorship, the industry has successfully linked tobacco with glamour,

    fun and adventure to lure the world’s youth. The more young people are exposed to these

    messages and ploys, the more likely they are to use tobacco.

    Approximately 1.8 billion young people aged 10-24 live in our world today, more than 85%

    of them in developing countries. Having survived the vulnerable childhood period, these

    young people are generally healthy. However, as the tobacco industry intensifies its efforts

    to hook a new generation of replacement smokers, the results will be catastrophic.

    Currently, 5.4 million people die each year from the global tobacco epidemic. The death toll

    is rising relentlessly, and will reach over 8 million a year in two decades, with more than 80%

    of those deaths occurring in the developing world. Unless major action is taken, it is

    estimated that up to one billion people could die from tobacco use during the 21st century.

    To reverse these trends and protect young people from the harm caused by tobacco, we

    must move beyond half-measures. We must break the tobacco marketing net by banning

    tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. Partial advertising bans are ineffective;

    the tobacco industry adeptly shifts its resources from one promotional tactic to another.

    Only a total, comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship will

    effectively reduce tobacco consumption. This is clearly reflected in Article 13 of the WHO

    Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and is also a major element of the WHO

    MPOWER policies to reverse the tobacco epidemic.

    The World Health Organization dedicates World No Tobacco Day 2008 to a global ban on

    all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship and calls upon governments,

    organizations and individuals to help break the marketing net so that young people around

    the world can grow up tobacco-free.

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    “… If the tobacco companies really stopped marketing tochildren, the tobacco companies would be out of businessin 25 to 30 years because they will not have enoughcustomers to stay in business1.”

    Bennett LeBow

    CEO of Vector Group, Holding company

    for Liggett Group Inc.

    The survival of the tobacco industry depends on attracting and retaining young people as

    consumers of its products. Without new, young tobacco users to replace those who quit or

    die, the tobacco industry could not continue to exist.

    The industry claims that tobacco marketing only influences brand loyalty in current

    users and does not recruit new smokers. But research shows otherwise. Many

    consumer studies have consistently shown a strong link between advertising and

    smoking in young people. The more aware and appreciative young people are of

    tobacco advertising, the more likely they are to smoke or to say they intend to. In

    addition, the renowned Cochrane Collaboration reviewed nine major studies that

    followed more than 12 000 nonsmokers and their exposure to advertising. It found

    that, in all of the studies, nonsmoking adolescents who were more aware of, or

    receptive to, tobacco advertising were more likely to become smokers later2.

    Corporate documents also show immense efforts by cigarette manufacturers to monitor

    youth smoking patterns of use and preferences3 . Youth lifestyles, attitudes, motivations

    and aspirations are all subjected to detailed market research, and every strategy is used to

    attract and retain young people as consumers. This intense focus on young people

    reinforces how important they are to the industry’s bottom line.

    WHY DOES THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY NEEDTO CATCH TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS?

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    “The cigarette industry has been artfully maintaining thatcigarette advertising has nothing to do with total sales.This is complete and utter nonsense. The industry knows itis nonsense. I am always amused by the suggestion thatadvertising, a function that has been shown to increaseconsumption of virtually every other product, somehowmiraculously fails to work for tobacco products7.”

    Emerson Foote, 1988

    Former advertising executive

    While youth tobacco sales help to generate immediate revenue for tobacco companies,

    what is most important to the industry is capturing smokers while they are young to

    establish long-term consumer relationships. New smokers quickly develop brand loyalty

    and by hooking young smokers to a particular brand, a tobacco company will generate

    revenue for the long term. As young smokers move from experimentation to addiction, the

    only winners in this scenario are the tobacco companies and their shareholders.

    The tens of billions of dollars that the industry spends each year to market its products

    would thus appear to be a worthwhile investment in creating and sustaining high levels of

    youth smoking. As a consequence, most people begin using tobacco well before the age

    of 18 years4,5, and almost a quarter of them begin using tobacco before the age of 106. The

    younger children are when they first try smoking, the more likely they are to become regular

    tobacco users and the less likely they are to quit. To the tobacco industry, the world's 1.8

    billion youth, particularly the 85% of this population living in developing countries,

    represents the key to its continuing survival.

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    WHAT IS THE TOBACCO MARKETING NET?

    The tobacco industry’s marketing net is made up of many strands of advertising, promotion

    and sponsorship strategies, all of which work together to promote and reinforce tobacco

    use, particularly among youth. However, to achieve this goal to the maximum effect, the

    tobacco industry uses a very sophisticated integrated marketing mix, based not only on

    promotion, but also on product, place (distribution) and price8. This strategy is known in

    the business world as the “four P’s”.

    For example, the marketing of a premium cigarette brand will include advertising strategies

    involving mass media and other innovative promotions, wide distribution with point-of-sale

    promotions, a stylish and easily recognized pack design, and a price that reflects its select

    marketing position. With this kind of synchronized approach, a company maximizes the

    cumulative impact of its marketing efforts.

    1. PROMOTION

    Promotion includes all levels of communication with a target group and includes a

    wide variety of strategies ranging from television advertisements and free product

    samples to sponsorship of sports and the arts. Although many countries have

    banned direct advertising of tobacco products, it is essential that indirect advertising

    also be prohibited, since research shows that only a comprehensive ban will

    significantly reduce tobacco consumption.

    a. Direct Advertising

    Direct advertising is a more traditional form of promoting tobacco products and is

    conducted via channels such as television, radio, the Internet, magazines and billboards.

    One third of countries still allow tobacco advertising on television and half still allow it in

    print and on billboards9. According to the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, a worldwide

    school-based study of 13-15-year-olds, 56.5% of students reported that they had seen

    advertisements for cigarettes on billboards in the previous month and nearly five in 10

    students had seen tobacco advertisements in newspapers or magazines. These

    percentages were highest in the Americas and Western Pacific regions10.

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    b. Indirect advertising

    A large proportion of tobacco marketing is in the more subtle form of indirect

    advertising. The industry often relies on this type of advertising in countries that ban

    direct advertising of tobacco products. Indirect tobacco advertising does not openly

    urge consumers to use a tobacco product, such as a particular brand of cigarettes.

    Instead, it uses brand names, corporate names, trademarks, emblems or other

    distinctive features of tobacco products in a wide variety of settings and goods to

    catch consumers’ attention without naming the product explicitly. Indirect

    advertising creates a positive image of a tobacco product that consumers see while

    watching a movie, attending a concert or sporting event or shopping for clothes.

    Indirect advertising includes “brand stretching,” where tobacco brand names are used on

    other products such as T-shirts, hats and backpacks. Young people with T-shirts and

    backpacks with tobacco logos become walking billboards, which allows tobacco

    companies to circumvent advertising restrictions11. Young people who wear clothing and

    accessories displaying cigarette names and logos are four times more likely to smoke than

    children who do not12. According to the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, almost two in 10

    students reported that they had an item with a cigarette brand logo on it10.

    Another common form of indirect advertising is product placement in entertainment

    media, such as movies. This may take the form of an actor smoking a particular brand, or a

    tobacco billboard in the background of a major scene. Placement fees paid by tobacco

    companies are lucrative for the entertainment industry13. Unbranded images of smoking in

    movies are also an increasing cause for concern; tobacco use is on the rise in films made in

    the USA14 and in India, the world’s largest film industry. Longitudinal surveys demonstrate

    a clear dose-response relationship between exposure to smoking in movies and an increase

    in the likelihood of adolescents starting to smoke. Studies also show that adolescents who

    have a favourite film actor who smokes are more drawn to smoking.

    c. Sponsorship

    Sponsorship of sports, entertainment and cultural events is another widespread form of

    indirect advertising that promotes tobacco use as socially acceptable and tobacco

    companies as legitimate members of the community. Sponsorship of racing, music and arts

    festivals not only promotes brand and company awareness, but also portrays tobacco

    companies as good corporate citizens and associates tobacco products with healthy, active

    pursuits15. According to the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, nearly 80% of students saw

    advertisements for cigarettes at sporting and other events16.

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    “We're in the cigarette business. We're not in the sportsbusiness. We use sports as an avenue for advertising ourproducts… We can go into an area where we're marketingan event, measure sales during the event and measuresales after the event, and see an increase in sales.17”

    R.J. Reynolds, 1989

    d. Public Relations

    A particularly insidious form of tobacco marketing is corporate social responsibility

    programmes by tobacco companies, which promote donations and sponsorship of positive

    social causes – such as education, environmental protection or public safety – using a

    corporate name. This is especially popular in countries where direct advertising and tobacco

    brand sponsorship are banned. Corporate social responsibility programmes often provide

    grants and scholarships for college students, as well as contributing to the arts, including

    museums, dance troupes, theatres and educational institutions. Organizations, programmes

    and events that represent or serve youth are also recipients of donations from tobacco

    companies. While attempting to present a socially responsible face to the world, tobacco

    companies continue handing out free cigarettes to children; one in 10 high school students

    have received free tobacco samples from tobacco industry representatives18.

    The tobacco industry continues to market its products to young people, while at the same

    time pretending to protect them from tobacco use. Nearly every major tobacco company has

    developed and promoted its own brand of ineffective youth-smoking prevention programme

    as a way to boost its image. Yet none of these programmes address the tobacco industry’s

    role in encouraging youth smoking19,20. Moreover, many of these programmes have been

    shown actually to increase youth smoking. By portraying smoking as an adult activity

    forbidden to youth, these programmes increase the appeal of cigarettes for adolescents. They

    also steer public and government attention away from proven, effective solutions to stop

    young people from using tobacco21.

    “…If we are to maximize growth in the long term in thedeveloping countries, we must strive to neutralizeanti-smoking pressure by being perceived as … behavingresponsibly in the light of the overwhelming viewregarding the health effects of smoking.22”

    British American Tobacco Corp., 1980

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    “Over the past dozen or so years we have faced morethan 1,000 public smoking bills and have defeated morethan 90 percent of them23.”

    Tobacco Institute (undated)

    e. Public Affairs

    The tobacco industry is globally aggressive in public affairs and lobbying in order to build a

    critical mass of support, influence decision-makers and defeat efforts to regulate tobacco.

    Tobacco companies have organized conferences targeting media professionals to tilt

    regional journalists’ opinions in the industry’s favour. Many companies have developed joint

    media plans to respond to health concerns about tobacco. They have also organized

    “junkets” by journalists to tobacco companies’ headquarters19. Tobacco industry lobbyists

    and supporters often push false anti-government claims that tobacco control legislation is

    the beginning of harsh and restrictive laws that violate basic rights. Tobacco industry

    arguments soon find their way into popular debate.

    2. PRODUCT DESIGN

    Ingredients and additives play an important role in influencing young people to start

    smoking or to continue smoking. The tobacco industry has a long history of manipulating

    ingredients in order to increase use and dependence. Both the appeal and addictiveness

    are manipulated: Smoke can be rendered either strong-tasting or smooth when inhaling,

    flavored with exotic or sweet tastes, or marketed as low tar and nicotine products. Many

    smokers believe flavoured tobacco products are less toxic than unflavoured tobacco and

    that brands advertised as “light” are actually safer.

    Packaging goes far beyond the regular use of wrapping to protect the product. Packs are

    transformed into popular brand icons. Brands become very important to young people –

    both smokers and potential smokers -- in portraying an image, such as making a chic

    fashion statement or being tough and cool24. In the same way as a brand or logo, tobacco

    product packs have a specific appearance which can be appealing to youth, such as

    attractive colorful packs for flavored cigarettes. Recent reports describe the use of metal

    cigarette and smokeless tobacco cases with fancy colors and designs to promote new

    brands25, and even cigarette packets designed to look like miniature digital cameras26.

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    3. PLACE

    The tobacco industry has a sophisticated system of distribution – from grocery stores to

    outdoor vending machines and even video rental shops – making tobacco products readily

    available in a variety of venues throughout the world.

    Tobacco products are sold and made accessible to youth in a variety of legal and illegal

    ways. Some countries still have no minimum age restrictions. However, even in countries

    with a minimum age for the purchase of tobacco, illegal retail sales are common. The

    situation is further complicated in many developing countries by the widespread sale of

    tobacco products by unlicensed street vendors. Unregulated street selling is also used to

    distribute smuggled cigarettes27.

    In some retail stores, tobacco products are offered in self-service displays, allowing easy

    access by young people. Vending machines make tobacco very accessible to young people

    because they are weakly regulated and frequently located close to schools, often being

    placed next to vending machines selling candy and soft drinks.

    The Internet is increasingly used as a tobacco distribution and marketing tool28. Underage

    youth can easily purchase cigarettes online29. In addition to unrestricted sales to young

    people, the Internet has also become an avenue for unregulated marketing to youth.

    4. PRICE

    A basic law of economics states that as the price of a commodity rises, demand for that

    product will fall27. This principle also applies to tobacco products. Many studies show that

    an increase in price decreases consumption, and that raising tobacco taxes and prices is

    one of the most effective policies to reduce use. It is estimated that youth are three times

    as price-sensitive as adults when it comes to tobacco purchases. Reasons for this include

    the fact that young smokers have lower addiction levels since they have used tobacco for

    a shorter period of time, and the fact that they have lower purchasing power than adults28.

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    The tobacco industry strongly opposes legislation that raises taxes; tobacco companies and

    their proxies lobby vigorously around the world to thwart tax increases. Consequently, the

    cost of tobacco is very low in many countries. But lobbying against tax increases is not the

    only way the tobacco industry keeps prices low. Marketing strategies include coupons for

    free or discounted cigarettes sent through the mail, two-for-one product promotions and

    sweepstake incentives. Internal industry documents show that young adults are the target

    of promotional cigarette offers. Another way tobacco companies entice young people with

    lower prices is by selling smaller packs containing, for example, only five or ten cigarettes

    rather than the usual 20.

    Distributing free cigarettes in promotion campaigns is another way the tobacco

    industry uses price as a marketing tool. Free samples are often distributed at places

    where there are a lot of people – particularly young people – such as street corners,

    shopping malls, festivals and concerts.

    “Defendants recognize that youth and young adults aremore responsive to increases in cigarette and othertobacco prices, and will not try smoking or continue tosmoke if cigarette prices rise.”

    U.S. v. Philip Morris

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    “Defendants’ marketing activities are intended to bringnew, young, and hopefully long-lived smokers into themarket in order to replace those who die (largely fromtobacco-caused illnesses) or quit ...Defendants used their knowledge of young people tocreate highly sophisticated and appealing marketingcampaigns targeted to lure them into starting smoking andlater becoming nicotine addicts.”

    United States of America v. Philip Morris

    1. INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF TOBACCO USE

    WHY ARE TOBACCO ADVERTISING, PROMOTIONAND SPONSORSHIP A THREAT TO YOUNG PEOPLE?

    The tobacco industry and its supporters deny that tobacco promotion entices young

    people to use tobacco. In fact, many surveys on smoking and awareness of tobacco

    advertising among young people consistently show that the more familiar and appreciative

    they are of tobacco advertising, the more likely they are to smoke or to say they intend to

    smoke. The causal link between advertising, sponsorship and promotion and smoking

    among young people begins before youths take their first puff31. Young people who have

    never smoked are more likely to become future smokers if they’re receptive to tobacco

    advertising, promotion and sponsorship.

    A recent study by the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that exposure to tobacco

    promotion causes children to initiate tobacco use32. A Cochrane Review of nine

    longitudinal studies concludes that “tobacco advertising and promotion increases the

    likelihood that adolescents will start to smoke”2. Other research shows a dose-response

    relationship between tobacco promotion and youth initiation of tobacco use32,33, a

    relationship that has been demonstrated among youth from various cultures and language

    backgrounds and that persists after controlling for other factors. These findings are

    consistent across income groups and whether or not peer or parental smoking is present34.

    The consistent findings lead public health experts to conclude that tobacco advertising,

    promotion and sponsorship increase the likelihood that young people will start to smoke.

    TOBACCO ADVERTISING, PROMOTION AND SPONSORSHIP:

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    2. NORMALIZE TOBACCO USE

    Another serious problem that threatens youth is that widespread advertising,

    promotion and sponsorship “normalize” tobacco, making it seem just like any other

    consumer product in the marketplace. Yet it is the only consumer product that kills

    half of all people who use it as directed.

    But because the tobacco industry spends tens of billions of dollars depicting tobacco as a

    desirable consumer product, it is difficult for people to understand its enormous dangers.

    Instead of cancer, heart disease and other illnesses, tobacco is falsely associated with

    desirable qualities such as youth, energy, glamour and sex appeal9. To prevent the

    premature deaths of millions of young people around the world, it is essential to break the

    ubiquitous and positive associations between tobacco use and many desirable qualities.

    3. ENDANGER HEALTH

    Among young people, the short-term health consequences of smoking include respiratory

    effects, addiction to nicotine and the associated risk of other drug use. Long-term health

    consequences of youth smoking result from the fact that most young people who smoke

    regularly continue to smoke throughout adulthood. In adults, cigarette smoking causes

    cancer, heart disease and stroke. Studies have shown that early signs of these diseases can

    be found in adolescents who smoke4.

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    WHY DO WE NEED A COMPREHENSIVE BAN ONADVERTISING, PROMOTION AND SPONSORSHIP?

    A comprehensive ban is necessary because the tobacco industry has shown that it

    can easily circumvent partial bans. Without a comprehensive ban, young people will

    not be protected from tobacco marketing, as tobacco companies will simply transfer

    expenditure from one marketing strategy to another. Since the industry’s viability

    depends on extending its marketing net to capture more and more of the world’s

    young people, tobacco companies will find a way to market their products unless

    they are no longer permitted to do so.

    Bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship lead to a decline in awareness of

    tobacco marketing among young people. Following implementation of the Tobacco

    Advertising and Promotion Act in the United Kingdom in 2003, which banned all

    tobacco advertising, the awareness of tobacco marketing among British children

    aged 11-16 declined, and susceptibility to beginning tobacco use was expected to

    follow suit35. Other studies show reductions in tobacco use, particularly among

    young people, following bans on advertisements9,34. A complete ban on tobacco

    advertising, promotion and sponsorship is a powerful tool to protect young people

    and curb the tobacco epidemic.

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    IS THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S YOUTHPARTICULARLY AT RISK?WHAT ABOUT YOUNG WOMEN AND GIRLS?

    More than 80% of the world’s 1.8 billion young people aged 10-24 live in developing

    countries, where they are aggressively targeted by the global tobacco industry. Four

    out of five teenagers living in developing countries say they have recently seen pro-

    tobacco advertising.

    The Global Youth Tobacco Survey36 shows that in Afghanistan 65% of teens had seen

    pro-tobacco billboards in the past 30 days, 44% in Bangladesh, 78% in the Ukraine

    and 46% in China. Studies from countries ranging from Ecuador to Turkey to

    Singapore confirm that young people are subject to a wide range of advertising,

    promotion and sponsorship by the tobacco industry.

    The global tobacco industry now exploits the developing world by using the same

    marketing and lobbying tactics perfected – and often outlawed – in the developed

    world. For example, in the developing countries, the industry now targets women and

    teens to use tobacco while pressuring governments to block marketing restrictions

    and tax increases –the same tactics it has used for decades in developed countries9.

    It is clear that smoking among girls is rising at an alarming rate. Traditionally, males

    have used tobacco much more than females. But that is changing. Recent global

    surveys show that smoking prevalence among girls is almost as high as or, in some

    cases, equal to smoking prevalence among boys. The susceptibility to begin smoking

    is similar among boys and girls who never smoked. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey

    has found that cigarette smoking is higher among girls compared with adult females.

    Carefully researched marketing strategies by the tobacco industry encourage girls and

    young women to use tobacco while seeking to weaken cultural opposition in countries

    where women have traditionally not used tobacco. The tobacco industry targets women

    through advertisements showing smoking associated with independence, stylishness,

    weight control, sophistication, power and a fun-loving spirit18.

    There are also specific “female” brands, supported by marketing campaigns and imagery

    tailored to adult and young females. Product development and promotion aimed at girls

    and women include “light” and “slim” cigarettes37. Descriptors like “light”, “mild” or “low-

    tar” are often specifically targeted at women. Half of all women smokers in the European

    Union smoke “light” cigarettes, as opposed to 33% of male smokers37.

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    Tobacco-industry sponsorship is also tailored to female audiences. Examples include

    the sponsorship of fashion shows, talent contests and concerts. The tobacco industry

    also uses cigarette product placement in television shows and movies38 that are

    aimed at female audiences.

    “… [W]e are naturally more interested to learn how youplan to target the emerging young adult female smokersrather than the older female smokers.39 ”

    Philip Morris Asia, 1989.

    Inter-Office Correspondence

    The rate of women beginning and continuing to smoke will not peak until well into this

    century. Globally, male rates have peaked and stabilized. This fact gives no comfort. Male

    rates of smoking are very high, particularly in high-population countries in the early stages

    of the tobacco epidemic that have yet to suffer the tidal wave of tobacco-related disease

    and death that is inevitably coming their way. Rising rates of smoking among young

    females around the world will eventually cause a second wave. However, if governments

    implement a comprehensive ban on advertising, promotion and sponsorship, the tide can

    be turned to minimize the devastation of the tobacco epidemic.

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    IS A COMPREHENSIVE ADVERTISING BAN THE ONLYWAY TO PROTECT YOUTH FROM TOBACCO USE?

    Comprehensive bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship will go a long way

    towards protecting young people from the devastating consequences of tobacco use.

    However, in order to protect young people to the greatest extent possible, they must be

    implemented as part of a broader strategy.

    In recent years, a critical global initiative has emerged that reflects a growing worldwide

    consensus that the tobacco epidemic must be stopped and that we have the means to do

    so. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control policies are being embraced by

    governments, civil society and philanthropic institutions to break through the tobacco

    marketing net with a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and

    sponsorship as well as other critical measures.

    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is one of the United Nations’ most

    widely embraced treaties – and the world’s first against tobacco. It is an evidence-based

    treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health. To expand the

    fight against the tobacco epidemic, and implement the Framework Convention standards,

    WHO introduced the MPOWER package of six effective policies. Each of these policies

    directly helps young people remain tobacco-free or quit using tobacco:

    • Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies

    • Protect people from tobacco smoke

    • Offer help to quit tobacco use

    • Warn about the dangers of tobacco

    • Enforce bans on tobacco advertising,

    promotion and sponsorship

    • Raise taxes on tobacco

    Together, the WHO Framework Convention and the MPOWER package can create a

    safety net to protect young people from the devastating harms of tobacco.

    Governments are urged to take immediate actions to implement these measures in

    order to reverse this entirely preventable epidemic.

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