We encourage you to use them or produce your own. Let us know if we can be of any further help. There are 130 speaking slots, many of which are still available. The Administration will be accepting written comments until March 31st. A Framework Convention is a type of multilateral treaty, which allows states to proceed incrementally by establishing first a general framework followed by specific protocols.
Tobacco is truly a global problem.
WHO estimates that each year about 4 million people die from tobacco-related illness. In fact, more people are expected to die from tobacco-related illness over the next 30 years than from AIDS, tuberculosis, automobile accidents, maternal mortality, homicide and suicide combined. Just as infectious diseases know no political boundaries, leaving individual countries incapable of effectively containing them, the tobacco epidemic also requires international cooperation if it is to be controlled. Cigarette smuggling across national borders. The increased liberalization of trade and investment, which has provided tobacco, companies the opportunity to expand their operations.