Registration for the webinar on the tobacco industry's responsibility in the face of COVID-19

On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, at 2:30 p.m. (Paris time), a webinar on the issue of the tobacco industry's responsibility in its response to the coronavirus epidemic will be held. This event is organized in partnership with the secretariat of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC), and Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP).

This webinar, in English, will address two themes in particular: how governments can use treaties to reduce the costs associated with smoking and possible solutions to finance a solution to the pandemic.

The webinar will benefit from the participation of:

• Mary Assunta, Coordination Platform, FCTC Resource Centre for Article 5.3[1][2];
• Douglas Bettcher, WHO Director of Noncommunicable Diseases;
• Yoni Dekker, in charge of the fight against illicit trade in tobacco products and the implementation of the protocol at the FCTC secretariat;
• Davi Bressler, from the Attorney General's Office of the Federal Republic of Brazil;
• Chris Bostic, from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), USA;
• Yussuf Saloojee, tobacco control expert in South Africa;
• Deborah Sy, of the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC);
• Patricia Lambert, director of the International Legal Consortium, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK);
• Michel Legendre, Associate Director of the Corporate Accountability organization on Corporate Responsibility.

To register, please click on this link.

[1] https://www.generationsanstabac.org/application-de-la-cclat-par-les-parties/

[2] Article 5.3 of the FCTC concerns the protection of public policies from tobacco industry interference.