

July 5, 2009 - United States is now ready to ratify the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) public health treaty.
With legislation to strengthen tobacco regulation now signed into law, public health groups are pushing for the Senate to ratify a treaty on tobacco control that has languished for five years.
Though the United States signed the treaty in May 2004, President George W. Bush never submitted it for approval by the Senate, the final step in the process.
The tobacco treaty took effect for the nations that ratified it in February 2005.

To date, more than 160 countries have ratified the FCTC. It's time for the USA to take an active role.
Reference: Health groups back tobacco treaty by James R. Carroll, Louisville Courier-Journal, 7/3/2009.
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