First practical test of the simulation game.
News
ACTA and Big Tobacco: legal crime vs. illegal crime
Big Tobacco now mimes a socially responsible business company and puts its yellowy discolored finger in the ACTA-pie. The tendency is clear: tobacco industry more and more uses international treaties to put governments under pressure.
Report on the World Conference
The World Conference on Tobacco or Health has brought many new ideas, giving renewed impetus to the work of Unfairtobacco.org. The only drawback was that the conference declaration failed to make an important statement of solidarity towards tobacco farmers.
Tobacco Watch 2012: Monitoring Countries’ Performance on the Global Treaty
Report of the Framework Convention Alliance on the implementation of the FCTC.
Poverty: the high price of tobacco in Malawi
Tobacco production causes poverty in Malawi. This was the subject of today’s presentation by Laura Graen, our delegate to the WCTOH 2012 in Singapore.
Smells like American Spirit
Video recommendation: “Sex, Lies and Cigarettes”
Double Standards: Big Tobacco in Asia
Unfairtobacco.org published a new study on the tobacco sector in Asian countries.
International Women’s Day: tobacco and gender
What role does gender play when it comes to the consumption and control of tobacco? How is gender treated in both the tobacco industry and those who oppose its production and consumption?
Recommendation: “Cigarettes’ lessons for climate change”
Article that compares the discourse on climate change to the debate on tobacco control.
Alternatives to tobacco farming: meeting in Geneva
Unfairtobacco.org’s Laura Graen attended the third meeting of the WHO’s working group on sustainable alternatives to tobacco growing. Summing up her overall impression, she states: “What came out in the recommendation paper developed in the end is vague”.