TAKE ACTION: Stop the Bush Administration from Destroying the FCTC!

[Anna White]

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TAKE ACTION: Stop the Bush Administration from Destroying the FCTC!
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More than 170 countries recently stood up to the Bush Administration by
supporting a strong final draft of the world's first public health
treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). This treaty
will begin to reverse the tobacco epidemic that claims 4.9 million lives
a year and set broad limits on how the deadly tobacco industry can
operate worldwide.

The next major hurdle in the FCTC process is the adoption of the treaty
by the World Health Assembly in May where Philip Morris and the Bush
Administration will fight one more time to destroy this historic treaty.
Already, the Bush Administration has indicated that it will attempt to
bully the countries who have agreed on this text to reopen the debate.
As we lead up to the adoption of the FCTC by the World Health Assembly
this May, the Bush Administration is using back door channels to derail
it. For more information, go to: http://www.infact.org/

TAKE ACTION: Send an email to Dr. Bill Steiger, Special Assistant to the
Secretary of International Affairs for the Department of Health and
Human Services!

     Click on: http://petition.globalink.org/view.php?code=stopbush

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