20 Years of the WHO FCTC: It’s Time to Make Big Tobacco Pay

20 Years of the WHO FCTC: It’s Time to Make Big Tobacco Pay

The world took a historic step in the fight against tobacco when the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) came into force—the first legally binding global health treaty of its kind. Two decades later, it stands as one of the most widely ratified international agreements, with 183 Parties bound by law …

Gambling industry copies Big Tobacco’s playbook to downplay harms and avoid regulation, study warns

Gambling harms are an “industrial epidemic driven by commercial practices,” researchers say. The gambling industry uses the same tactics as the tobacco industry to downplay harms and influence public opinion, science, and policy for the sake of profits over public health, according to a new study published this month [February 2025] in The BMJ. With this week [Feb. 25, 2025] marking the 20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco…

The global economy is increasingly influenced by the money spent on entertainment, as rising living standards in society force people to direct a significant portion of their personal budgets to services that provide entertainment in their free time. In fact, the possibility of doing so also […]