Among other features, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control would
require countries to regulate tobacco advertising, forbid its sale to
children, raise taxes on tobacco to keep it out of children's hands and
require warning labels on tobacco products. The 191 members of the World
Health Organization, which drafted the treaty, are expected to ratify it by
May 2003, officials say.
The question of advertising has been the hottest item of the framework,
especially here in Cambodia, and it has reopened an old debate on whether or
not smoking has a place in society.
