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Overview
COP is the place international tobacco coverage is negotiated, written, and monitored and the place consensus is achieved on how you can sort out the tobacco trade and advance well being.
In 2005, the WHO Framework Conference on Tobacco Management (FCTC) entered into power, turning into a legally binding treaty that has now been joined by greater than 180 international locations. Representing over 90% of the world’s inhabitants, the FCTC is likely one of the most generally embraced treaties in historical past. Events to the FCTC meet at COP each two years. It is sort of a international parliament for tobacco coverage.
The negotiations of the FCTC are what normalized smoke-free insurance policies world wide, the banning of tobacco promoting, the introduction of plain packaging of tobacco merchandise, and the necessity to defend public well being insurance policies from tobacco trade interference.
FCTC COP11 Priorities | November 17 – 22, 2025
International locations which have joined the FCTC (i.e. Events) have the chance to set in movement groundbreaking public well being progress by key selections.
The total agenda and foremost paperwork can be found right here>
At COP11, ASH is asking for concrete steps towards the tobacco endgame—insurance policies that fast-track the tip of the tobacco epidemic and safeguard well being and the surroundings:
Ahead-looking tobacco management measures (in relation to Article 2.1)
It will cowl what advocates name “tobacco endgame” insurance policies. A COP Skilled Group printed a report in September 2025 with a menu of coverage choices for COP11 to contemplate to speed up the tip of the tobacco epidemic, like gross sales bans, nicotine discount, and rising age to buy restrictions. These are insurance policies that transcend the minimal obligations within the FCTC.
Legal responsibility (Article 19)
The COP will focus on the usage of litigation – together with legal legal responsibility – towards the tobacco trade as a software advance public well being.
Safety of the surroundings and the well being of individuals (Article 18)
After the failure of the latest spherical of negotiations for the UN treaty to finish plastic air pollution, the COP will think about a call urging Events to ban cigarette filters and different tobacco product waste.
Human Rights
One in every of ASH’s key priorities is to make sure that human rights norms and language are built-in all through the COP and in COP Selections, furthering the Resolution from COP 10.
Learn extra in BMJ Tobacco Management: Tobacco management advocates as human rights defenders: a name for recognition
*Coverage papers and extra data will probably be added to this webpage as they turns into out there.
