Joint Submission | 39 Organizations Name on UN Human Rights Council – ASH > Motion on Smoking & Well being

• Addressing the affect on the precise to well being of the tobacco epidemic, together with cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and different merchandise, which causes eight million preventable deaths yearly and prices the worldwide financial system as much as two % of GDP, creating a considerable barrier to financial and human growth;

• Together with entry to cessation assist as an important a part of the dialogue on Common Well being Protection;

• Addressing tobacco’s (particularly cigarette filters or butts) destructive affect on the surroundings, together with on the upcoming Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop a world legally binding instrument on plastic air pollution;

• Together with tobacco within the Fourth Excessive-level Assembly of the UN Normal Meeting on the prevention and management of NCDs and the promotion of psychological well being and wellbeing (HLM4)

• Inviting the Particular Rapporteur, whereas contemplating the numerous methods in direction of the total realization of the precise of everybody to the enjoyment of the best attainable customary of bodily and psychological well being, to pay explicit consideration to the progress being made in direction of implementation of Goal 3.a of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement and the duty of States to deal with human rights implications over the entire life-cycle of tobacco rising, manufacturing, advertising and marketing, distribution, consumption and publish consumption;

• Inviting the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee engaged within the growth of a complete examine on the implications of plastic air pollution for the total enjoyment of human rights, based mostly on a complete method that addresses the total life cycle of plastic, that shall be introduced to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-sixth session to deal with the affect of tobacco merchandise and cigarette filters when growing the report ;

• Calling upon states, when reporting on the implementation of the precise to well being beneath human rights treaties, to supply data on profitable measures taken to scale back tobacco use in addition to challenges confronted in implementing the FCTC and lowering the hurt brought on by tobacco that have an effect on that proper; and

• Inviting States to incorporate the standing of tobacco management efforts, each successes and failures, and the affect of these efforts on the precise to well being, when reporting throughout their Common Periodic Evaluate.