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TANTIE TALK:
Well yuh ole Tants jes had was to drop dis one on allyuh...is long time now I want to know when dey go stop de tobacco advertising, every single adult
who smoking know all dey need to know 'bout cigarettes...is when last you know dat dey did make a "new and improved version"? Is de same 'filthy
weed' dat de Europeans did find when dey land in de 'New World'...any such 'improvements' dat was made wasn't to benefit de
smokers I sure!
I glad to see de W.H.O. doing something, but even before dey get dey act together, we here in T&T need to remove the name WITCO from in de front of
WE Sports Hall of Fame...after all even FIFA did ban smoking in de World Cup.
The New York Times
July 22, 2002
Draft of W.H.O. Treaty Would Ban Cigarette Ads
By ELIZABETH OLSON
GENEVA, July 21 - Negotiators have drawn up a draft of an international treaty that would phase in bans on cigarette advertising and sports
sponsorships by tobacco companies as part of the World Health Organization's campaign to curb smoking worldwide.
The United Nations agency's 191 member nations have been negotiating for two years to arrive at the anti-tobacco pact by a May 2003 deadline, with
talks mired over whether to ban advertising and promotion of cigarettes globally. The health agency says tobacco use is a serious threat to global
health, with more than 4 million people dying from smoking-related diseases each year.
The 22-page text proposes the gradual elimination of what the W.H.O. and many nations view as the pernicious use of advertising and sponsorships in
the sports world, particularly in soccer and auto racing, but sets no timetable to achieve that goal. It also calls for eventual prohibitions on
the duty-free sale of tobacco and for measures to combat cigarette smuggling.
"The ultimate objective is to eliminate the damage caused to public health by the consumption of tobacco," said Luis Felipe de Seixas Correa, Brazil's
ambassador in Geneva and chairman of the talks, who said the draft text, completed last week, balanced competing views.
But antismoking groups dismissed the draft as too weak. The text "does so little that it protects the tobacco industry interests," said Nicole
Dueffert, spokeswoman for the American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Antismoking campaigners have charged that the Bush administration has worked to undermine some of the toughest proposals, particularly concerning
the ban on cigarette advertising. The United States has opposed any across-the-board ban on grounds that it would violate American free speech
guarantees.
The 15-nation European Union - except for Germany, which argued for less stringent provisions - favors global restrictions on all forms of
advertising and promotion of tobacco products. African nations have also come out strongly in favor of strict advertising provisions. But Japan, a
cigarette exporter, has opposed them.
The draft would require all nations that sign and ratify the treaty to draw up legislation "for preventing and reducing tobacco consumption, nicotine
addiction and exposure to tobacco smoke." Subsidies for tobacco farming and manufacturing would be phased out, and eventually eliminated. Nations would
also be required to show that such terms as "mild" or "low tar" on cigarette packs were not creating an impression that the products are less
harmful.
On a less contentious topic, countries would commit themselves to combat cigarette smuggling, a provision supported by both Europeans and American
negotiators.
Tobacco companies, which have been barred from attending the negotiating sessions, oppose flat-out bans on advertising, though they have agreed not
to direct ads at young people. The W.H.O. has charged that the tobacco giants have been working behind the scenes to weaken the negotiating
process, and has urged countries to file lawsuits in their own courts to recoup damage caused by smoking and to change the behavior of tobacco
multinationals.
The agency has also enlisted sports figures and organizations to help push tobacco advertising out of sports, advertising that the W.H.O. believes is
an important means of attracting young people to take up cigarette smoking.
The next meeting of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is set for October. After the treaty is adopted, it will go into effect when it has
been ratified by 30 governments.
The W.H.O. estimates that the number of tobacco-related deaths will reach 10 million annually by 2030.
Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company
Back Chat Issue 29
Touche with your comments.
Interesting to read from afar in the olde mother country, said with thebest
BRITISH/English accent of course.
I do sometimes wonder if the Trini brains went backwards withRepublicanism.
Independence was togetherness what we have now requiresflushing away and fast.
As you'd say, Me here? Ah safe boy, from all dat...an' what on my back, is me
own. De flies dem go always lan' and lay eggs onde bes' mess!
Incidentally, are you starting a new party to contest any election?
//UK
Allyuh keep up de good wok peeps...it's always nice to hear de latest ting
going on in Trinidad and Tobago.
//UK
Well, well, well Tantie!!
Ah ka believe that Trini so dam stupid!! Lah me tell you that as a
Trinie living abroad for years, all a Trini-dom looking bad, bad, bad.
Trini gone from being considered as smart people to being looked at as fools!
Believe it! I have some friends here that thing all of we gon mad or
dumb. They say to much party and not enough parliament! These
people know de place from the old days. They scratching dey head. It ah
de place they visited years ago! Shame! Well Tantie! The
only advice I can give is, every one have to see themselves as Trini not as
some half baked remnant of some racial group none of whom care about Trinies
any way!
//Canada
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