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The theme for World No Tobacco Day 2011 to be celebrated on 31 May is The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the world's foremost tobacco control instrument. The first Treaty ever negotiated under the auspices of WHO, it represents a signal achievement in the advancement of public health. In force only since 2005, it is already one of the most rapidly and widely embraced treaties in the history of the United Nations, with more than 170 Parties. An evidence-based treaty, it reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health and provides new legal dimensions for co-operation in tobacco control.
World No Tobacco Day 2011 will highlight the Treaty's overall importance, to stress Parties'
obligations under the Treaty and to promote the essential role of the Conference of the Parties and WHO in supporting countries' efforts to meet those obligations.
World No Tobacco Day 2011 campaign will focus on the following key message: that countries must fully implement the Treaty to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke. Other key messages will include:
*   The Treaty embodies the desire and commitment of scores of governments and millions of

     people to have a tobacco-free world;
*   The Parties to the Treaty should fulfil their obligation to fully implement it;
*   Individuals should encourage and help their governments to fulfil that obligation;
*   The Treaty should be duly appreciated by institutions and individuals alike as a landmark

       in the history of public health and the world's foremost tobacco control instrument;
*   WHO and the Conference of the Parties stand ready to help countries meet their

     obligations under the Treaty and its related guidelines.
The Treaty has already proved its efficacy in the fight against tobacco. Nevertheless, as the
Secretariat of the Treaty explained in its recent Reports of the Parties and Global Progress in
Implementation of the Convention: Key Findings: "...Implementation rates continue to vary
substantially between different policy measures". More must be done for the Treaty to reach its full potential, as the Parties themselves recognise.
On World No Tobacco Day 2011, and throughout the following year, WHO will urge countries to put the Treaty at the heart of their efforts to control the global epidemic of tobacco use. Information and materials will be made available increasingly in the coming months on the World No Tobacco Day page and the Regional Office is planning several related activities and more information will follow.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2011/announcement/en/index.html
Contact: Kristina Mauer-Stender, Tobacco Control Program, WHO Regional Office for Europe
E-mail: kma@euro.who.int