Editor’s Note: See, Smoking out illicit trade: How some policies intended to limit smoking drive illegal trade.
From: Washington Examiner
Taxpayer-funded UN anti-tobacco convention closes out the press
by Kevin Mooney
Calling all media with an interest in healthcare policy, international relations and government accountability: The taxpayer-funded World Health Organization is holding a meeting in New Delhi next week that could have significant public policy ramifications. But you’re not invited.
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It all comes back to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a WHO treaty created under its United Nations authorization. By pushing for excessive levels of taxation and burdensome regulations, the FCTC’s efforts could very well give rise to organized criminal activity just as prohibition against alcohol did in the United States.
