PETITION #22
US Government Should Sign World Tobacco Treaty
Tobacco
use already kills close to five million people a year around the world, and that number is
projected to increase to 10 million a year by the year 2020, with 70 percent of those
deaths in developing countries.
This is a horrible tragedy that a global tobacco control treaty can help to reduce if it
is widely adopted and effectively implemented by the global community.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently finished working on the Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), a groundbreaking treaty to battle the harm and
death Big Tobacco's products cause around the world. The U.S. announced that they will no
longer stand in the way of the treaty, but this is not good enough! We must make the
U.S. Government sign this plan! Each country will have to individually ratify this
treaty.
The United States should be a leader in improving health and saving lives around the
world. Please sign this petition to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy
Thompson to urge our government to stand up for American families and sign the FCTC.
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