{"content":"<div class=\"ffb-id-13tnjle2 fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before the Eighth European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECToH) in 2020, countries should:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implement at least the six World Bank priority measures; a comprehensive tobacco control policy is an obligation under Article 4 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).<\/li>\n<li>Spend a minimum of &euro;2 per capita per year on tobacco control.<\/li>\n<li>Address tobacco industry interference in public health policy making, in accordance with the guidelines on Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC.<\/li>\n<li>Implement the FCTC Article 6 guidelines on tobacco taxation and adopt a new EU tax directive in 2018, which should result in significant tax increases and smaller tax differences between cigarettes and hand rolled tobacco.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce comprehensive smokefree legislation in line with the FCTC Article 8 guidelines, including a ban on smoking in private cars when minors are present.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce standardised\/plain packaging.<\/li>\n<li>Ban the display of tobacco products at the point of sale.<\/li>\n<li>Accelerate the implementation of Article 14 of the WHO FCTC and its guidelines on tobacco cessation support.<\/li>\n<li>Ratify the WHO FCTC protocol to eliminate the illicit trade in tobacco products and adopt tracking and tracing standards in line with the WHO FCTC Illicit Trade protocol in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Invest in research to monitor and measure the effect of tobacco control policies in line with Article 20 of the WHO FCTC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>","hash":"3756cfecb7724510c327340b592f6cad","css":"","js":""}