Tobacco Control Investment Cases

Overview

Side event:

Innovative Financing Mechanisms to Strengthen WHO FCTC Implementation

Parties continue to identify the lack of adequate and sustainable funding as a major barrier in implementing the WHO FCTC. This event will share good practices from Parties that are using Articles 6 and 26 to enhance implementation of the WHO FCTC by collecting a surcharge tax on tobacco products and using the revenues to fund tobacco control. The session covered ways forward to sustainably finance WHO FCTC implementation. Triple win: more tax revenues, less tobacco use, additional funds for tobacco control.