![]() In an internal document, the company says it supported the enactment of the treaty. Reuters has found that Philip Morris International is running a secretive campaign to block or weaken treaty provisions that save millions of lives by curbing tobacco use. The object of these clandestine activities: the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, or FCTC, a treaty aimed at reducing smoking globally. ![]() Philip Morris International would soon be holding secret meetings with delegates from the government of Vietnam and other treaty members. Unknown to treaty organizers, they were staying at a hotel an hour from the convention center, working from an operations room there. In fact, executives from the largest publicly traded tobacco firm had flown in from around the world to New Delhi for the anti-tobacco meeting. A Philip Morris representative later told Reuters its employees didn’t turn up because the company knew it wasn’t welcome. There was a big name missing from the group: Philip Morris International Inc. But still, among those lined up hoping to get in were executives from Japan Tobacco International and British American Tobacco Plc. They were waiting for credentials to enter the World Health Organization’s global tobacco treaty conference, one designed to curb smoking and combat the influence of the cigarette industry. ![]() NEW DELHI/LAUSANNE, Switzerland – A group of cigarette company executives stood in the lobby of a drab convention center near New Delhi last November. ![]()
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