Last chance to sign up

The TFU signature campaign “Health Professionals for a Tobacco Free World“ is drawing to a close. 

It is now your last chance to sign up and have your organisation’s name figure on the list of signatories to be remitted to the delegates of the 5^th Conference of the Parties of the FCTC,  meeting from 12-17 November in Seoul Korea.

We are now at 43.000 signatures from 73 countries, representing more than 800 organisations world wide showing their support for a strong implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. 

Don’t miss the opportunity to show government delegates from your country that you are personally standing behind strong and effective tobacco control measures!

Please do not hesitate to inform your national and international network partners and encourage them to sign up their organisation to the TFU campaign.

A special thanks to all of you who have already signed up to the campaign!

Ireland, supporting the FCTC since 2009

On the 13th July 2009 the Irish Department of Health and Children signed the Pact and Charter and called on health professionals to publicly support the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.  
It was the first First National Body to support the campaign.


(right-left) Health Promotion Director Dr. Nazih Eldin; Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Office Health Service; Miriam Gunning, Senior HPO for Tobacco of the Health Service Executive in Ireland and Ann O'Riordan former Irish HPH Network Director).


Source: Ann ORiordan, TFU Lead and Coordinator

PRESS RELEASE - World No Tobacco Day 2012

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR A TOBACCO FREE WORLD!

Health professionals call upon policy makers world wide to protect our tobacco control policies from the lethal interference of the tobacco industry in public health matters. Tobacco industry interference in government decisions  has been recognised by the World Health Organisation as one of the greatest barriers to effectively protect people against the health threats posed by tobacco products.

On the occasion of this years’ World No Tobacco day, more than 40.000 health organisations and individual health professionals  from  60 countries have pledged their personal and organisational engagement to support strong tobacco control measures world wide.  Health Organisations have demonstrated their organisations’ commitment to implement a tobacco free policy by signing the TFU PACT. Individual Health Professionals have shown their personal engagement to help people stop tobacco consumption by signing the TFU CHARTER . Together they  support a petition in which  governments and policy makers world wide are called upon to step up  their efforts in the fight against tobacco related death and disease.

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control  sets a global framework to reduce tobacco related death and disease to prevent tobacco consumption and to protect people from the harmful effects of tobacco use in all its form. On World No Tobacco Day 2012,  175 UN countries (accounting for nearly  90% of the global population) have ratified  the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).  Health professionals can not accept that effective implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is  hindered through interference of economic players whose goal is to maximise profit through the dissemination of death and disease.

Therefore, health professionals urge Governments to take immediate action to suspend participation of representatives of the tobacco industry and related front organisations from the development, implementation and financing of public health policy measures. Furthermore, tobacco control legislation must be protected and prioritised in international trade agreements and investment laws. Health professionals world wide consider it a scandal that the tobacco industry still has the possibility to interfere with  countries’ decision making process in matters of public health. It is simply outrageous that the tobacco industry can take  Australia and Uruguay to court because of introducing better health protection measures.  All Governments, and especially those of the Netherlands, Namibia, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Panama, are called upon to immediately exclude the tobacco industry from any decision making process relating to health issues and to adopt strict transparency criteria in any consultation processes!

It is only through a concerted effort of policy makers, researchers and practitioners together that this man-made epidemic can be stopped!

The TFU campaign "Health professionals for a Tobacco Free World" is a collaborative effort of the International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) and the ENSH - Global Network of Tobacco Free Health Care Services.

Taiwan campaign support and promotion

The Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, Taiwan strongly promoted the TFU campaign in the run up to the recent TFU Tobacco Free Pre Conference, April 11th 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan.
It was held in association with the 20th International Conference of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services.

Due to this incredible effort, Taiwan had succeeded collected an amazing 35.000 signatures by 18th April 2012!
Source: Han-Ning Wei, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan