WHO / TOBACCO ILLEGAL TRADE

An international protocol aimed at eliminating the illicit trade of tobacco products has reached the required threshold to enter into force with the ratification of the United Kingdom (UK). WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:10
• Production Date: 28 June 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: TOBACCO CONTROL
• MAMS Id: 2189016
• Parent Id: 2189016
• Alternate Title: unifeed180628g

Description

STORY: WHO / TOBACCO ILLEGAL TRADE
TRT: 2:10
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 28 JUNE 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Aerial shot, World Health Organization Headquarters exterior

28 JUNE 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, da Costa e Silva speaking to interviewer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat:
“Illicit trade is a big problem because it makes tobacco products available everywhere and they are sold very cheaply and therefore attracting children and low social economical population, so apart from that it reduces governments as they are not taxed as they should be.”
4. Wide shot, da Costa e Silva being interviewed
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat:
“The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade on Tobacco Products is about to enter into force and this will happen on the 25th of September. Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control are invited to join the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade on Tobacco Products. It establishes international cooperation, it addresses measures such as global tracking and tracing systems, licensing systems.”
6. Wide shot, da Costa e Silva being interviewed
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat:
“Today the 41 Parties to the Protocol should celebrate that a new era starts for them and we look forward to other parties joining the Protocol with the aim to totally eliminate elicit trade in tobacco products in the world.”
8. Wide shot, poster for Conference of the Parties to WHO FCTC (COP8)
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat:
“It brings together the health sector, tax administration, customs, police, international relations people together to address illicit trade. So it’s a cross-sectoral topic, it depends on a number of different sectors to be implemented properly and it puts health in all in policies, cross cutting the different segments of the governments.”
10. Wide shot, da Costa e Silva being interviewed

Storyline

An international protocol aimed at eliminating the illicit trade of tobacco products has reached the required threshold to enter into force with the ratification of the United Kingdom (UK).

The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade on Tobacco Products is set to enter into force on the 25th of September after the UK deposited its instrument of ratification to the UN on Wednesday. Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat invited parties to the Convention to join the Protocol as it “establishes international cooperation, [and] it addresses measures such as global tracking and tracing systems, licensing systems.”

Da Costa e Silva said illicit trade is “a big problem because it makes tobacco products available everywhere and they are sold very cheaply and therefore attracting children and low social economical population, so apart from that it reduces governments as they are not taxed as they should be.” She stressed that the Protocol is a component to curb the tobacco epidemic by not allowing cheap unregulated products to be available everywhere.

SOUNDBITE (English) Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat:
“It brings together the health sector, tax administration, customs, police, international relations people together to address illicit trade. So, it’s a cross-sectoral topic, it depends on a number of different sectors to be implemented properly and it puts health in all in policies, cross cutting the different segments of the governments.”

The head of WHO FCTC Secretariat said the Protocol establishes measures to prevent illicit trade, to provide legal sanctions to illicit trade, and a framework of international cooperation and information sharing. She said the 41 Parties to the Protocol “should celebrate that a new era starts for them” and looked forward to other parties joining the Protocol with “the aim to totally eliminate elicit trade in tobacco products in the world.”