A medical doctor examines a child at a riverside settlement in northern Ecuador. Flickr. Some rights reserved.
In recent years, the most successful public policies regulating industrial products harmful to health have been those related to the control of tobacco, thanks to the drawing up, implementation and overall effectiveness of the national laws developing the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
The successful impact of these policies is such that its effects are quite evident in terms of decreasing sales and consumption of tobacco products, especially conventional cigarettes, in almost every country in the world. Some countries can even measure some decline in the incidence and mortality rate of some of the tobacco-related disorders.
