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The tobacco business is a global enterprise that has caused a worldwide public health crisis — by the year 2020 an estimated 8.4 million people will succumb annually to tobacco-related diseases. This week's Sounding Board article discusses the ongoing response of the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization to this crisis — to draft and adopt an international treaty called the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which aims to establish worldwide standards for tobacco control.
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