The World Health Organisation proposed tougher controls on tobacco industry representation in delegations from 180 countries to the November plenary session of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Reuters said.

Countries most likely to be affected are ones where the tobacco business is a state monopoly, as in China and Vietnam, the news agency said. Four members of China’s State Tobacco Monopoly Administration were part of that country’s 18-member delegation at the last FCTC plenary two years ago in Moscow, Reuters said. Vietnam included two representatives from the Vietnam Tobacco Association in their eight-person delegation at that meeting.
FCTC delegates will meet in India for the seventh Congress of the Parties on 7-12 Nov.