NEW YORK/NEW DELHI (Nov 3): The leadership of a World Health Organization (WHO) treaty aimed at controlling tobacco could be about to get tougher with the global tobacco industry. At the last WHO FCTC conference, in Moscow in 2014, China's 18-person delegation had four members from the "State Tobacco Monopoly Administration". The global tobacco industry is estimated to be worth nearly US$800 billion this year. The International Tobacco Growers Association, a nonprofit group partly funded by big international cigarette companies, said the proposal was "beyond the wildest imagination". "The tobacco industry has really forced parties and the secretariat into a corner," he said in an interview.

Source: The Edge Markets November 03, 2016 09:31 UTC