LUCKNOW: A call was made to implement Article 5.3 of the global tobacco treaty to stop tobacco industry interference in public health policy at the advocacy training workshop conducted by UP State and Lucknow District Tobacco Control Cells with Vote For Health campaign in Balrampur Hospital, Lucknow on 7 September 2013. The Global Tobacco Treaty which has also been ratified by India along with 176 other countries, (formally called Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - FCTC) has Article 5.3, preamble of which states that there is a direct fundamental and irreconcilable conflict of interest between tobacco industry and public health policy.
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