U.S. must take tobacco out of global trade talks
Tobacco companies continue to aggressively market their deadly products across the country and around the world, through insidious ad campaigns that target communities of color, low-income communities and the LGBTQ community. And they have found a new arena to exploit their deadly products: international trade agreements.
Tobacco companies recently have accelerated their use of global trade rules to attempt to delay and reverse tobacco control measures that limit marketing of tobacco in the United States, Australia, Uruguay, Norway and Ireland.
Public health and medical advocates in the United States and abroad have urged the U.S. trade representative, a presidential appointee who negotiates trade agreements on behalf of the United States, to preserve existing protections on advertising, selling and using tobacco products as rules are worked out in a mega trade pact of 12 Pacific Rim nations including the United States, known as the Trans-pacific Partnership Agreement. And they are right
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