The seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control concluded in Greater Noida adjoining the national capital today. <br/><br/>Several significant decisions were adopted in the course of the six-day session. <br/><br/>During the conference, the delegates said that without strong tobacco control measures, it will kill about one billion people in the 21st Century. <br/><br/>Health Ministry in a release said, by 2030, over 80 percent of the world's tobacco-related mortality will be in low and middle income countries. <br/><br/>The Conference of the Parties urged to intensify multi-sectoral actions and cooperation to address strategies of the tobacco industry to undermine tobacco control. <br/><br/>It calls on Parties to remain vigilant of tobacco industry efforts to undermine the implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. <br/><br/>The Parties have requested further research on evidence on tobacco use and tobacco control. During the conference, the Parties recognize that tobacco control is related to a number of Sustainable Development Goals and targets including those related to the environment and human rights.<br/><br/>India will preside the eighth edition of the Conference of Parties to WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which will be in Switzerland's Geneva. <br/><br/>The global anti-tobacco conference is likely to be in the later part of 2018.<br/><br/>The World Health Organisations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the world's biggest convention to frame the anti-tobacco policies.

The seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control concluded in Greater Noida adjoining the national capital today. <br/><br/>Several significant decisions were adopted in the course of the six-day session. <br/><br/>During the conference, the delegates said that without strong tobacco control measures, it will kill about one billion people in the 21st Century. <br/><br/>Health Ministry in a release said, by 2030, over 80 percent of the world's tobacco-related mortality will be in low and middle income countries. <br/><br/>The Conference of the Parties urged to intensify multi-sectoral actions and cooperation to address strategies of the tobacco industry to undermine tobacco control. <br/><br/>It calls on Parties to remain vigilant of tobacco industry efforts to undermine the implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. <br/><br/>The Parties have requested further research on evidence on tobacco use and tobacco control. During the conference, the Parties recognize that tobacco control is related to a number of Sustainable Development Goals and targets including those related to the environment and human rights.