The World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is considering cutting its funding for delegates from poorer countries to attend meetings.
The cuts – supported by the EU, Canada, and Australia – would undermine the representation of those countries most at risk, research led by Edinburgh University has claimed.
Professor Jeff Collin of the university, who led the study, said: “The cost of supporting developing countries’ participation in the FCTC is tiny compared with the catastrophic impacts of tobacco in these countries.”