U. S. Action

UPDATE: This June, President Obama signed landmark legislation giving the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products. Read more information about the new FDA tobacco control regulations and the global tobacco treaty here.

As a U.S. Senator, Barack Obama urged President Bush to push back against Big Tobacco and allow the Senate to ratify unprecedented international protections against the global tobacco epidemic. If President Obama follows through on this in 2009, the United States could make dramatic progress in curbing the disease and death caused by tobacco.

With your help we can protect the health of American families from tobacco addiction and marketing abuses.

 

Global Tobacco Treaty

The global tobacco treaty opened for signature in June 2003, and took effect as international law on February 2005. Once a leader in tobacco control, the United States remains on the sidelines, among a shrinking minority of nations that have yet to ratify the treaty.

 

Legislation

U.S. ratification would protect current and future generations of Americans from tobacco addiction, disease and death. More than 400,000 Americans die each year from tobacco-related illness. The U.S., after signing the global tobacco treaty on May 10, 2004, has waited far too long to ratify it.