Dullah Omar Institute, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018 Feb 1;7(2):189-191. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.70.
The Tobacco Convention was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003. Nikogosian and Kickbusch examine the five potential impacts of the Tobacco Convention and its Protocol on public health. These include the adoption of the Convention would seem to unlock the treaty-making powers of WHO; the impact of the Convention in the global health architecture has been phenomenal globally; the Convention has facilitated the adoption of further instruments to strengthen its implementation at the national level; the Convention has led to the adoption of appropriate legal framework to combat the use of tobacco at the national level and that the impact of the Convention would seem to go beyond public health but has also led to the adoption of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco. However, the article by Nikogosian and Kickbusch would seem to overlook some of the challenges that may militate against the effective implementation of international law, including the Tobacco Convention, at the national level.
《烟草控制框架公约》由世界卫生组织（世卫组织）于 2003 年通过。Nikogosian 和 Kickbusch 研究了《烟草控制框架公约》及其议定书对公共卫生的五个潜在影响。这些影响包括：《公约》的通过似乎开启了世卫组织的条约制定权力；《公约》在全球卫生架构中的影响在全球范围内是惊人的；《公约》促进了进一步的文书的通过，以加强其在国家一级的执行；《公约》导致在国家一级通过了适当的法律框架来打击烟草使用；《公约》的影响似乎超出了公共卫生范围，还导致了《消除烟草制品非法贸易议定书》的通过。然而，Nikogosian 和 Kickbusch 的文章似乎忽略了一些可能阻碍国家一级有效执行国际法，包括《烟草控制框架公约》的挑战。
