Translation of "All-African Conference on Tobacco Control " (English → French) :

African Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of All Hazardous Waste in the Continent

African Standing Conference on Bibliographic Control

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

(a) to protect the health of young persons throughout Canada from the numerous debilitating and fatal diseases and other consequences injurious to health that are associated with tobacco use; (b) to protect young persons throughout Canada from inducements to use tobacco products and to counteract such inducements; (c) to discourage and prevent tobacco use by young persons throughout Canada, including children, and to fight their addiction to tobacco and dependence on its use; (d) to develop a multi-year strategy to combat the use of tobacco products by young persons and to involve young persons as much as possible in the design and ex ...[+++]ecution of any programs that are part of the strategy; (e) to examine existing models of best practices for tobacco control in North America and, in consultation with recognized health organizations, to develop a model to be applied in Canada and to review it from time to time by comparing it with other models developed in other countries; (f) to monitor the use of tobacco products throughout Canada by gathering, commissioning, sharing and publicizing statistics and, in particular, statistics on the market share of brands and on their use by different groups of young persons; (g) to gather, sponsor, commission, conduct and share research on the use of tobacco products throughout Canada and on ways to motivate young persons not to start using tobacco products and to cease using them; (h) to develop and distribute educational tools, plan and execute communications strategies, run advertising campaigns, use the media and disseminate information through other means to discourage and prevent the use of tobacco products by young persons; (i) to hold and sponsor programs, conferences and peer and other group activities to discourage and prevent the use of tobacco products by young persons; (j) to engage in and fund, at the local, regional and national levels throughout Canada, activities of health groups and other organizations and pe ...

A Protocol on the Elimination of the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the main achievement of a conference in Seoul, South Korea, which will conclude its works tomorrow.

Furthermore, guidelines on tobacco packaging and labelling adopted by the Third Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in November 2008 recommend that legal measures for packaging and labelling of tobacco products should be reviewed periodically and updated as new evidence emerges and as specific health warnings and messages wear out.

Furthermore, guidelines on tobacco packaging and labelling (2) adopted by the Third Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in November 2008 recommend that legal measures for packaging and labelling of tobacco products should be reviewed periodically and updated as new evidence emerges and as specific health warnings and messages wear out.