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The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health

Building capacity for a tobacco-free world

July 12-15, 2006, Washington, DC, USA



Friday, July 14, 2006: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 303 (Convention Center)
Issues in Tobacco Policy Development: Sales, Norm Change, Religion and Human Rights
Moderator:Alyonik Hrushow (USA)
3:30 PMLessons Learned Enforcing a Local Tobacco Permit Ordinance
Alyonik Hrushow (USA), Susana Hennessey Lavery (USA), Mele Lau Smith (USA)
3:45 PMGhana's Draft Tobacco Control Bill and the Establishment of a Tobacco and Substances of Abuse Department
AKUA OWUSUA AMARTEY (Ghana)
4:00 PMTobacco Control ..Current Medical & Islamic Review
Layth Yahya Ibrahim (Iraq)
4:15 PMState cigarette delivery sales laws: A review of provisions to prevent youth access and tax evasion
Jamie Chriqui (USA), Kurt M. Ribisl (USA), Carissa Baker (USA), Tieu Luu (USA), Regina El Arculli (USA), Rebecca Williams (USA)
4:30 PMFreedom of Commercial Expression: The Case for Excluding Artificial Entities from the Protections that Human Rights Laws Promise
Stefanie J. Driskell (Australia)
4:45 PMClarifying the concept of “denormalization” in tobacco prevention efforts
James Francis Thrasher (USA), K. Michael Cummings (USA), Richard Warnecke, Abraham Brown (United Kingdom)

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