Experiences and Innovative Strategies to Protect Children and Youth from Tobacco Marketing

Join us on Monday, June 3, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. (Washington DC, or EDT) at the webinar Experiences and Innovative Strategies to Protect Children and Youth from Tobacco Marketing, organized jointly by the Pan American Health Organization, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and Corporate Accountability. This event will commemorate World No Tobacco Day 2024 (May 31), whose goal this year is to provide a platform to youth who demand that the tobacco industry stop targeting this group with products harmful to their health.

Objectives of the webinar:

Share with PAHO Member States, civil society organizations, and academia, under the framework of World No Tobacco Day 2024, the tobacco industry's strategies to interfere with tobacco control policies, especially those targeting children and youth, at both regional and national levels.
Give a platform to young people across the Americas, who are calling for the tobacco industry to stop targeting them with products that are harmful to their health.
Strengthen Member States' technical capacity on the specific guidelines recently approved at the Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO FCTC to address cross-border tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship and the depiction of tobacco in entertainment media for implementation of Article 13 (Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship) of the WHO FCTC.

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CONCEPT NOTE

How to participate

DATE: Monday, June 3rd, 2024
TIME: 11:00 A.M. (Washington D.C. or EDT) [check the local time in other cities at the end of this page]
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, and Portuguese with simultaneous translation.
REGISTRATION: https://paho-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o1e-uFEMQmaR47AQ_ySJUg

Broadcast

Agenda

Opening remarks

11:00 a.m. Video World No Tobacco Day 2024

Jarbas Barbosa, Director, Pan American Health Organization (video)
Patricia Sosa, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

World No Tobacco Day 2024 Awards

Rosa Sandoval, Pan American Health Organization

Objectives and agenda

Patricia Gutkowski, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids 

What can governments do to protect children and youth from tobacco industry strategies?

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. The tobacco industry and its interference strategies focused on new generations: Case of music festivals and CSR actions aimed at girls, boys and young people in the region

Daniel Dorado, Corporate Accountability

11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Actions by youth in the Americas to counteract tobacco industry interference.

Nayib Chalela, Crea

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Specific guidelines on cross-border tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship and on the portrayal of tobacco in the entertainment media

Patrick Musavuli, Secretariat of the WHO FCTC

12:00 – 12:10 p.m. Questions and answers

12:10 - 12:55 p.m. International panel: Challenges and opportunities to counteract tobacco industry strategies targeting children and youth

Moderators:

Diana Cerón Díaz, Panamerican Health Organization
Danielle Walwyn, Healthy Caribbean Coalition

Caribe

Danielle Walwyn, Healthy Caribbean Coalition

Colombia

Carolina Giraldo Botero, National Congress
Carlos Jiménez, Red PaPaz

Brazil

André Luiz Oliveira da Silva, ANVISA

Questions and answers

1:00 p.m. Closing Remarks

PAHO, CTFK, Corporate Accountability

Time in other cities

8:00 am. – Los Angeles, Vancouver.
9:00 am. - Belmopan, Mexico City, Guatemala City, Managua, San Jose (CR), San Salvador, Tegucigalpa
10:00 a.m. – Bogotá, Panama City, Kingston, Lima, Port-au-Prince, Quito
11:00 am. – Asunción, Bridgetown, Caracas, Georgetown, Havana, La Paz, Port of Spain, Nassau, Ottawa, Santiago, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Washington D.C.
12:00 a.m. - Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo, Paramaribo.
5:00 pm. – Geneva, Madrid.

For other cities, check the local time using the following link.

Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH)

Strengthening multisectoral action for tobacco control in the Region of the Americas