Tobacco and the rights of the child (English)

(in English)

This document is a result of the project, The Child’s Rights Concerning Tobacco (CRCT). Tobaksfakta, an independent think tank, carried out the project with support from the Swedish Public Health Agency and in collaboration with several county councils and regions. The aim of the project is to strengthen the child’s right to a tobacco-free childhood and adolescence, by different means of public education.

The importance of that right is emphasized by two international conventions which support and strengthen each other: the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control — commonly referred to as CRC and the FCTC.