Smoke-free Europe Conference Resolution on the Progress made in Lithuania

The Conference for a Smoke-free Europe, held in Helsinki from 2-4 October 1996 with more than 500 scientists, administrators, politicians and public health professionals and activists from 50 countries, and to which Mr Padraig Flynn, Commissioner of the European Commission, Ms Terttu Huttu-Juntunen, Minister of Social Affairs and Health of Finland, Mr William B. Schultz, Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Mr Prabhat Jha, of the World Bank attended,

• notes with great pleasure that the Lithuanian Parliament, on 20 December 1995, passed a comprehensive tobacco control law that includes, among other things, a complete ban on tobacco advertising, health warnings on packages, smoke-free public places and an age limit for purchasing cigrarettes, and allocates a percentage of tobacco tax to be used to support health promotion and tobacco control activities,
• congratulates the Lithuanian Parliament for passing such a law,
• encourages the Lithuanian authorities to exhange experiences with those European countries that have already implemented similar policies and with those that are planning to do so.