Urge US Government to ratify the FCTC

The Bush Administration signed the FCTC on May 10, 2004 but the President has not yet submitted the treaty to the Senate for ratification. We are calling on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to do everything in her power to ensure that the President submits the FCTC to the Senate immediately

The US government�s past track record and current inaction on this lifesaving treaty call into question whether this Administration is truly committed to public health and accountable to the US public. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the world, killing over 5 million people each year. It is time that the US stands up, joins the rest of the world, and ratifies the first global public health treaty.