Tobacco in the Workplace: Meeting with Challenges

This handbook will help your workplace to develop and implement a workplace smoking policy. It aims to provide step-by-step guidance and practical tools to enable you to implement the best possible smoking policy.

Failure to address the issue of smoking in the workplace costs employers money, contributes to premature death and disability and the suffering caused by them and, in the long term, may threaten the viability of your organization.

Article 11: Guideline

Consistent with other provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the intentions of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, these guidelines are intended to assist Parties in meeting their obligations under Article 11 of the Convention, and to propose measures...

Article 13: Guideline

The purpose of these guidelines is to assist Parties in meeting their obligations under Article 13 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. They draw on the best available evidence and the experience of Parties that have successfully implemented effective measures against tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship...

Article 8: Guideline

The guidelines contain agreed upon statements of principles and definitions of relevant terms, as well as agreed upon recommendations for the steps required to satisfy the obligations of the Convention. In addition, the guidelines identify the measures necessary to achieve...

Article 5.3: Guideline

on the protection of public health policies with respect to tobacco control from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry...