FCTC/COP/9/10 Challenges posed by and classification of novel and emerging tobacco products

Overview

Ninth session
Geneva, Switzerland, 8–13 November 2021

Provisional agenda item 4.2

This report examines the challenges that novel and emerging tobacco products are posing for the comprehensive application of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, in particular those articles and guidelines referring to definitions and terminology and to tobacco smoke, and provides information on the adequate classification of such products, such as heated tobacco products, to support regulatory efforts, as requested in paragraph 3 of decision FCTC/COP8(22).