BELLAGIO STATEMENT ON TOBACCO AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Representatives of international, national and scientific organization s met in Bellagio, Italy, in June 1995 to examine the implications of global trends in tobacco production and consumption. The 22 participan ts agreed that a growing pandemic of tobacco use poses a major threat to sustainable and equitable development in low-income countries. The International Development Research Centre was invited to lead a roundt able consultative process to devise a broad-based funding strategy to promote action on tobacco control.