Adopted by the 43rd World Medical Assembly
Malta, November 1991
and rescinded
at the WMA General Assembly, Santiago 2005
| WHEREAS |
the World Medical Association
has adopted the "Statement on Health Hazards of Tobacco
Products" calling for the prohibition of smoking, and |
| WHEREAS |
national medical associations
have the recognition and the credibility to promote a tobacco-free
society and have the responsibility to work for quality health
care for all, and |
| WHEREAS |
the International Civil
Aviation Organization (ICAO), affiliated with the United Nations,
is the body which establishes standards for international
civil aviation for 162 member countries, and |
| WHEREAS |
it is essential to
urge governments worldwide to support adoption of a standard
by ICAO requiring smoke-free flights worldwide. |
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
RECOMMENDS THAT:
- National medical associations urge prompt adoption of bilateral
or multilateral agreements requiring smoke-free international
flights between specific countries, while supporting the long-term
objective of adoption of a smoke-free standard by ICAO.
- National medical associations meet with government officials
responsible for policy that regulate international commercial
airline flights and urge them to support an ICAO standard for
smoke-free flights.
- National medical associations write to their country's ICAO
representative urging them to initiate or support a standard
for smoke-free flights (list attached).
- National medical associations urge their Minister of Transportation
to initiate bilateral or multilateral agreements banning smoking
on all flights.
- National medical associations contact their Minister of Health
and members of parliament or congress to solicit support for
the initiative.
- National medical associations send a summary report to the
WMA Secretariat regarding the result of actions taken to achieve
the goal of banning smoking on all commercial flights so that
ideas can be shared.
The World Medical Association wishes to express its appreciation
to the American Cancer Society for supplying the information
on which the resolution to "Prohibit Smoking on International
Flights" is based.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ICAO COUNCIL
Thirty-three nations make-up the ICAO Council, which is ICAO's
executive decision-making body. While support from all nations
is needed to achieve an international airline smoking ban, it
is especially important for groups within the 33 ICAO Council-member
nations to make their views known. The 33 nations, and the names
of their representatives, are as follows:
| NATION |
REPRESENTATIVE |
| Argentina |
R.F. Cardoso |
| Australia |
B. Weeden |
| Brazil |
C. Pinheiro |
| Canada |
G. H. Duguay |
| Chile |
J.B. Lavin |
| People's Republic of China |
Li Keli (Alternate) |
| Czechoslovakia |
O. Vodieka |
| Egypt |
M.A. Abulmagd |
| Finland |
V.M. Metsalampf |
| France |
P. Henault |
| Germany |
U. Gartner |
| Ghana |
J.O. Koranteng |
| Honduras |
C.A. Vasquez Rodriguez |
| India |
V. Pattanayak |
| Indonesia |
A. Boediman |
| Iraq |
S.A.A. Al-Khayat |
| Italy |
O. Stea-Antonini |
| Japan |
T. Fujita |
| Madagascar |
A. Razafindramisa |
| Mexico |
J. Perez y Bouras |
| Netherlands |
A.C.H. van Schelle |
| Nigeria |
D.O. Eniojukan |
| Pakistan |
E.A. Qureshi |
| Saudi Arabia |
S. Al-Ghamdi |
| Senegal |
P. Diouf |
| Spain |
L. Androver |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
M.E. Nancoo |
| Tanzania |
Dr C.V. Mpinga Mgana |
| Venezuela |
Dr L.E. Vera Barrios |
| Tunisia |
A. R. El Hicheri |
| USSR |
I.F. Vasin |
| United Kingdom |
F.A. Neal |
| United States |
D.M. Newman |
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