Uneven implementation of FCTC articles impeding tobacco control Islamabad December 27, 2020 Islamabad : Two years have slipped by since the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Global Strategy to Accelerate Tobacco Control 2019-2025 (GS2025). However, when it relaunched GS2025 last month, there were no signs of progress vis-a-vis implementation of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). What resonated, on the contrary, were ongoing failures in policy implementation. Dr. Ehsan Latif, Vice President of Grant Management and Development at the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World has expressed these views while drawing attention to priority areas for smoking cessation in a recently published blog. He sees “uneven implementation of several FCTC articles” as being responsible for the WHO’s trajectory of failure in the domain of tobacco control.