The FCTC secretariat here links to a page on protecting children from second hand smoke. It includes this statement.

So, my question is what does being grounded in human rights mean?

Thread (1/8) https://twitter.com/FCTCofficial/status/1265939976052772864

2/8 The link in the centre above is to FCTC conference of the parties guidelines on implementing Art 8 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco control. So let's take a closer look https://www.who.int/fctc/treaty_instruments/adopted/Guidelines_Article_8_English.pdf?ua=1?ua=1%22%22&ua=1

3/8 Here is what it has to say about human rights. To me, though, this is not what being grounded in human rights means. why? Because human rights don't get mentioned anywhere else in the guidance.

4/8 Human rights don't appear in the principles

This is despite the fact that voluntariness is rejected as a principle (principle 3). Are there no rights issues here?

And what if civil society groups disagree (principle 5), e,g. around vaping indoors? Do their voices get heard?

5/8 What about strengthened enforcement (principle 7)? Surely there are human rights issues here? Not according to this document. Despite the following:

6/8 No human rights issues around criminal penalties?

Really?

7/8 and no human rights concerns around an explicit strategy to use enforcement mechanisms make examples of people?

8/8 Adopting a human rights approach to tobacco control has to be better than this. It must look also at human rights implications of tobacco control policies/strategies.

My chapter in this book with @juliehannah_ discusses. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/human-rights-and-tobacco-control-9781788974813.html