WELCOME TO ACWH

2009 International Conference on FCTC: Control of Demand and Supply of Tobacco and International Trade


2009年菸草控制框架公約國際研討會:菸草供給與需求暨國際貿易


DATE

Friday-Saturday, 28th -29th August 2009


VENUE

Howard International House, Room 101

No. 30, Sec. 3, Xinsheng South Road, Taipei, Taiwan

台北市新生南路3段30號福華國際文教會館101室


Organizers


Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health

衛生署國民健康局

And

Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy

Collage of Law, National Taiwan University

臺大法律學院亞洲WTO暨國際衛生法與政策研究中心



AGENDA

Friday, 28th August 2009

8:00-08:30

Registration

08:30- 8:40

Opening Remarks


Director-General, Mei-ling Hsiao, RPh. MS.(蕭美玲局長)

Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health, Taiwan


Professor Chang-fa Lo, (羅昌發教授)

College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan


Session I

第一場

National Experiences on Tobacco Control

各國菸草控制經驗

8:40- 12:00

Chairperson: Director-General, Mei-Ling Hsiao, Rph. MS.


1.     Michael Ong (M.D., Ph. D., UCLA, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center)


The Economics of Tobacco Control in the U.S Tobacco Control Program


2.     Tsai Feng-Jen (Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Public Health, National Taiwan University)(蔡奉真)


The Political Processes behind the Passage of Smoking Ban in Public Place ­–A Comparison of California and Taiwan


3.     Chien-huei Wu (Assistant Professor, National Chung Cheng University College of Law) (吳建輝助理教授)


EU/EC’s Participation in the WHO and FCTC: A Good Case for EU/EC as a Global Actor?


4.     Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy


The Experience of Reducing Tobacco Growing in Taiwan: Government Intervention Failure and its Cure


12:00- 13:00

Lunch Break

Session II

第二場

Tobacco Advertisement and Internet Sales

菸草廣告與網路銷售

13:00- 15:15

Chairperson: Professor Tsai-yu Lin


5.     Suketaka Iwanaga (Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University)


Tobacco Advertisement and Its Related Issues


6.     Sufian Jusoh (NCCR Research Fellow, The World Trade Institute)


ASEAN Regional Preferential Trade Agreements: Is There Any Negative Implications on the Proposed FCTC Ban on Internet Sale of Tobacco?


7.     Pei-kan Yang (Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Financial and Economic Law, Feng Chia University) (楊培侃助理教授)


Brand Stretching and Brand Sharing: Is a Ban on Indirect Advertising of Tobacco Products in Conformity with Trade Rules under the WTO


15:15- 15:30

Coffee Break

Session III

第三場

Tobacco Control and Policies & Rules on Taxes, Trade and Investment

菸草控制與租稅、貿易及投資

15:30- 17:40

Chairperson: Professor Chang-fa Lo


8.     Chu-wei Tseng (Professor, Department of Public Finance, National Chengchi University)(曾巨威教授)


U.S.rol omics of Tobacco innn 40MS.or GeneralA Study on Tax Burden of Cigarette Taxes and Characteristics of Smoking Families in Taiwan


9.     Tsai-yu Lin (Professor of Law, Department of International Business, Soochow University)(林彩瑜教授)


Aiding Farmers to Shift Away From Tobacco Cultivation and Develop Alternative Crops: Considerations from WTO Rules on Agricultural Subsidies


10.  Chang-fa Lo (Chair and Lifetime Distinguished Professor, NTU College of Law)(羅昌發教授)


Proper Investment Rules as an Effective Control of Tobacco Supply



                                                                                                                             


AGENDA

Saturday, 29th August 2009

Session IV

第四場

Other Methods of Controlling Demand and Supply

需求與供給之其他管控途徑

9:30- 12:00

Chairperson: Professor Chang-fa Lo


11.  Gregg Bloche (Professor of Law; Co-Director, Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health)


Using Law to Take Sides: Tobacco Control and the Struggle within Ourselves


12.  Neil Boister (Professor, School of Law, University of Canterbury)


The Suppression of the Illicit Trade in Tobacco through International Law: Current Developments



13.  Fong-ching Chang (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Promotion and Health Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)(張鳳琴助理教授)


Impact of Smoke-free Ordinance and Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels in Taiwan


12:00- 12:10

Concluding Remarks