The global tobacco treaty opened for signature on June 16, 2003, and took effect as international law on February 27th, 2005. Once a leader in tobacco control, the United States remains on the sidelines, among a shrinking minority of nations that have yet to ratify the treaty.

President Bush signed the global tobacco treaty four years ago, but has not yet submitted it to the Senate for ratification. In 2005, eleven U.S. Senators urged President Bush to send the treaty to the Senate for consideration. One of those Senators was Barack Obama, now the President of the United States.

As President Obama begins his first term and take on foreign and domestic policy decisions, call on the president to change course and favor public health over private profits. It’s time that the U.S. stopped standing on the sidelines and began lending its considerable influence to prevent tobacco addiction and related disease.

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