text: South African appeal court cites FCTC - Framework Convention Alliance
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  It continued: '… in determining whether or not to impose a ban on advertising and promotion of tobacco products the Minister would have been obliged to have regard to the Framework Convention… This Court is therefore obliged, under the Constitution, to give weight to it in determining the question of justification or the limitation of the right to freedom of speech'.
  In its decision the court rejected an appeal by British American Tobacco (BAT) against a ban on one-to-one communications with consenting adult consumers of tobacco products, which is contained in the South African Government's 2008 amendment of the tobacco control laws.
  The FCTC now has 175 Parties, including the European Union. Those countries account for nearly 90 percent of the world's population.
  The Convention is being cited by courts worldwide, according to the International Legal Consortium of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which runs the website Tobacco Control Laws – Litigation.