Research paper
Resources on Tobacco Industry Liability
This section brings together core GGTC and related materials on Article 19, administrative liability, environmental accountability, industry interference, and tobacco-related harm. Each publication is displayed as a resource card.
Guide
A Guide on Criminal (and Quasi-Criminal or Administrative) Liability in relation to the Implementation of WHO FCTC Article 19 (Liability)
Open resourceAgenda item
Accountability and Liability of the Tobacco Industry (2023)
Open resourcePolicy brief
Administrative Measures for Tobacco Industry Accountability
Open resourceIssue brief
An Inherent Contradiction: The Tobacco Industry’s Environment, Social & Governance Activities
Open resourceCOP11 brief
COP11 1-pager: Agenda Items 4.2 and 4.5 of the Eleventh Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the WHO FCTC
Open resourceSide event
COP11 Side Event: Non-Judicial Pathways to Article 19 Implementation: Accountability & Liability
Open resourceData brief
Economic Cost of Tobacco vs. Tax
Open resourceCOP10 briefing
Environmental Protection at COP10
Open resourceLiability explainer
Extrajudicial Approaches: Implementing Article 19 of the WHO FCTC
Open resourceHandbook
Handbook on Implementation of WHO FCTC Article 5.3: Policies and Practices that Protect Against Tobacco Industry Interference (2025)
Open resourceIssue brief
How Can People Living with NCDs Make Tobacco Companies Pay?
Open resourcePolicy brief
How Governments Can Make the Tobacco Industry Pay for the Damages It Has Caused
Open resourcePolicy brief
How Governments Can Take Actions Towards Preventive Measures that Support Implementation of Article 19
Open resourceResources package
Implementation of Article 19 of the WHO FCTC: Liability Resources Package (2024)
Open resourcePolicy instrument
Liability (Article 19 of the WHO FCTC)
Open resourceExpert group report
Liability (Article 19 of the WHO FCTC) Report by the Expert Group: Matters Relevant to Administrative Liability
Open resourceToolkit
Preventing Tobacco Industry Interference: A Toolkit for Advocates and Policymakers (2023)
Open resourceIssue brief
The Tobacco Industry: A Hindrance to the Elimination of Child Labor (2021)
Open resourceGGTC resource
Tobacco Industry Accountability and Liability in the Time of COVID
Open resourceIssue brief
Tobacco Industry: Manipulating the Youth into a Lifelong Addiction (2025)
Open resourceGlobal outlook
Tobacco’s Toxic Plastics: A Global Outlook (2022)
Open resourceJournal article
Turning Tobacco Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) into Extended Producer Liability (EPL): Critical Safeguards for the UN Plastics Treaty
Open resourceIssue brief
Why the Tobacco Industry Must Pay: Ten Categories of Harm
Open resourceExternal resources
External references and institutional materials
These external resources complement the materials above with civil-liability tools, litigation references, institutional explainers, and accountability series from other organizations.
Civil Liability Toolkit
Open resourceLiability (Article 19 of the WHO FCTC) Report by the Expert Group
Open resourceLiability Roadmap
Open resourcePhysicians for Smoke-Free Canada’s timeline of tobacco litigation in Canada
Open resourcePublic Health Law Center’s explainer on the MSA (1998)
Open resourceSTOP Accountability and Liability Series
Tobacco Trials
Open resourceU.S Department of Justice, Litigation Against Tobacco Companies (2000)
Open resourceWHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco
Open resourceFull resource library including Article 5.3 tools, country cases, and COP materials: ggtc.world/knowledge →