National ombudsmen, human rights commissions, consumer forums, patients rights associations or similar institutions should address violations of the right to health.[217] The right to health also includes the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas concerning health issues.[218] Specifically, state parties have an obligation to provide education and access to information concerning the main health problems in the community, including methods of preventing and controlling them.[219] The Convention on the Rights of the Child ties childrens right to the highest attainable standard of health, including the right to nutritious food and safe drinking water, to issues of environmental pollution, and defines the childs right to information on environmental health issues and defines environmental education as one of the goals of education.[220] In its concluding observations on country reports, the Committee on the Rights of the Child regularly addresses environmental hazards as barriers to the realization of the right to health and other rights.[221] The Committee has held that States should take measures to address the dangers and risks that local environmental pollution poses to childrens health.[222] Lebanon is a party to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which requires its parties to take measures to eliminate or reduce the release of these pollutants into the environment and ensure that stockpiles and waste containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants are managed in a manner protective of human health and the environment.[223] Lebanon is also a party to the Basel Convention, which requires state parties to ensure the availability of adequate disposal facilities for the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes, including toxic, poisonous, explosive, corrosive, flammable, ecotoxic, and infectious wastes.[224] Acknowledgments Human Rights Watch would like to thank the individuals who generously took the time to speak with us about their experiences for this report, and to describe the effects that open burning of waste has had on their lives
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The committee recognizes that there are four distinct tobacco product use states (no use, e-cigarette only, combustible tobacco cigarette only, dual use) that each may have unique health consequences
This was a devastating defeat for big tobacco, said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, whose evidence submitted to the court was also shared with MPs before they debated the introduction of the regulation
Consequently, registered vape shops may be limited to selling mint, menthol, or wintergreen variants
