Weren't you the one complaining that conservatives get all their opinions from listening to dumbasses? You're going to let a paragraph in Newsweek tell you how it is?

How about checking out the original information at the WHO? Or check out the draft of the actual agreement?

As you can see, there is a little more baggage to this agreement than a simple ban on advertising, including yet another attempt to milk cash from the tobacco companies, already a favorite hobby of lawyers and politicians inside the United States. That's why nobody ever suggests making tobacco illegal--nobody wants to kill the cow.

Like most such "treaties," another transparent attempt to wrest control from sovereign nations and transfer it to an "enlightened" international body.

The usual process is that some academic international group promotes something like a "Treaty To Insure Children's Nutrition," with a clause demanding that every signatory document that children in the nation are getting exactly the proper amount of calories in their daily diet, and eating only proper foods. For good measure, tack on a liability clause for fast food companies. When free nations shrink from this kind of totalitarian wet dream, people like you pipe up with something like "don't you WANT kids to have good nutrition?"

Oh, for the record, the other nations having difficulty with the treaty are Germany and China. Not that that means anything, but that wasn't in the oh-so-informative Newsweek story.