It was chaired by Jan Monteverde Haakonsen, special advisor of the Research Council of Norway, member of the Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO, and Vice-President of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the MOST Programme.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Jo Butcher, the National Children's Bureau's programme director of health and wellbeing, welcomed the ban and said a person's lifetime smoking or non-smoking behaviour was "heavily influenced" by decisions in their adolescence.

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