The following definitions are to be used in interpreting the Global Network Standards. The terms are taken directly or adapted from those used in the WHO FCTC¹ and specifically in the FCTC Art 14 Guidelines² 

• “Associated devices”: means any device manufactured for the purpose of either delivering nicotine or imitating smoking (ie shisha, nargile hookah, water pipes and E-Cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) or personal vaporizer (PV) which is a battery-powered vaporizer that simulates the feeling of smoking, but without tobacco combustion);
•  “Healthcare services”: means settings in which healthcare professionals deliver health services for the promotion of health, prevention of illness and the treatment of disease and ill health.
• “Promotion of tobacco cessation”: means approaches that contribute to population-wide measures to reduce tobacco prevalence.” 
• “Tobacco addiction/dependence”: means a cluster of behavioural, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated tobacco use and that typically include a strong desire to use tobacco, difficulties in controlling its use, persistence in tobacco use despite harmful consequences, a higher priority given to tobacco use than to other activities and obligations, increased tolerance, and sometimes a physical withdrawal state;
• “Tobacco advertising and promotion”: means any form of commercial communication, recommendation or endorsement by or on behalf of the tobacco industry;
• “Tobacco cessation services”: means the provision of behavioural support or medication, or both, to tobacco users to help them overcome their addiction/dependence and stop their tobacco use;
• “Tobacco cessation”: means the process of stopping the use of any tobacco product or associate devises with or without assistance and with the intention to remain tobacco free;
• “Tobacco control/prevention”: means a range of supply, demand and treatment strategies that aim to improve the health of a population by eliminating or reducing their consumption of tobacco products or the use of associated devices and exposure to secondhand smoke and e-cigarette vapor;
• “Tobacco industry”: means growers, tobacco manufacturers, wholesale distributors and importers of tobacco products and associated devises;
• “Tobacco management”: means an agreed method of implementing a tobacco-free policy to deliver safe quality care in relation to tobacco;
• “Tobacco products”: means products entirely (such as nicotine) or partly made of the leaf tobacco as raw material which are manufactured to be used for smoking, sucking, chewing or snuffing;
• “Tobacco sponsorship”: means any form of contribution to an event, activity, research or individual by or on behalf of the tobacco industry; 
• “Tobacco user”: means a person who uses any tobacco product or associated devises as defined above regardless of frequency of use;
• “Tobacco-free policy”: means a set of guidelines or principles adopted by the healthcare organisation to address all matters related to tobacco use; 
• “Tobacco-free”: means to improve population health within healthcare settings by treating tobacco addiction/dependence as part of routine healthcare, denormalising tobacco use, prohibiting all tobacco products and associated devises and eliminating exposure to second-hand smoke and e-cigarette vapor;

1 Framework for Convention on Tobacco Control; http://www.who.int/fctc/publications/en/

2 Guidelines for implementation of Article 14; http://www.who.int/fctc/treaty_instruments/adopted/article_14/en/