Pushback: Statements and Actions to Counter Tobacco Industry Tactics
Jul 01, 2020
A. Countering Tobacco in the News
While TII intensifies during COVID-19, various organizations have pushed back with strong statements condemning the behavior of the tobacco industry and those furthering its interests; or calling for accelerated implementation of tobacco control measures during the pandemic and in the new normal.
Track and Trace Systems: Tobacco Industry Links (2019)
Jul 18, 2019
Challenges in Protecting Against Tobacco Industry Interference in the era of the Illicit Trade Protocol From Complicity in Cigarette Smuggling to Promoting so-called Solutions
Tobacco Industry Tactics: Tax Policies (2019)
Tobacco industry interference has been particularly strong against efforts to increase tobacco taxes. The industry aims to ensure that tobacco products remain affordable, while protecting their own profits – at the expense of public health. Tobacco companies target governments and finance ministries with “studies” claiming exaggerated and inaccurate economic impacts from higher taxes. Tobacco transnationals also use illicit trade as a key argument against tax increases, despite their own complicity in smuggling.
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Tobacco Industry: Decade of Deception and Duplicity (2019)
Oct 18, 2019
Tobacco companies “have marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted” – Judge Gladys Kessler, United States District Court, 2006
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https://applications.emro.who.int/docs/FS-TFI-198-2019-EN.pdf?ua=1&ua=1
World No Tobacco Day: Exposing Tobacco Tactics to Save the Next Generation
Bangkok –On May 31, in celebration of World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) is unveiling visual expressions of protest against the tobacco industry’s ploys to manipulate the youth.
E-Cigarette Ban & Regulation: Global Status as of February 2021
37 COUNTRIES1 BAN SELLING OF E-CIGARETTES
The sale/distribution of e-cigarettes2 is banned in the following thirty-seven (37) countries: Antigua and Barbuda*, Argentina, Australia, Bhutan*, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, India, Iran, Japan**, N. Korea*, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Qatar, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Syria, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey*, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela*, Palestine***