Heated tobacco products: another tobacco industry global strategy to slow progress in tobacco control

Tobacco taxes as a tobacco control strategy.

BACKGROUND Increases in tobacco taxes are widely regarded as a highly effective strategy for reducing tobacco use and its consequences. METHODS The voluminous literature on tobacco taxes is assessed, drawing heavily from seminal and recent publications reviewing the evidence on the impact of tobacco taxes on tobacco use and related outcomes, as well as that on tobacco tax administration. RE...

Tobacco industry litigation strategies to oppose tobacco control media campaigns.

OBJECTIVE To document the tobacco industry's litigation strategy to impede tobacco control media campaigns. METHODS Data were collected from news and reports, tobacco industry documents, and interviews with health advocates and media campaign staff. RESULTS RJ Reynolds and Lorillard attempted to halt California's Media Campaign alleging that the campaign polluted jury pools and violated Fir...

Recognizing progress in tobacco control.

Tobacco industry successfully prevented tobacco control legislation in Argentina.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate how transnational tobacco companies, working through their local affiliates, influenced tobacco control policymaking in Argentina between 1966 and 2005. METHODS Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents, local newspapers and magazines, internet resources, bills from the Argentinean National Congress Library, and interviews with key individuals in Argentina. RESUL...

Tobacco industry allegations of "illegal lobbying" and state tobacco control.

OBJECTIVES This study assessed the perceived effect of tobacco industry allegations of "illegal lobbying" by public health professionals on policy interventions for tobacco control. METHODS Structured interviews were conducted with state health department project managers in all 17 National Cancer Institute-funded American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST) states. Documentation and med...