OBJECTIVE To investigate non-point-of-sale cigarette marketing in Australia, one of the "darkest" markets in the world. DESIGN Analysis of 172 tobacco industry documents. RESULTS The tobacco industry has continued to market their products despite severe restrictions on legal marketing activity. They made careful plans to circumvent regulation well in advance. In preparation for bans, they c...

OBJECTIVE To develop a comprehensive conceptual framework of tobacco industry tactics in four countries in South East Asia for the purpose of: (1) generating consensus on key areas of importance and feasibility for regional and cross country tobacco industry monitoring and surveillance; (2) developing measures to track and monitor the effects of the tobacco industry and to design counterstrateg...

We identify factors that led a regional government (Quebec, Canada) to opt for a reduction of its tobacco tax to combat tobacco smuggling. Then we explore the fallout of Quebec's tobacco-tax rollback on its tobacco control policy. We conducted qualitative research using a case-study design and multiple sources of data. We applied the Advocacy Coalition Framework in respect of data collection an...

OBJECTIVE To assess capacity and human resources in Latin America countries and compare with other countries. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were gathered through needs assessments that were conducted at the 2009 World Conference on Tobacco or Health, and the 2nd Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco-International American Heart Foundation, Latin America Tobacco Control Conference held in M...

cantly lower than the Euromonitor estimates suggest. Euromonitor states the source of its illicit trade estimates as “official statistics, trade associations, trade press, trade interviews, [and] Euromonitor International estimates”. However, the methodology and sources used by Euromonitor are not well-documented, and the discrepancies across editions call into serious question the sources of d...

OBJECTIVE To give an overview of available internal tobacco industry documents on the transnational tobacco companies' (TTCs) efforts to enter the new market of the emerging democracy of Hungary and how it developed allies in its efforts at resisting tobacco control regulations. METHOD Internal tobacco industry documents relevant to Hungary, available on the World Wide Web, were searched betw...

This study explores whether exposure to advertisements that focus on the negative effects of tobacco industry advertising and promotion at the point of sale (anti-POS advertising) influence: (i) attitude toward POS advertising; (ii) perceived impact of POS advertising on youth smoking; and (iii) support for a ban on tobacco promotion at the POS among adult non-smokers in New York. Data are from...

Shifting patterns of tobacco production and consumption, and the resultant disease burden worldwide since the late twentieth century, prompted efforts to strengthen global health governance through adoption of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. While the treaty is rightfully considered an important achievement, to address a neglected public health issue through collective action, evid...

For many years, the major dispute between the tobacco industry and the public health community was over the issue of whether smoking caused morbidity and premature mortality, or whether there was simply a statistical association without a causal connection. In the face of the type of evidence comprehensively surveyed in several recent international and Australian meta-analyses, and particularly...