The globalisation of tobacco marketing, trade, research, and industry influence represents a major threat to public health worldwide. Drawing upon tobacco industry strategy documents prepared over several decades, this paper will demonstrate how the tobacco industry operates as a global force, regarding the world as its operating market by planning, developing, and marketing its products on a g...

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In this commentary, we flag the importance of taking a child-rights approach in the context of tobacco control, which is thus far unprecedented. This text was written in response to the Seventh Conference of States Parties of WHOs Framework Convention on Tobacco Control held in India from 7 to 12 November 2016.While the links between tobacco control and human rights were emphasised at this conf...

OBJECTIVES To assess public attitudes toward the tobacco industry and its products, and to identify predictors of attitudes supportive of tobacco industry denormalisation. DESIGN Population based, cross sectional survey. SETTING Ontario, Canada. SUBJECTS Adult population (n = 1607). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Eight different facets of tobacco industry denormalisation were assessed. A denorma...

Correspondence to: Jonathan D Liberman, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia; jonathan.liberman@ cancervic.org.au Competing interests: Jonathan Liberman was Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) policy director from March 2006 to December 2008, a period that included both COP-2 and COP-3. The FCA is an international non-governmental organisation representing over 350 NGOs from more than 100 cou...

OBJECTIVES To examine the volume, relevance and quality of transnational tobacco corporations' (TTCs) evidence that standardised packaging of tobacco products 'won't work', following the UK government's decision to 'wait and see' until further evidence is available. DESIGN Content analysis. SETTING We analysed the evidence cited in submissions by the UK's four largest TTCs to the UK Departm...

INTRODUCTION Point-of-sale advertising provides an opportunity for the tobacco industry to communicate with current and potential smokers. The US Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act allows states to implement policies requiring that tobacco products be placed out of sight, and the Food and Drug Administration is considering banning point-of-sale advertising within 1,000 feet of sc...

Despite decades of industry innovation and regulatory efforts, the harmfulness of conventional cigarettes has not changed. There are several pitfalls in this area, including the long time lag before health impacts of product regulatory changes become apparent, the danger of consumers deriving false reassurance of lesser harm in the interim period, the lack of relevant expertise and the lack of ...

OBJECTIVE The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) of November 1998 prohibited participating tobacco companies from directly or indirectly targeting youth in marketing. Widely publicised information in May 2000 showed increased cigarette advertising in magazines with substantial youth readership and companies were pressed to change their practices. The responses of the tobacco industry to the MSA ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the comparability of searches conducted on two publicly available tobacco industry document collections: hard copies housed and maintained by a neutral party in the Minnesota Depository and electronic copies available through tobacco industry maintained websites. METHODS We conducted a set of searches in Minnesota and then conducted the same searches using the industry web...