Highlights18

Summary:

Highlights with topics considered to be of note in order to promote debates and decision-making in the context of tobacco control. In this edition, the agenda deals with: the Tobacco Industry's lobby for the Regulation of Electronic Smoking Devices (EDSs); tax reform: an important step for Public Health; a critical look at the tobacco industry and DEFs: a growing danger for passive smokers indoors.

001548b.pdf

place of publication:

Rio de Janeiro

Publication date:

Monday, 31 July, 2023

Year of publication:

2023

Reference:

KORNALEWSKI, Alex Medeiros; CARVALHO, Alexandre Octavio Ribeiro de; BARATA, Danielle; HASSELMANN, Luis Guilherme; TURCI, Silvana Rubano. Destaques do Observatório sobre as Estratégias da Indústria do Tabaco. Cetab/Ensp/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, jul. 2023. Acesso em: 31 jul. 2023.

Format:

Digital

Library category:

Highlights

Strategies and tactics:

Manoeuvering to hijack the political and legislative process

Lobbying decision makers

Legal Tactics

Exaggerating the economic importance of the industry

Countering Critics

Manipulating public opinion to gain the appearance of respectability

Intimidating governments with litigation or the threat of litigation