Countering Critics

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.

Segundo a OMS, O tabaco mata mais de 8 milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo a cada ano. Mais de 7 milhões dessas mortes são decorrentes do uso direto do tabaco e cerca de 1,2 milhão se deve ao fato de os não fumantes serem expostos ao fumo passivo. Em contrapartida, indústrias de tabaco e notícias diversas por vezes discorrem sobre a possibilidade, apesar da ausência de dados científicos, de que o consumo do tabaco pode aliviar ou mesmo dificultar a contaminação por corona vírus.

This essay seeks to describe the efforts made to portray the “reality of smuggling” in Brazil by analyzing the instruments and the strategies of the actors involved in these efforts, such as the Institute for Social and Economic Development of the Borders (IDESF), the National Forum Against Piracy and Illegality (FNCP), the Brazilian Institute for Ethics in Competition (ETCO), and the Brazilian Association for Combating Counterfeiting (ABCF). Smuggling has emerged as a critical topic in the agenda of the antipiracy coalition, and is associated with certain spaces, actors, and dynamics that define its key circuits, both territorially and socially: land borders (especially with Paraguay) traversed by commercial circuits that feed popular markets. By contemplating the actors, performances, instruments, and variables chosen to compose the figures of smuggling, it is possible to appreciate the agenda that is being put forward and the effects on the government and management of those circuits.

Relatório que analisa os dados de investimento e impacto da publicidade empregada pela indústria de tabaco Philip Morris.