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: deconstructing the information disseminated by the National Forum Against Piracy and Illegality; The truth about the partnership between Deputy Marcelo Moraes and the tobacco industry; Clearance of Electronic Smoking Devices (EDS): A Threat to Youth Health! and the truth behind ESG strategies: Unmasking the tobacco industry and SindiTabaco.
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: 7 jun. 2023.
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CHINA'S vaping queen is dethroned as Beijing targets tobacco. Financial Times, Inglaterra, 14 fev 2022. Disponível em: https://www.ft.com/content/3e585fd7-4fe3-4b77-af33-e8481fc2e911. Acesso em: 1 jul 2024.
Responsible for the development of the National Health Policy in his native Pakistan, Dr. Ehsan Latif, now based in Scotland, has a long career on the boards of various public health entities and international groups in the field of lung health and tobacco control established under the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control and the World Health Organization including The Framework Convention Alliance, the Non-Communicable Disease Alliance, and most recently (2009-2017) he was senior advisor for noncommunicable diseases and director of tobacco control at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases.
DR. Ehsan Latif: “WHO and FCTC Secretariat cannot sustain their current position”. The Vaping Today, Peru, 8 nov 2021. Disponível em: https://www.thevapingtoday.com/dr-ehsan-latif-who-and-fctc-secretariat-c.... Acesso em: 1 jul 2024.
Background Tobacco companies have maintained a profitable business in Singapore, despite its strong anti-tobacco climate and commitment to protect public health policymaking from tobacco industry interference in line with Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3. This study describes how tobacco companies influence policymaking in a highly regulated environment such as Singapore’s, where there is a strong government commitment to Article 5.3.
van der Eijk Y, Tan GPP Tobacco industry’s ‘behind the scenes’ tactics in Singapore Tobacco Control 2023;32:280-286.
After more than a decade of pressure from increasing government tobacco controls, a growing illicit cigarette economy and changing consumer attitudes towards smoking, South Africa's Tobacco industry was subjected to a twenty-week prohibition on the sale of all raw tobacco leaf, processed tobacco and all manufactured tobacco products under lockdown measures. This led to the industry losing significant market share to illicit cigarette sales. The industry also faced an 8% increase in excise duties and announcements of renewed government efforts to finalise further tobacco controls.
It is not uncommon to find companies that adopt voluntary rules to eliminate or reduce the regulation of government agencies and, therefore, circumvent control measures. The tobacco industry has taken this path, as a way of privileging its agenda. Furthermore, it has used strategies to create a respectable image, as a company interested in the common good, all over the world2. Communication and marketing specialists are hired to reshape the company's image, without necessarily making any objective changes to the company's internal policy.
TURCI, Silvana Rubano Barretto; SILVA, Vera Luiza da Costa e; HALSSEMAN, Luiz Guilherme; KORNALEWSKI, Alex Medeiros; BARATA, Danielle. Responsabilidade social corporativa (RSC) e a indústria de tabaco em tempos de Covid 19. Cetab/Ensp/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, 1 set. 2021.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has secured the 2021 proceeds from the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) with tobacco companies. The historic, multibillion-dollar agreement was signed in 1998 by 46 states and numerous other jurisdictions to settle consumer-protection lawsuits for Americans' health and social costs for smoking.
Arkansas receives $59.3 million in tobacco settlement funds. 5 NEWS, Arkansas, 27 abr 2021. Disponível em: https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/arkansas-receives-593-mil.... Acesso em: 1 jul 2024.
The next time you go for a walk, look at the ground. How many littered cigarette butts do you see? Chances are, more than a few. Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet—4.5 trillion are discarded every year. While cigarette waste may be the most visible form of environmental degradation the tobacco industry contributes to, it’s only one way the industry creates lasting damage to the environment and subsequently, the people who live in it (that’s all of us—smokers and nonsmokers alike).
THE Dirt Behind Big Tobacco and the Environment. STOP, [s.l], 21 abr 2021. Disponível em: https://exposetobacco.org/news/big-tobacco-and-environment/?utm_source=m.... Acesso em: 3 jul 2024.
Na pandemia do Coronavírus, a indústria do fumo se apresenta como a salvadora da crise. Uma tática contraditória, haja vista que o retorno econômico da mesma não se compara aos custos que causa a saúde pública do país.
FALSE Friends: tobacco industry during Corona crisis. Inglaterra, Unfairtobacco, 14 ago. 2020. Disponível em: https://unfairtobacco.org/en/false-friends-tobacco-industry-during-corona-crisis/ . Acesso em: 14 ago 2020.
Documento elaborado pela The Union em parceria com a Tobacco Free-Kids e Johns Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control sobre as condições de interferência da indústria do tabaco nas suas respectivas embalagens padronizadas e regulamentação de rotulagens.
THE UNION et al. Assessing Compliance with Tobacco Packaging and Labeling Regulations. [s.l.], 24 jul. 2020.