Tobacco control is clearly helping to save millions of lives but the scale of the epidemic demands our continued attention and support. Though consumption is declining, smokers are still buying trillions of cigarettes each year and the use of newer tobacco products is increasing in some countries.
Enquanto os governos têm o poder de restringir regulamentos da indústria, infelizmente, o oposto parece ter acontecido nestes tempos difíceis. No muitos países, os governos têm protegido e até promoveu a TI. O tabaco já é o responsável por cerca de 8 milhões de mortes anuais em todo o mundo1 e saúde e as perdas de produtividade custam cerca de US $ 1,4 trilhão todos os anos. No entanto, os governos foram persuadidos a acomodar as demandas e lobby deste prejudicial indústria e aceitar sua caridade, conforme mostrado no Global Índice de Interferência da Indústria do Tabaco 2021 (o Índice).
GLOBAL Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021. Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, Thialand, 2021, nov. 2021. 72p.
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.
O trabalho infantil é uma questão que já faz parte do cultivo de tabaco.A convenção no 182/99 da OIT - Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT) proíbe as o trabalho infantil na agricultura e pressionou a indústria do tabaco a abordar a questão em sua cadeia produtiva. Como resposta, a indústria do tabaco que são empresas transnacionais têm investido em iniciativas de responsabilidade social corporativa (CSR) com foco no trabalho infantil na cultura do tabaco.
TRABALHO infantil na produção de tabaco. Cetab / Ensp/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, 2 jun. 2021.
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World describes itself as “an independent, non-profit organization”1 that was established and is “operated free from the control or influence of any third party”, which “makes grants and supports medical, agricultural, and scientific research to end smoking and its health effects and to address the impact of reduced worldwide demand for tobacco”
A Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) se descreve como “uma organização independente e sem fins lucrativos” que foi estabelecida e “operada livre do controle ou influência de terceiros”, que “faz doações e apóia serviços médicos , agrícola e científica para acabar com o tabagismo e seus efeitos na saúde e para abordar o impacto da redução da demanda mundial por tabaco”
FOUNDATION for a Smoke-Free World People [página eletrônica em inglês]. Tobacco Tactics, Inglaterra, 28 set. 2022. Disponível em: https://tobaccotactics.org/wiki/foundation-for-a-smoke-free-world/. Acesso em: 23 mar. 2023.
relatório do grupo pro-tabaco Forest
RELATÓRIO do grupo pro-tabaco Forest. Tobacco Tatics. Inglaterra, 11 nov 2020. Disponível em: https://tobaccotactics.org/wiki/manifesto-club/. Acesso em: 12 jun 2024.
The Manifesto Club says it “campaigns against the hyper regulation of everyday life. We support free movement across borders, free expression and free association. We challenge booze bans, photo bans, vetting and speech codes – all new ways in which the state regulates everyday life on the streets, in workplaces and in our private lives”.
On 26 June 2007 The Manifesto Club hosted a debate asking “what the smoking ban means for freedom”,and from 2010 was one of several organisations that took part in a series of debates, called Voices of Freedom, at the Institute of Economic Affairs (which has a history of being funded by the tobacco industry) in London, organised by The Free Society (a campaign run by Forest, which is funded by the tobacco industry).
The Manifesto Club has produced reportsin collaboration with Forest which has received funding from major tobacco companies including Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, and Imperial Tobacco.
[referência 11do relatório Defs] : Evans, G. 1982. Letter from Geoffrey to Michael Scott regarding new arrangements between Forest and tobacco companies, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates numbers: 303695982-303695984