Papers on Tobacco Industry Interference

By Country

Country	Title of Paper	Author	Year
Argentina	Tobacco industry successfully prevented tobacco control legislation in Argentina	Sebrie EM, Barnoya J, Perez-Stable EJ, Glantz SA	2005
Australia	“Avoid health warnings on all tobacco products just as long as we can”: A history of Australian tobacco industry efforts to avoid, delay and dilute health warnings on cigarettes	Chapman S, Carter M	2003
Canada	Plot against plain packaging	Physicians for Smoke-Free Canada	2008
China (Hong Kong)	“A phony way to show sincerity, as we all well know”: Tobacco industry lobbying against tobacco control in Hong Kong	Knight J, Chapman S	2004
Costa Rica	Tobacco industry success in Costa Rica: The importance of FCTC Article 5.3	Crosbie E, et al.	2012
Czech Republic	Tobacco Industry Manipulation of Tobacco Excise and Tobacco Advertising Policies in the Czech Republic: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents	Shirane R, Smith K, Ross H, Silver KE, Williams S, et al.	2012
Egypt	Voice of Truth	WHO EMRO	2008
Germany	Tobacco industry attempts to influence and use the German government to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	Grüning T, et al.	2011
Hungary	Tobacco industry efforts to erode tobacco advertising controls in Hungary	Szilagyi T, Chapman S	2004
Japan	Lightning up the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A case study of U.S. tobacco industry political influence buying in Japan	Levin M	2008
Kenya	Tobacco industry interference in Kenya: Exposing the tactics	Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MoPH&S) and International Institute for Legislative Affairs (ILA)	2013
Lebanon	The tobacco industry’s thwarting of marketing restrictions and health warnings in Lebanon	Nakkash R, Lee K.	2009
Lebanon	Tobacco industry strategies in Lebanon: An analysis of internal tobacco industry documents	Nakkash R	2007
Malawi	Tobacco companies’ use of developing countries’ economic reliance on tobacco to lobby against global tobacco control: The case of Malawi	Otañez MG, et al.	2009
Malaysia	A mire of highly subjective and ineffective voluntary guidelines: Tobacco industry efforts to thwart tobacco control in Malaysia	Assunta M, Chapman S	2004
Namibia	Tobacco control in Namibia: The importance of government capacity, media coverage and industry interference	Tam J, van Walbeek C	2014
Netherlands	The devil is in the detail: Tobacco industry political influence in the Dutch implementation of the 2001 EU Tobacco Products Directive	Jessamina Lih Yan Lie, et al.	2016
Nigeria	Avoiding “A Massive Spin-Off Effect in West Africa and Beyond”: The tobacco industry stymies tobacco control in Nigeria	Egbe CO, et al.	2017
Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands	Supporting Pacific Island countries to strengthen their resistance to tobacco industry interference in tobacco control: A case study of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands	McCool J, et al.	2013
Poland	Tobacco industry interference with tobacco control policies in Poland: Legal aspects and industry practices	Balwicki L, et al.	2016
Russia	Sectors of the Russian economy that would benefit from reduced cigarette sales	Merrill RM, Castleton RA	2009
South Africa	Tobacco Excise Taxation in South Africa	van Walbeek C	2003
South Korea	What hinders implementation of the WHO FCTC Article 5.3? – The case of South Korea	Lee S.	2016
Soviet Union	Moving East: How the transnational tobacco industry gained entry to the emerging markets of the former Soviet Union part II: An overview of priorities and tactics used to establish a manufacturing presence	Gilmore A, McKee M	2004
United Kingdom	A critical evaluation of the volume, relevance and quality of evidence submitted by the tobacco industry to oppose standardized packaging of tobacco products	Hatchard JL, Fooks GJ, Evans-Reeves KA, Ulucanlar S, Gilmore AB	2014
United States	Tobacco industry’s T.O.T.A.L. interference	Henriksen L, Mahoney M	2018
Uzbekistan	British American tobacco’s erosion of health legislation in Uzbekistan	Gilmore AB, Collin J, McKee M	2006
Uzbekistan	Transnational tobacco company influence on tax policy during privatization of a state monopoly: British American Tobacco and Uzbekistan	Gilmore A, Collin J, Townsend J	2007

By Region

Region	Title of Paper	Author	Year
Europe	The revision of the 2014 European tobacco products directive: An analysis of the tobacco industry’s attempts to ‘break the health silo’	Peeters S, Costa H, Stuckler D, McKee M, Gilmore AB	2015
Europe	Tobacco industry interference in the WHO European region	Olsen C	2012
Europe	“Working the System”—British American Tobacco’s influence on the European Union treaty and its implications for policy: An analysis of internal tobacco industry documents	Smith KE, et al.	2010
Europe	Block, amend, delay: Tobacco industry efforts to influence the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (2001/37/EC)	Smith KE, Fooks G, Collin J, Weishaar H, Mandal S, Gilmore AB	2010
Europe	Tobacco industry attempts to subvert European Union tobacco advertising legislation	Bitton A, et al.	2002
Latin America	Tobacco industry “Youth smoking prevention” programs to undermine meaningful tobacco control in Latin America	Sebrie EM, Glantz SA	2007
Middle East	Voices of Truth, vol. 2: Multinational Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East: A review of Internal Industry Documents	Hammond R, White CM	2001

Other papers on tobacco industry interference:

Bialous, Stella (2019). Impact of implementation of the WHO FCTC on the tobacco industry’s behaviour. Tobacco Control.
Guo, Hanbing (2018). Tobacco product regulation and tobacco industry interference. In: Yang, Gonghuan (ed.). Tobacco control in China. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Gulland, Anne (2017). WHO urges countries to fight tobacco industry’s interference. British Medical Journal.
Assunta, Mary & Dorotheo, E. Ulysses (2016). SEATCA Tobacco Industry Interference Index: A tool for measuring implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3. Tobacco Control.
Smith J & Lee K (2016). Protecting the plain packaging consultation from tobacco industry interference. Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Steele SL, Gilmore AB, McKee M, Stuckler D (2016). The role of public law-based litigation in tobacco companies’ strategies in high-income, FCTC ratifying countries, 2004–14. Journal of Public Health.
Gilmore AB, Fooks G, Drope J, Bialous SA, Jackson RR (2015). Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet.
Savell E, Gilmore AB, Fooks G (2014). How Does the Tobacco Industry Attempt to Influence Marketing Regulations? A Systematic Review. PLoS ONE.
Ulucanlar S, Fooks GJ, Hatchard JL, Gilmore AB (2014). Representation and Misrepresentation of Scientific Evidence in Contemporary Tobacco Regulation: A Review of Tobacco Industry Submissions to the UK Government Consultation on Standardised Packaging. PLoS Medicine.
WHO FCTC (‎2014)‎. Implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC: Evolving issues related to interference by the tobacco industry. Report of the Convention Secretariat to the Conference of the Parties, sixth session.
WHO EMRO (2014). Protecting tobacco control from tobacco industry interference.
Bump JB, Reich MR (2013). Political economy analysis for tobacco control in low- and middle-income countries. Health Policy Plan.
Lin, Tsai-yu (2013). Preventing tobacco companies’ interference with tobacco control through investor-state dispute settlement under the TPP. Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy.
Mackey TK, Liang BA, Novotny TE (2013). Evolution of Tobacco Labelling and Packaging: International Legal Considerations and Health Governance. American Journal of Public Health.
Smith KE, Savell E, Gilmore AB (2013). What is known about tobacco industry efforts to influence tobacco tax? A systematic review of empirical studies. Tobacco Control.
Assunta, Mary (2012). Tobacco industry’s ITGA fights FCTC implementation in the Uruguay negotiations. Tobacco Control.
Charoenca, Naowarut, et al. (2012). Success counteracting tobacco company interference in Thailand: An example of FCTC implementation for low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Lee S, Ling PM, Glantz SA (2012). The vector of the tobacco epidemic: Tobacco industry practices in low and middle-income countries. Cancer Causes Control.
Weishaar H, Collin J, Smith K, Gruening T, Mandal S, Gilmore A (2012). Global Health Governance and the Commercial Sector: A Documentary Analysis of Tobacco Company Strategies to Influence the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. PLoS Medicine.
Oswal KC, Pednekar MS, Gupta PC (2010). Tobacco industry interference for pictorial warnings. Indian Journal of Cancer.
Hurt RD, Ebbert JO, Muggli ME, Lockhart NJ, Robertson CR (2009). Open doorway to truth: Legacy of the Minnesota tobacco trial. Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
World Health Organization (2009). Tobacco industry interference with tobacco control.
Stillman F, et al. (2008). Mapping tobacco industry strategies in South East Asia for action planning and surveillance. Tobacco Control.
Wakefield M & Liberman J (2008). Back to the future: Tobacco industry interference, evidence and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco Control.
Apollonio DE, Bero LA (2007). The creation of industry front groups: The tobacco industry and “get government off our back”. American Journal of Public Health.
Saloojee Y, Dagli E (2000). Tobacco industry tactics for resisting public policy on health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.