Tobacco Industry: Manipulating the Youth into a Lifelong Addiction

November 2020 The tobacco industry causes a net loss to the global economy, annually costing USD 1.4 trillion in economic losses  and killing 8 million people; with a disproportionate impact in developing nations as over [...]

Request for Cooperation of Educational Institutes to Not Accept Any Sponsorships or Support from the Tobacco Industry (2019)

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health letter to the Ministry of Education  Read more: Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health [...]

How Much Does it Cost to Receive Donations from the Tobacco Industry? Art. 5.3 of the WHO FCTC – The Protection of Public Tobacco Control Policies (2018)

Introduction Selling cigarettes and other tobacco products is the purpose of tobacco companies and, like any company, its biggest goal is to increase profits and expand its market share. However, in the twentieth century alone, [...]

Implementation of Article 5.3 to Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking (2018)

Author: Raouf Alebshehy Read more: WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean  [...]

Hijacking ‘Sustainability’ from the SDGs: Review of Tobacco-Related CSR Activities in the ASEAN Region (2017)

Introduction As the ASEAN region becomes more aware of the deadly effects of tobacco and governments step up regulation of the industry, tobacco companies are resorting to more below-the-line tactics to promote their corporate name [...]

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Policy Élites: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents (2011)

Authors: Gary J. Fooks et al. Abstract Background: Recent attempts by large tobacco companies to represent themselves as socially responsible have been widely dismissed as image management. Existing research supports such claims by pointing to [...]

Behind the Scenes: The Inherent Contradiction Behind Big Tobacco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (2004)

Can the tobacco industry be trusted? Can its money play a useful role in funding programmes meant to prevent youth smoking, or advance scientific research? Under the guise of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the major [...]

Tobacco Industry and Corporate Responsibility… An Inherent Contradiction (2004)

This document has been developed by WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative, Pursuant to WHA Resolution 54.18, Transparency in Tobacco Control Process, that “calls on WHO to continue to inform member states on activities of the tobacco [...]

Tobacco Industry Efforts to Erode Tobacco Advertising Controls in Hungary (2004)

Authors: Tibor Szilagyi and Shaun Chapma Abstract Objective: To review strategies of transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) at creating a favourable advertising environment for their products in Hungary, with special regard to efforts resulting in the liberalisation [...]

Tobacco Industry Attempts to Subvert European Union Tobacco Advertising Legislation (2002)

Authors: Asaf Bitton et al. Abstract Beginning with the Europe Against Cancer Action Program in 1985, the European Economic Community (EEC), which was later renamed the European Community (EC) with its incorporation into the new [...]