Global Health Governance and the Commercial Sector: A Documentary Analysis of Tobacco Company Strategies to Influence the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
PLoS MedicinePublished 26 June 2012Open access
Heide Weishaar, Jeff Collin, Katherine E. Smith, Thilo Grüning, Sema Mandal, Anna Gilmore
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An analysis of internal tobacco industry documents together with other data is done to describe the industry's strategic response to the proposed World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Abstract
TTCs' efforts to undermine the FCTC were comprehensive, demonstrating the global application of tactics that TTCs have previously been found to have employed nationally and further included arguments against the FCTC as a key initiative in global health governance. Awareness of these strategies can help guard against industry efforts to disrupt the implementation of the FCTC and support the development of future, comparable initiatives in global health.
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