Illicit trade, tobacco industry-funded studies and policy influence in the EU and UK
| Autor: | Gary Fooks, Karen Evans-Reeves, Silvy Peeters |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Health (social science)
Public policy Economics Tobacco Industry International trade Tobacco industry Organized financing Humans media_common.cataloged_instance European Union European union Health policy media_common Receipt Packaging and Labelling Industry Watch business.industry Health Policy Research Financing Organized Smoking Tobacco control Commerce Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Advertising United Kingdom 3. Good health Product (business) Illegal tobacco products Crime Business Packaging and labeling |
| Zdroj: | Tobacco Control |
| ISSN: | 1468-3318 0964-4563 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050788 |
| Popis: | In the course of the last decade, the tobacco industry has attempted to increase the political salience of the illicit trade in tobacco products (illicit trade) (box 1).1 ,2 Tobacco companies have claimed that sharp rises in tobacco taxation and innovative regulation, such as standardised packaging and product display bans, are drivers of the illicit trade, and have advocated programmes of engagement with policymakers and other social actors in an effort to ensure that the issue is given greater consideration in health policymaking.2–5 Box 1 ### Major activities comprising the illicit trade in tobacco products.6–8 Transcrime adopts the definition of illicit trade outlined in the World Health Organisation, Framework Convention of Tobacco Control, namely, ‘any practice or conduct prohibited by law and which relates to production, shipment, receipt, possession, distribution, sale or purchase including any practice or conduct intended to facilitate such activity’.6 ,9 This covers |
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