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Tobacco Companies’ Use of Developing Countries’ Economic Reliance on Tobacco to Lobby Against Global Tobacco Control: The Case of Malawi

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Otañez, Martin G., Mamudu, Hadii M., Glantz, Stanton A.·2009·American Journal of Public Health
DOI 10.2105/ajph.2008.146217PMC PMC2741530
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Transnational tobacco manufacturing and tobacco leaf companies engage in numerous efforts to oppose global tobacco control. One of their strategies is to stress the economic importance of tobacco to the developing countries that grow it. We analyze tobacco industry documents and ethnographic data to show how tobacco companies used this argument in the case of Malawi, producing and disseminating reports promoting claims of losses of jobs and foreign earnings that would result from the impending passage of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In addition, they influenced the government of Malawi to introduce resolutions or make amendments to tobacco-related resolutions in meetings of United Nations organizations, succeeding in temporarily displacing health as the focus in tobacco control policymaking. However, these efforts did not substantially weaken the FCTC.

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    “Members of the Chinese delegation were upset about receiving Dirty Ashtray Awards, suggesting that the FCA activities had some impact on them31.”

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    The Results discuss Malawi’s delegation and identify a Malawian group as a member of the Framework Convention Alliance, but do not describe Dirty Ashtray Awards or the Chinese delegation’s reaction. Searches for the award and for Chinese delegates being upset found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.73)

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    “Members of the Chinese delegation were upset about receiving Dirty Ashtray Awards, suggesting that the FCA activities had some impact on them31.”

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    The Results discuss the Framework Convention Alliance’s member organization in Malawi and its activities, but do not describe Chinese delegates receiving Dirty Ashtray Awards or their reaction. Searches for the awards and for an impact on the Chinese delegation found no passage addressing either point. (LLM, conf=0.77)

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Authors
Otañez, M. G., Mamudu, H. M., & Glantz, S. A.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
ORCID
Venue
American Journal of Public Health
Publisher
American Public Health Association
Published
2009-10
Volume
99
Issue
10
Pages
1759-1771
ISSN
  • 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1541-0048
DOI
10.2105/ajph.2008.146217
PMC
PMC2741530
OpenAlex
W2165731800
Cited by
100
References
0
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FWCI
11.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • American Cancer Society
  • National Cancer Institute (CA113710, R25CA113710, R01CA087472, T32CA113710, CA 87472)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Social Sciences › Health › Occupational Health and Global Justice
Keywords
tobacco industry lobbying, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, developing countries, tobacco control, Malawi
MeSH terms
Smoking Prevention, Developing Countries, Health Policy, Humans, Malawi, Politics, Public Policy, Smoking, Nicotiana, Global Health, Tobacco Industry, Internationality

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