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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, M.G.
  • Mamudu, H.M.
  • Glantz, S.A.

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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 fromthe 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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  • Otañez, M.G. & Mamudu, H.M. & Glantz, S.A., 2009. "Tobacco companies' use of developing countries' economic reliance on tobacco to lobby against global tobacco control: The case of Malawi," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 99(10), pages 1759-1771.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2008.146217_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.146217
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