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Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization

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Evidence from tobacco industry documents reveals that tobacco companies have operated for many years with the deliberate purpose of subverting the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO) to control tobacco use. The attempted subversion has been elaborate, well financed, sophisticated, and usually invisible.

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  • Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents, World Health Organization, 2000. "Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization," University of California at San Francisco, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education qt83m9c2wt, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC San Francisco.
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