For at least the past 50 years and more, the tobacco industry has been a welcome target! Most of it is propaganda and demagoguery!
Smokers have been persecuted and treated almost like outcasts or criminals in many Western countries!
Let vices be vices! Humans are not perfect!
Sin taxes are a sin!
"Aggressive tobacco industry tactics have beat back legislation against its products and garnered support from multiple countries in the past two years, according to a report released this morning that tracks industry interference.
Tactics: Industry has won favor by paying for junkets (such as visiting Philip Morris International’s facility in Switzerland), promising investment and jobs, and showcasing corporate social responsibility projects that draw attention from its negative impacts.
Big Tobacco wins:
- Legislative leaders in 14 countries have filed pro-industry bills or delayed passage of new anti-tobacco laws, per the report by the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control and STOP, an industry watchdog.
- 20 countries have signed memorandums of understanding with tobacco companies to tackle tobacco smuggling.
- 10 countries have delayed or rejected tax increases.
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