abstract: 'The tobacco industry''s future depends on increasing tobacco use in

  low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), which face a growing

  burden of tobacco-related disease, yet have potential to prevent

  full-scale escalation of this epidemic. To drive up sales the industry

  markets its products heavily, deliberately targeting non-smokers and

  keeps prices low until smoking and local economies are sufficiently

  established to drive prices and profits up. The industry systematically

  flaunts existing tobacco control legislation and works aggressively to

  prevent future policies using its resource advantage to present highly

  misleading economic arguments, rebrand political activities as corporate

  social responsibility, and establish and use third parties to make its

  arguments more palatable. Increasingly it is using domestic litigation

  and international arbitration to bully LMICs from implementing effective

  policies and hijacking the problem of tobacco smuggling for policy gain,

  attempting to put itself in control of an illegal trade in which there

  is overwhelming historical evidence of its complicity. Progress will not

  be realised until tobacco industry interference is actively addressed as

  outlined in Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

  Exemplar LMICs show this action can be achieved and indicate that

  exposing tobacco industry misconduct is an essential first step.'
affiliation: 'Gilmore, AB (Corresponding Author), Univ Bath, Dept Hlth, Bath BA2 7AY,
  Avon, England.

  Gilmore, Anna B.; Fooks, Gary; Jackson, Rachel Rose, Univ Bath, Dept Hlth, Bath
  BA2 7AY, Avon, England.

  Gilmore, Anna B.; Fooks, Gary; Jackson, Rachel Rose, Univ Bath, UK Ctr Tobacco \&
  Alcohol Studies, Bath BA2 7AY, Avon, England.

  Drope, Jeffrey, Amer Canc Soc, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA.

  Drope, Jeffrey, Marquette Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Milwaukee, WI 53233 USA.

  Bialous, Stella Aguinaga, Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Nursing, Social \& Behav
  Sci, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA.'
author: Gilmore, Anna B. and Fooks, Gary and Drope, Jeffrey and Bialous, Stella Aguinaga
  and Jackson, Rachel Rose
author-email: a.gilmore@bath.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Gilmore
  given: Anna B.
- family: Fooks
  given: Gary
- family: Drope
  given: Jeffrey
- family: Bialous
  given: Stella Aguinaga
- family: Jackson
  given: Rachel Rose
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60312-9
eissn: 1474-547X
files: []
issn: 0140-6736
journal: LANCET
keywords-plus: 'CONTROL POLICIES; FRAMEWORK CONVENTION; FCTC IMPLEMENTATION; GOVERNMENT

  REVENUE; PUBLIC-HEALTH; TRADE-POLICY; INTERFERENCE; LEGISLATION;

  COMPANIES; EXAMPLE'
language: English
month: MAR 14
number: '9972'
number-of-cited-references: '185'
orcid-numbers: gilmore, anna B/0000-0003-0281-1248
pages: 1029-1043
papis_id: 6777849d87addac93fddec8fde5094f4
ref: Gilmore2015tobaccofreeworld
researcherid-numbers: 'Pavananunt, Pirudee/E-7537-2015

  gilmore, anna B/I-7130-2012'
times-cited: '153'
title: Tobacco-free world 3 Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income
  and middle-income countries
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000350886900035
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '37'
volume: '385'
web-of-science-categories: Medicine, General \& Internal
year: '2015'