2019
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054668
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Memoranda of understanding: a tobacco industry strategy to undermine illicit tobacco trade policies

Abstract: ObjectiveAnalyse the transnational tobacco companies’ (TTCs) memoranda of understanding (MoUs) on illicit trade and how they could undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (Protocol).MethodsReview of tobacco industry documents and websites, reports, news and media items using standard snowball search methods.ResultsFacing increasing pressure from governments and the FCTC to address illicit tobacco trade during the late 1990… Show more

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“…Building on this argument, the industry has often managed to present itself as an integral partner to the government in combating illicit trade. This tactic allows them to re-enter the policy arena, where, in theory and legally, they had been previously excluded via article 5.3 of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 8 9. The industry has also been successful in getting media attention for its rhetoric and creating an echo chamber with tobacco companies and their front groups repeating similar, unsubstantiated claims about the illicit trade of cigarettes 10.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Building on this argument, the industry has often managed to present itself as an integral partner to the government in combating illicit trade. This tactic allows them to re-enter the policy arena, where, in theory and legally, they had been previously excluded via article 5.3 of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 8 9. The industry has also been successful in getting media attention for its rhetoric and creating an echo chamber with tobacco companies and their front groups repeating similar, unsubstantiated claims about the illicit trade of cigarettes 10.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This tactic allows them to re-enter the policy arena, where, in theory and legally, they had been previously excluded via article 5.3 of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). 8 9 The industry has also been successful in getting media attention for its rhetoric and creating an echo chamber with tobacco companies and their front groups repeating similar, unsubstantiated claims about the illicit trade of cigarettes. 10 Industry efforts to disseminate and publicise claims about illicit trade both among policy-makers and the public serve largely to secure their interests and impede progress in tobacco control.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such documents have been signed by all four of the tobacco companies in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, as well as by British American Tobacco and Phillip Morris in Ghana and by British American Tobacco in Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Mauritius and Zambia. 8 These memoranda of understanding have helped establish productive relations with governments and helped pre-empt more restrictive government regulations concerning illicit trade. 8 Such agreements, because of their lack of transparency and enforcement mechanisms, also undermine the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, which entered into force in 2018 and requires the establishment of a global tracking and tracing system, supply chain licensing and special investigative techniques.…”
Section: Illicit Trade and Smugglingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Any efforts to improve tobacco control in the EMR must take into account the strong presence of the (multi-national and national) tobacco industry. Alliances between governments and the tobacco industry are clear (18). The industry is also exploiting the lack of stability that exists in many parts of the Region (19).…”
Section: The Way Forwardmentioning
confidence: 99%