Tobacco industry involvement in children’s sugary drinks market

Nguyen, Kim; Glantz, Stanton A.; Palmer, Casey; Schmidt, Laura A.

doi:10.1136/bmj.l736

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“…The benefits achieved from these links include the establishment of synergies across marketing strategies and sharing of data on consumer characteristics. 50 …”

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“…The benefits achieved from these links include the establishment of synergies across marketing strategies and sharing of data on consumer characteristics. 50 For example, Nguyen et al report on the tobacco industry's early diversification into food and drink, highlighting Philip Morris' and RJ Reynolds' stakes in the sugar-sweetened beverage market, acquiring or developing brands such as Kool Aid from the 1960s. 50 Currently, the tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris Companies) owns Ste Michelle Wine Estates 51 and has a considerable stake (about 10%) in alcohol giant ABInBev.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…50 For example, Nguyen et al report on the tobacco industry's early diversification into food and drink, highlighting Philip Morris' and RJ Reynolds' stakes in the sugar-sweetened beverage market, acquiring or developing brands such as Kool Aid from the 1960s. 50 Currently, the tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris Companies) owns Ste Michelle Wine Estates 51 and has a considerable stake (about 10%) in alcohol giant ABInBev. 52 In 2016, ABInBev acquired the South African brewer SABMiller, which until recently bottled and distributed Coca-Cola across many African countries.…”

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The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries

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ObjectivesMost non-communicable diseases are preventable and largely driven by the consumption of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and ultra-processed food and drink products, collectively termed unhealthy commodities. This paper explores the links between unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs), analyses the extent of alignment across their corporate political strategies, and proposes a cohesive systems approach to research across UCIs.MethodsWe held an expert consultation on analysing the involvement of UCIs in public health policy, conducted an analysis of business links across UCIs, and employed taxonomies of corporate political activity to collate, compare and illustrate strategies employed by the alcohol, ultra-processed food and drink products, tobacco and gambling industries.ResultsThere are clear commonalities across UCIs’ strategies in shaping evidence, employing narratives and framing techniques, constituency building and policy substitution. There is also consistent evidence of business links between UCIs, as well as complex relationships with government agencies, often allowing UCIs to engage in policy-making forums. This knowledge indicates that the role of all UCIs in public health policy would benefit from a common approach to analysis. This enables the development of a theoretical framework for understanding how UCIs influence the policy process. It highlights the need for a deeper and broader understanding of conflicts of interests and how to avoid them; and a broader conception of what constitutes strong evidence generated by a wider range of research types.ConclusionUCIs employ shared strategies to shape public health policy, protecting business interests, and thereby contributing to the perpetuation of non-communicable diseases. A cohesive systems approach to research across UCIs is required to deepen shared understanding of this complex and interconnected area and also to inform a more effective and coherent response.

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“…The benefits achieved from these links include the establishment of synergies across marketing strategies and sharing of data on consumer characteristics. 50 …”

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Section: Business Links Across Ucismentioning

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Section: Business Links Across Ucismentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…This study adds to the growing body of research into corporate strategies to deflect responsibility for their role in harmful behaviours within the food, tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries (Knai, Petticrew, Douglas, et al, 2018;Petticrew et al, 2017) and how the corporate sector uses certain, often common, strategies to influence the way public health debates are framed (Moodie, 2017;Nguyen, Glantz, Palmer, & Schmidt, 2019;Nixon et al, 2015;Scott, Hawkins, & Knai, 2017). Commercial interests use many different strategies to thwart regulation or to point towards interventions that do not damage their interests (Gilmore, Savell, & Collin, 2011;Knai et al, 2015;Petticrew et al, 2017).…”

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‘Complexity’ as a rhetorical smokescreen for UK public health inaction on diet

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Thompson

Smith

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Critical Public Health

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Complexity' is theorised as a characteristic of modern food systems that poses a challenge to improving population diets. This paper seeks to explore the discursive deployment of 'complexity' in the context of public health. Doing so helps inform a more critical assessment of commercial and political determinants of health, and of 'complexity' as a prevailing frame for public health issues. Qualitative methods were used to explore 'responsibility' for healthy eating in the food system in the United Kingdom. Discourse analysis was conducted on corporate and government documents, and interviews with industry and government stakeholders. The aim was to examine implications of 'complexity' within discourses of dietary public health. 'Complexity' was used not only to characterise dietary public health problems but also as a rhetorical device in public health narratives. It performed two main discursive functions: firstly, to represent diet-health problems as so multi-layered and difficult that they are intractable. Secondly, and despite this acknowledged complexity, to deflect from food system actions for improving diet to 'simpler' and non-food interventions, by industry and government. These uses of 'complexity' serve to attribute primary responsibility to individuals for dietary choice and to obscure inaction by government and industry, who have most control over the determinants of those choices. In short, 'complexity' can be used discursively to generate a smokescreen masking policy inaction in addressing public health problems.

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“…Scientists have used a variety of approaches to evaluate the effect of financial conflicts of interest on scientific literature. These include investigating the influence of donations from industry on patients’ organizations,19 surveying academic authors of industry funded research,20 and examining tobacco industry documents 21…”

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Association between financial links to indoor tanning industry and conclusions of published studies on indoor tanning: systematic review

Adekunle

Chen

Morrison

et al. 2020

BMJ

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Objective To assess whether an association exists between financial links to the indoor tanning industry and conclusions of indoor tanning literature. Design Systematic review. Data sources PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science, up to 15 February 2019. Study selection criteria Articles discussing indoor tanning and health were eligible for inclusion, with no article type restrictions (original research, systematic reviews, review articles, case reports, editorials, commentaries, and letters were all eligible). Basic science studies, articles describing only indoor tanning prevalence, non-English articles, and articles without full text available were excluded. Results 691 articles were included in analysis, including empiric articles (eg, original articles or systematic reviews) (357/691; 51.7%) and non-empiric articles letters (eg, commentaries, letters, or editorials) (334/691; 48.3%). Overall, 7.2% (50/691) of articles had financial links to the indoor tanning industry; 10.7% (74/691) articles favored indoor tanning, 3.9% (27/691) were neutral, and 85.4% (590/691) were critical of indoor tanning. Among the articles without industry funding, 4.4% (27/620) favored indoor tanning, 3.5% (22/620) were neutral, and 92.1% (571/620) were critical of indoor tanning. Among the articles with financial links to the indoor tanning industry, 78% (39/50) favored indoor tanning, 10% (5/50) were neutral, and 12% (6/50) were critical of indoor tanning. Support from the indoor tanning industry was significantly associated with favoring indoor tanning (risk ratio 14.3, 95% confidence interval 10.0 to 20.4). Conclusions Although most articles in the indoor tanning literature are independent of industry funding, articles with financial links to the indoor tanning industry are more likely to favor indoor tanning. Public health practitioners and researchers need to be aware of and account for industry funding when interpreting the evidence related to indoor tanning. Systematic review registration PROSPERO CRD42019123617.

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Tobacco industry involvement in children’s sugary drinks market

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries

The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries

‘Complexity’ as a rhetorical smokescreen for UK public health inaction on diet

Association between financial links to indoor tanning industry and conclusions of published studies on indoor tanning: systematic review

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