ReviewTobacco control2004
The Philippine tobacco industry: "the strongest tobacco lobby in Asia".
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Tobacco Industry Tactics in Southeast Asia: Lessons for Other Low- And MiddleIncome Regions.International journal of health policy and management · 2021Pooled it
- How does the tobacco industry attempt to influence marketing regulations? A systematic review.PloS one · 2014Pooled it
- The vector of the tobacco epidemic: tobacco industry practices in low and middle-income countries.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2012Pooled it
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- Greater smoking intensity may be linked to early smoking initiation among Filipinos: Evidence from the 2021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey Philippines.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2024Article
- Inequities in surgical outcomes by race and sex in the United States: retrospective cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2023Article
- Strategies used by the soft drink industry to grow and sustain sales: a case-study of The Coca-Cola Company in East Asia.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Health Taxes on Tobacco, Alcohol, Food and Drinks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review of Policy Content, Actors, Process and Context.International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- Evidence on article 5.3 of FCTC (tobacco industry interference in tobacco control activities) in India- a qualitative scoping study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- The battle to increase tobacco taxes: Lessons from Philippines and Ukraine.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Exceeding WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Obligations: Nepal Overcoming Tobacco Industry Interference to Enact a Comprehensive Tobacco Control Policy.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Big Tobacco, Alcohol, and Food and NCDs in LMICs: An Inconvenient Truth and Call to Action Comment on "Addressing NCDs: Challenges From Industry Market Promotion and Interferences".International journal of health policy and management · 2019Article
- How Menthol Is Key to the Tobacco Industry's Strategy of Recruiting and Retaining Young Smokers in Singapore.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019Article
- Menthol and flavor capsule cigarettes in the Philippines: A comparison of pack design.Tobacco induced diseases · 2019Article
- Low prevalence of human papillomavirus in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in the northwest region of the Philippines.PloS one · 2017Article
- SEATCA Tobacco Industry Interference Index: a tool for measuring implementation of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3.Tobacco control · 2016Article
- Implementation of graphic health warning labels on tobacco products in India: the interplay between the cigarette and the bidi industries.Tobacco control · 2015Article
- Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries.Lancet (London, England) · 2015Article
- Implementation of effective cigarette health warning labels among low and middle income countries: state capacity, path-dependency and tobacco industry activity.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Article
- Tobacco industry argues domestic trademark laws and international treaties preclude cigarette health warning labels, despite consistent legal advice that the argument is invalid.Tobacco control · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo highlight revelations from internal tobacco industry documents about the conduct of the industry in the Philippines since the 1960s. Areas explored include political corruption, health, employment of consultants, resisting pack labelling, and marketing and advertising.
methodsSystematic keyword Minnesota depository website searches of tobacco industry internal documents made available through the Master Settlement Agreement.
resultsThe Philippines has long suffered a reputation for political corruption where collusion between state and business was based on the exchange of political donations for favourable economic policies. The tobacco industry was able to limit the effectiveness of proposed anti-tobacco legislation. A prominent scientist publicly repudiated links between active and passive smoking and disease. The placement of health warning labels was negotiated to benefit the industry, and the commercial environment allowed it to capitalise on their marketing freedoms to the fullest potential. Women, children, youth, and the poor have been targeted.
conclusionThe politically laissez faire Philippines presented tobacco companies with an environment ripe for exploitation. The Philippines has seen some of the world's most extreme and controversial forms of tobacco promotion flourish. Against international standards of progress, the Philippines is among the world's slowest nations to take tobacco control seriously.
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