ArticleTobacco control2009
The tobacco industry's thwarting of marketing restrictions and health warnings in Lebanon.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- Global health governance and the commercial sector: a documentary analysis of tobacco company strategies to influence the WHO framework convention on tobacco control.PLoS medicine · 2012Pooled it
- The policy implementation playbook: a cross-policy taxonomy of post-adoption tobacco industry tactics.Globalization and health · 2026Review
- From knowledge production to knowledge translation: Waterpipe tobacco control research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2024Article
- Political Economy of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control in Lebanon: identifying challenges and opportunities for policy change and care provision reforms.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Advocacy counterstrategies to tobacco industry interference in policymaking: a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature.Globalization and health · 2023Article
- The Lebanese Regie state-owned tobacco monopoly: lessons to inform monopoly-focused endgame strategies.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Global Implementation of Tobacco Demand Reduction Measures Specified in Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- Analyzing big tobacco's global youth marketing strategies and factors influencing smoking initiation by Nigeria youths using the theory of triadic influence.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Secondhand smoke knowledge, sources of information, and associated factors among hospital staff.PloS one · 2019Article
- Rhetoric and the law, or the law of rhetoric: How countries oppose novel tobacco control measures at the World Trade Organization.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Article
- The Policy Dystopia Model: An Interpretive Analysis of Tobacco Industry Political Activity.PLoS medicine · 2016Article
- Tobacco industry globalization and global health governance: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda.Palgrave communications · 2016Article
- "Fighting a hurricane": tobacco industry efforts to counter the perceived threat of Islam.American journal of public health · 2015Review
- Chinese Pediatrician Attitudes and Practices Regarding Child Exposure to Secondhand Smoke (SHS) and Clinical Efforts against SHS Exposure.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
- Assessing preferences for a university-based smoking cessation program in Lebanon: a discrete choice experiment.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 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 in the Arab world: old and new epidemics amidst policy paralysis.Health policy and planning · 2014Review
- Global perspective on acute coronary syndrome: a burden on the young and poor.Circulation research · 2014Article
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Abstract
aimsThis article outlines how the tobacco industry has undermined tobacco control efforts in Lebanon since the early 1970s.
methodsAn analysis of online and on-site tobacco industry documents, reviews of newspapers, policy and other documents, and interviews with key policy makers were conducted.
resultsFindings reveal how the weakness of tobacco control legislation in Lebanon has been the product of an effective tobacco industry strategy to weaken the content and scope of regulation, and delay adoption and implementation.
conclusionsThe tobacco industry has built and maintained strong alliances that were and are regularly mobilised to effectively oppose regulation. Despite ratification of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005, Lebanon's tobacco control track remains weak. Public health professionals and the government should work hard to oppose such tobacco industry tactics.
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