ReviewGlobal public health2011
A review of the impacts of tobacco industry privatisation: Implications for policy.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Changes in Price, Consumption, Prevalence, and State Revenue of Transitioning Cigarette Sales to State-Controlled Outlets.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- A multi-country analysis of transnational tobacco companies' market share.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Article
- The Lebanese Regie state-owned tobacco monopoly: lessons to inform monopoly-focused endgame strategies.BMC public health · 2022Article
- 'They have a right to participate as a stakeholder': Article 5.3 implementation and government interactions with the tobacco industry in Ethiopia.Tobacco control · 2022Article
- International investment liberalization, transnational corporations and NCD prevention policy non-decisions: a realist review on the political economy of tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed food.Globalization and health · 2021Review
- Advertising Restrictions and Market Concentration in the Cigarette Industry: A Cross-Country Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Tobacco industry's elaborate attempts to control a global track and trace system and fundamentally undermine the Illicit Trade Protocol.Tobacco control · 2019Article
- Tobacco control and prevention efforts in Ethiopia pre- and post-ratification of WHO FCTC: Current challenges and future directions.Tobacco induced diseases · 2019Article
- Parental transmission of smoking among middle-aged and older populations in Russia and Belarus.International journal of public health · 2018Article
- Anti-tobacco control industry strategies in Turkey.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Disentangling regional trade agreements, trade flows and tobacco affordability in sub-Saharan Africa.Globalization and health · 2017Article
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- Controlling corporate influence in health policy making? An assessment of the implementation of article 5.3 of the World Health Organization framework convention on tobacco control.Globalization and health · 2017Article
- Is trade liberalisation a vector for the spread of sugar-sweetened beverages? A cross-national longitudinal analysis of 44 low- and middle-income countries.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Article
- A Public Health Framework for Legalized Retail Marijuana Based on the US Experience: Avoiding a New Tobacco Industry.PLoS medicine · 2016Article
- Tobacco Control in Turkey.Turkish thoracic journal · 2015Article
- Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries.Lancet (London, England) · 2015Article
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Abstract
State-owned tobacco companies, which still account for 40% of global cigarette production, face continued pressure from, among others, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to be privatised. This review of available literature on tobacco industry privatisation suggests that any economic benefits of privatisation may be lower than supposed, because private owners avoid competitive tenders (thus underpaying for assets), negotiate lengthy tax holidays and are complicit in the smuggling of cigarettes to avoid import and excise duties. It outlines how privatisation leads to increased marketing, more effective distribution and lower prices, creating additional demand for cigarettes among new and existing smokers, leading to increased cigarette consumption, higher smoking prevalence and lower age of smoking initiation. Privatisation also weakens tobacco control because private owners, in their drive for profits, lobby aggressively against effective policies and ignore or overturn existing policies. This evidence suggests that further tobacco industry privatisation is likely to increase smoking and that instead of transferring assets from state to private ownership, alternative models of supply should be explored.
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