Nigeria: how British American Tobacco undermines the WHO FCTC through agricultural initiatives: invited commentary
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Through tobacco industry eyes: civil society and the FCTC process from Philip Morris and British American Tobacco's perspectives.
OBJECTIVE To analyse the models Philip Morris (PM) and British American Tobacco (BAT) used internally to understand tobacco control non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationship to the global tobacco control policy-making process that resulted in the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). METHODS Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents in the Legacy Tobacco Do...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Control
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0964-4563,1468-3318
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050411