Tobacco industry successfully prevented tobacco control legislation in Argentina
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Tobacco industry successfully prevented tobacco control legislation in Argentina.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate how transnational tobacco companies, working through their local affiliates, influenced tobacco control policymaking in Argentina between 1966 and 2005. METHODS Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents, local newspapers and magazines, internet resources, bills from the Argentinean National Congress Library, and interviews with key individuals in Argentina. RESUL...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Control
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0964-4563
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2005.011130