Tobacco industry tactics to retail vendors in Sri Lanka
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Tobacco industry tactics.
The tobacco industry's strong-arm tactics have been used consistently over many years. These tactics include: using the industry's size, wealth, and legal resources to intimidate individuals and local governmental bodies; setting up 'front groups' to make it appear that it has more allies than it really does; spending large sums of money to frame the public debate about smoking regulations arou...
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متن کاملSri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a country with an approximate area of 66 thousand square kilometers (UNO, 2008). The population is 20,409,946 and the sex ratio (men per hundred women) is 98 (UNO, 2009). The proportion of the population under the age of 18 years is 28% and the proportion above age 60 is 8% (UNO, 2009). The literacy rate is 97% for men and 99% for women (UN Statistics, 2008). The life expectancy at...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Induced Diseases
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1617-9625
DOI: 10.18332/tid/84290