New Report on Tobacco Industry Interference in Asia since 2020
New Report on Tobacco Industry Interference in Asia since 2020 shows interference increasing,India and Thailand had some improvement in preventing interference but overall there is a greater deterioration in measures to control interference in the 18 countries rated on 6 measures. “In comparison with their 2020 scores, five (5) countries marginally improved, four (4) remained unchanged, while nine (9) countries showed deterioration….”
Comment: Conditions like the Covid-19 pandemic provide the tobacco industry an opportunity to influence health policy, sometimes distracting from tobacco control as a major contributor to non-communicable diseases.
Asia Report on TI interference 2021; https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/AsianTIIIndexReport2021.pdf
Stephen Hamann
