New Vital Strategies Report: Crooked Nine: Nine Ways the Tobacco Industry Undermines Health Policy. New York, NY. Sept 2019
This 55-page report of Vital Strategies in collaboration with STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) partners lays out nine strategies of the tobacco industry including: 1) the third party technique, 2) weakening the public health community, 3) disputing and suppressing public health information, 4) producing and disseminating misleading research and information, 5) directly lobbying and influencing policy makers, 6) influencing upstream policies (such as trade treaties), 7) litigation or threatening litigation, 8) producing confusion around tobacco smuggling, and 9) managing and enhancing its own reputation so it can influence policy.
https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Crooked-9-STOP.pdf
by Dr.Stephen Hamann