(Tobacco Industry) Twitter activity around the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework …
Robertson L, et al. Exploring the (Tobacco Industry) Twitter activity around the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tob Control. 2020 Nov 11; tobaccocontrol-2020-055889. Online ahead of print.
“Tobacco companies’ intentions to influence the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) via the Conference of Parties (COP; the official biannual meeting where Parties review the Convention) are well documented… The nature of the activity on Twitter around COP8, including a substantial online presence by PMI [Philip Morris International] executives and NGP [next-generation products] advocates with links to organizations funded directly and indirectly by PMI, is highly consistent with PMI’s 2014 corporate affairs strategy, which described engaging tobacco harm reduction advocates to ‘amplify and leverage the debate on harm reduction’ around events such as the COP.”
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/06/tobaccocontrol-2020-055889
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/tobaccocontrol/early/2020/11/06/tobaccocontrol-2020-055889.full.pdf
Stephen Hamann
