Tobacco industry attempts to counter the World Bank report Curbing the Epidemic and obstruct the WHO framework convention on tobacco control.
Tobacco industry attempts to counter the World Bank report Curbing the Epidemic and obstruct the WHO framework convention on tobacco control.
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烟草业试图对抗世界银行《遏制疫情》报告，阻挠世界卫生组织控烟框架公约。
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.062
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2008
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Glantz,Stanton
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Mamudu,HadiiM;Hammond,Ross;Glantz,Stanton
1999年，世界银行发表了一份关于烟草控制经济学的里程碑式研究报告《遏制流行病：各国政府和烟草控制经济学（CTE）得出的结论是，烟草控制带来了前所未有的健康益处，而不会损害经济，威胁到跨国烟草公司利用经济论据劝阻政府颁布烟草控制政策和支持《世卫组织烟草控制框架公约》的能力，烟草控制框架公约。我们使用烟草行业的文件来分析烟草公司如何诋毁CTE。他们聘请公关公司，让学者批评CTE，聘请顾问对烟草对国民经济的重要性进行“独立”评估，并通过前线团体，特别是国际烟草种植者协会，质疑CTE的调查结果。这些努力都失败了，该报告仍然是正在进行的FCTC谈判期间对全球烟草控制的权威经济分析。烟草业的失败表明，世界银行应继续其关于烟草控制经济学的分析工作，并将烟草控制作为其发展议程的一部分。
In 1999 the World Bank published a landmark study on the economics of tobacco control, Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control (CTE), which concluded that tobacco control brings unprecedented health benefits without harming economies, threatening the transnational tobacco companies' ability to use economic arguments to dissuade governments from enacting tobacco control policies and supporting the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). We used tobacco industry documents to analyze how tobacco companies worked to discredit CTE. They hired public relations firms, had academics critique CTE, hired consultants to produce “independent” estimates of the importance of tobacco to national economies, and worked through front groups, particularly the International Tobacco Growers' Association, to question CTE's findings. These efforts failed, and the report remains an authoritative economic analysis of global tobacco control during the ongoing FCTC negotiations. The industry's failure suggests that the World Bank should continue their analytic work on the economics of tobacco control and make tobacco control part of its development agenda.