Tobacco industry attempts to undermine tobacco control by recruiting Czech and Polish anti-communist dissidents
Background After the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 state-owned tobacco industry was taken over by transnational tobacco companies (TTCs). TTCs engaged in aggressive lobbying against tobacco control efforts, and targeted key politicians. In Poland and Czechoslovakia (from 1993 Czec...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Publishing
2018-03-01
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Series: | Tobacco Induced Diseases |
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Online Access: | http://www.journalssystem.com/tid/Tobacco-industry-attempts-to-undermine-tobacco-control-by-recruiting-Czech-and-Polish,84561,0,2.html |