title: [Cigarette smuggling: a wide scope phenomenon only there to serve the interests of big tobacco manufacturers].
abstract: "Cigarette smuggling: a wide scope phenomenon only there to serve the interests of big tobacco manuafacturers" uses industry officials' quotes and documents to describe how tobacco manufacturers are involved in the organisation of smuggling and how manufacturers use smuggling in two ways: on one hand, to flood markets with cheap cigarettes and defeat governements' efforts to reduce tobacco consumption by adopting one of the most efficient public health measures (ie: high taxation of tobacco products) and on the other hand, by using the false threat of increased contraband to scare politicians and prevent them from adopting strong fiscal policies. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) with a protocol on smuggling and the collaboration between international agencies is a means to counter and defeat the tobacco industry attemps at sabotaging efficient public health measures.
authors.affiliation: Coalition Québecoise pour le Contróle du Tubac, Montreal, QC. lgauvin@cqct.qc.ca
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gauvin
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003415:Crime; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D012907:Smoking / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*