This tactic allows them to re-enter the policy arena, where, in theory and legally, they had been previously excluded via article 5.3 of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).8 9 The industry has also been successful in getting media attention for its rhetoric and creating an echo chamber with tobacco companies and their front groups repeating similar, unsubstantiated claims about the illicit trade of cigarettes.10 Industry efforts to disseminate and publicise claims about illicit trade both among policy-makers and the public serve largely to secure their interests and impede progress in tobacco control.11 A growing number of studies expose the tobacco industry tactics around illicit trade and invalidate industry statements about the scope of the problem.12 Some of these studies evaluate the quality of the estimates presented by the tobacco industry and find that industry-funded studies are usually not peer reviewed, rarely methodologically transparent, and almost inevitably suffer from grievous problems with data collection, analytical methods and results interpretation.12 13 Other studies use one of the proven methods to estimate illicit trade and contrast their results with the numbers provided by the tobacco industry
Consumption and production waste: another externality of tobacco use
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In her new role, Ball will play a pivotal part Terramac Expands Dealer Network in Southern Louisiana BROUSSARD, LA Terramac, a manufacturer of rubber track crawler carriers and a wheeled dumper supplier, announces the addition of four new authorized dealers to its growing North American network
