In a recent editorial in the British Medical Journal,711 Stanton Glantz, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, described this as yet another catastrophe in the making: “Multinational cigarette companies act as a vector that spreads disease and death throughout the world. This is largely because the tobacco industry uses its wealth to influence politicians to create a favourable environment to promote smoking. The industry does so by minimising restrictions on advertising and promotion and by preventing effective public policies for tobacco control such as high
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