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Behind the scenes: The inherent contradiction behind big tobacco's corporate social responsibility
© World Health Organization 2004
"Tobacco and poverty" is a package developed for the World No Tobacco Day 2004 campaign. "Behind the scenes: The inherent contradiction behind big tobacco’s corporate social responsibility" reveals the misleading claims made by the tobacco companies to redefine themselves as responsible corporate citizens. While claiming to have changed their marketing practices, the companies are actually increasing their marketing expenditures, often in ways most effective at reaching young people. The companies are still promoting bogus health campaigns that do not work, and continue to oppose regulation of their product in a manner similar to the regulation of other consumer products.
The tobacco industry documents: What they are, what they tell us, and how to search them: A practical manual
© World Health Organization 2002
This publication tells the story of how a powerful industry was forced by US courts to reveal its innermost secret documents, documents that explain what nine tobacco companies knew, when they knew it and what they concealed from the public about their dangerous product. It also summarizes the major findings in the documents discovered during the Minnesota trial and demonstrates, how anyone can readily research the documents from several websites and the continuing value of these documents to journalists, public health workers, government officials and ordinary citizens.
Coveting Iran: The infiltration and exploitation of Iran by global cigarette companies
© World Health Organization 2001
This report reveals the importance placed on Iran by the entire tobacco industry, according to the industry’s internal documents obtained from court proceedings in the United States. The documents suggest that the multinational tobacco companies saw Iran not only as a market, but also as a conduit for the supply of contraband cigarettes to other countries.
