The tobacco lobby goes global
OVERVIEW: Down-and-out in developed nations, Big Tobacco is refocusing its lobbying on emerging markets.
Public health suffers as Indonesia ignores calls for tobacco reform
With a population of around 240 million and weak government regulations, Indonesia is one of Big Tobacco’s smoking giants. As of 2009, 28 percent of Indonesian adults were smokers and more than half of men smoke, with around 200,000 people dying each year because of smoking-related sickness.
In India, bidi industry's clout trumps health initiatives
Smoking Tigers: India and Indonesia represent the biggest challenges to global tobacco reform.
Russia's cigarette king practices strategic giving
In post-Soviet Russia, the right connections can mean success in business. And in the country’s lucrative retail tobacco trade, Igor Kesaev has set a new standard for success.
Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry, still used as lobbyists
In October, in chaotic Mexico City, a small army of protestors, sporting placards and shouting into bullhorns, worsened the usual traffic snarl around San Lazaro, the nation’s congressional office complex. Television news accounts showed screaming-mad tobacco farmers, some of whom had boarded buses and traveled 500 miles to warn federal legislators that new taxes on cigarettes would put them out of business.
Philip Morris says it will continue lobbying on international tobacco controls
Philip Morris International says it will continue to make its case to governments worldwide that are working to implement an international treaty that calls for limiting the role of the tobacco industry in how no-smoking advertising and excise-tax rules are shaped.
Moscow's open, revolving door for big tobacco
In Russia: High death rates, weak laws, and a powerful lobby.
A troubled model for reform in Mexico
Government’s ties to industry slow-track tobacco controls.
Uruguay vs. Philip Morris
Tobacco giant wages legal fight over South America’s toughest smoking controls.