Illicit trade, tobacco industry-funded studies and policy influence in the EU and UK

In the course of the last decade, the tobacco industry has attempted to increase the political salience of the illicit trade in tobacco products (illicit trade) (box 1).1 ,2 Tobacco companies have claimed that sharp rises in tobacco taxation and innovative regulation, such as standardised packaging and product display bans, are drivers of the illicit trade, and have advocated programmes of engagement with policymakers and other social actors in an effort to ensure that the issue is given greater consideration in health policymaking.2–5 Box 1 ### Major activities comprising the illicit trade in tobacco products.6–8 Transcrime adopts the definition of illicit trade outlined in the World Health Organisation, Framework Convention of Tobacco Control, namely, ‘any practice or conduct prohibited by law and which relates to production, shipment, receipt, possession, distribution, sale or purchase including any practice or conduct intended to facilitate such activity’.6 ,9 This covers:

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Tobacco Control

• Publication date

  2013-01-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050788PMID 23322314PMCID 3844000
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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