Voice of truth
© World Health Organization 2008
“Review of tobacco industry activities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region” is a series of reports on the tactics and plans of the tobacco industry to undermine tobacco control efforts in the Region. The industry’s activities have been widely documented by WHO and its partners, and have also been exposed following the release of the ‘tobacco industry documents’, which present compelling arguments and evidence that the unethical behaviour of the tobacco industry has extended to all levels of society across the Region.
This report reveals the tactics and strategies used by the tobacco industry in the Region generally, and in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council specifically, to promote its deadly product. This report provides a strong argument for combining efforts as the only way to tackle the tobacco problem. It calls for all decision-makers and tobacco control advocates to review and redirect their tobacco control policies in light of the nature of tobacco industry activities.
Trust us: We're the tobacco industry
© World Health Organization 2006
This is a concise guide to the millions of pages of confidential tobacco industry documents released through litigation in the United States. Quotes from the documents are organized by subject category with many links to the documents on internet sites. The documents reveal the truth about what was going on behind closed doors in the tobacco companies and how they said one thing in public, and something quite different in private. Having been confronted with hundreds of documents that were impossible to explain away, the companies have tried to distance themselves from the past. The epilogue addresses the companies' new argument that "we've changed!" The report shows that the supposed change is cosmetic, no more than skin-deep public relations.
Tobacco industry documents: How to find them on the internet
© World Health Organization 2004
"Tobacco and poverty" is a package developed for the World No Tobacco Day 2004 campaign. "Tobacco industry documents: How to find them on the internet" explains how the documents can be accessed and explored through the special websites run by the companies themselves. They include documents that explain what the companies knew about tobacco, when they knew it and what they concealed from the public about their dangerous product.
