© 2002 Tobacco Control
News analysis
Smoke in the machine: industry's nervous puff over Tobacco Control report
Editor, Lighter Side, Montreal, Quebec, Canada shatensteins@sympatico.ca
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In the June 2001 issue of Tobacco Control, Stella Aguinaga Bialous and Derek Yach presented a paper entitled "Whose standard is it, anyway? How the tobacco industry determines the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for tobacco and tobacco products" (Tobacco Control 2001;10:96–104). Using tobacco industry documents, the authors "describe the extent of the tobacco industry involvement in establishing international standards for tobacco and tobacco products and the industry influence on the [ISO]." Evidently, Big Tobacco was not amused.
Offering only "light and mild" praise for the authors, the tobacco industry has lavished king size attention on their paper, with editorial reinforcements recruited from companies spread across four continents. The heightened display of interest is a sure sign that a nerve had been hit by Bialous and Yach, the Executive Director, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Project Manager at the World Health Organization (WHO), and
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