EDITORIAL

The tobacco industry in Asia: revelations in the corporate documents

J M Mackay

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr Judith M Mackay
Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, Hong Kong SAR; jmackay@pacific.net.hk

Keywords: Asia; tobacco industry; documents

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Scholarship on tobacco industry documents has concentrated on the west. There have been two previous supplements on the documents published by Tobacco Control, which focused on the USA in 2002¹ and on Australia in 2003,² as well as many individual papers. Hirschhorn has assembled a list of all publications that deal principally with the documents.³

This supplement contains the first collection of papers addressing Asian documents, which include diverse countries such as Cambodia, China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, with topics ranging from smuggling and subversion of proposed legislation to tobacco industry youth campaigns (see below).

This is not just an issue of academic inclusion; these articles represent a rare resource enabling governments, health advocates, and the media to gain an unprecedented insight into the minds, motives, strategies, tactics, and data of the tobacco industry. Appreciation of tobacco industry strategies over the past . . . [Full text of this article]

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