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Lebanon: business as usual

¹ Beirut, Lebanon; rima.nakkash@lshtm.ac.uk
² London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK; kelley.lee@lshtm.ac.uk

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In December 2005 Lebanon ratified the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) with little fanfare by the government and no coverage by the local media, and so far it seems that the tobacco industry is behaving just as it did before (Tobacco Control 2006;15:80–1).

While the tobacco industry remains under the control of a government monopoly, the Regie—which has the exclusive right to import/export local tobacco products and issue licences to tobacco growers—competition for market share within this substantial and growing market remains fierce among the transnational tobacco companies. In 2002 Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and the French-Spanish company Altadis held 93% of the cigarette market. Altadis alone now holds more than 10% of the Lebanese market, which it describes as "outstanding". Smoking prevalence is 46% for adult males and 35% for adult females, among the highest rates . . . [Full text of this article]

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