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Trinidad and tobacco
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Trinidad and Tobago illustrates the classic predicament of many less affluent countries: its people and politicians are getting wise to the problems of tobacco, but it lacks the comprehensive tobacco control legislation so essential to stop the tobacco companies, which still see a highly profitable future there. An illustration of their optimism was the massive programme of high-profile activities which Rothmans organised to launch its Craven A brand there last November. Under the sort of newspaper headline that marketing executives must salivate over—“T & T welcomes Craven A”—a sycophantic article announced that the prime minister would be among …