The following electronic only articles are published in conjunction with this issue of Tobacco Control.

Tobacco industry successfully prevented tobacco control legislation in Argentina

E M Sebrié, J Barnoya, E J Pérez-Stable, S A Glantz

Objective: To evaluate how transnational tobacco companies, working through their local affiliates, influenced tobacco control policymaking in Argentina between 1966 and 2005.

Methods: Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents, local newspapers and magazines, internet resources, bills from the Argentinean National Congress Library, and interviews with key individuals in Argentina.

Results: Transnational tobacco companies (Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Lorillard, and RJ Reynolds International) have been actively influencing public health policymaking in Argentina since the early 1970s. As in …