TY - JOUR T1 - How to make the US State Department’s tobacco directive work for you: Senegal’s case JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 340 LP - 340 DO - 10.1136/tc.7.4.340a VL - 7 IS - 4 AU - ANNA WHITE Y1 - 1998/12/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/7/4/340.2.abstract N2 - It is laudable that the State Department issued a directive on American international policy on tobacco in February 1998. At the same time it represents no real change in policy.Old fair trade rhetoric and a new pro-health agenda aren’t easily squared, as the directive clearly indicates. Wrought with the old misguided logic of the “legal” product, its policy objective of ensuring American companies “equal access to a shrinking global market for tobacco” echoes the old USTR (United States trade representative) mentality: “We know cigarettes are bad, but hey, we’ve got to help ‘poor’ American companies get their ‘fair’ share of the pie!” This ignores the fact that … ER -