Instrumental strategy	Technique	Description
Coalition management	Constituency recruitment	TI associations’ complaints and arguments to try to cancel the public consultation.
Coalition management	Constituency fabrication	Growers associations’ demonstrations and complaints about the public consultations.4
Information management	Amplification	Dissemination of TI arguments in newspapers and other media.
		Dissemination of misleading information.
		Massive participation in the public consultation, opposing the ban but mostly, overwhelming the process.
	Suppression	‘Scientific studies’ funded by TI contesting the additive ban positive impact.
Direct involvement and influence in policy	Incentives and threats	Political campaign funding of politicians that protect TI interests.
	Actor in legislative processes	Congressman supported by TI tried to cancel the public consultation through legislative measures.
	Actor in government decision-making	Ministry of Agriculture hosted a tobacco sector meeting chaired by TI.
Litigation	Legal action to contest/ obstruct regulations	Injunction to cancel the public hearing results.

TI, tobacco industry.