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Other industry members have mounted similar criticisms, which the World Health Organization has described as "baseless" and "not supported by the evidence." Gagnon declined to comment on whether Imperial Tobacco is considering challenging the regulations in court, but Cunningham of the Canadian Cancer Society notes that tobacco companies have been fighting plain packaging in Canada since public-health officials first put forward proposals in 1994
Already, the tobacco men had been discussing among themselves what contingency measures they might have to adopt to head off a situation in which they might be forced by federal regulators to put a health warning on every kind of cigarette advertising, including print ads
Any lack of transparency in governments interactions with the industry offers a breeding ground for interference. Additional findings: Industry interference delayed comprehensive tobacco control laws in at least 10 countries: Bolivia, Bosnia, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Jamaica, Malawi, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Tanzania and Zambia
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