TOBACCO INDUSTRY TACTICS

The tobacco industry's strong-arm tactics have been used consistently over many years. These tactics include: using the industry's size, wea lth, and legal resources to intimidate individuals and local governmen tal bodies; setting up 'front groups' to make it appear that it has mo re allies than it really does; spending large sums of money to Frame t he public debate about smoking regulations around 'rights and liberty' rather than health and portraying its tobacco company adversaries as extremists; 'investing' thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to politicians; and using financial resources to influence science. T hese tactics are designed to produce delay, giving the nicotine cartel more time to collect even more profits at the direct expense of milli ons of lives around the world.