Published 1 October 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a1887
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1887
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Papers show how tobacco companies stopped airline’s smoking ban
Annette Tuffs
1 Heidelberg
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The tobacco industry in Germany, working with the popular German daily newspaper Bild, stopped the airline Lufthansa from banning smoking on its domestic flights in the early 1990s, an analysis of internal tobacco industry documents shows.
The tobacco company Philip Morris has had to publish thousands of internal documents on the internet as a consequence of a US court sentence against it in 1998. A paper in a German public health journal has used the documents to shed light on the tobacco industry’s successful lobbying strategies in Germany (Gesundheitswesen 2008;70:315-24, doi:10.1055/s-2008-1078752).
The documents also show how the German Association of the Cigarette Industry (Verband der Cigarettenindustrie) managed to prevent a ban on tobacco advertising, to persuade the German government to bring action against certain EU guidelines, to keep cigarette vending machines accessible to children, and to prevent the introduction of higher taxes on tobacco products. They
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