2021年全球烟草业干预指数（英）

While governments have the power to tighten regulations on the industry, unfortunately, the opposite seems to have happened in these trying times. In
many countries, governments have protected and
even promoted theTI.Tobacco is already responsible
for about 8 million annual deaths globally1 and health and productivity losses cost around US $1.4 trillion every year.2 Yet, governments were persuaded to accommodate the demands and lobbying of this harmful industry and accept its charity as shown in the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 (the Index).

Although governments identified tobacco industry interference as a main obstacle3 to their efforts to implement tobacco control measures, many became vulnerable to the industry’s tactics, succumbed to its interference and compromised on their policies to protect public health from commercial interests.

Several governments were persuaded by the doubletalk of transnational tobacco companies such as Philip Morris International (PMI), British American Tobacco (BAT)
and Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which offered

new tobacco products for approval and claimed they were moving away from cigarettes. In reality, they were selling more cigarettes and simultaneously obstructing government regulatory efforts that would affect cigarette sales.