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indiaLUCKNOW: JUNE 13, 2011:- As civil society, governments, and other stakeholders, all over the world, struggle to enact lifesaving measures of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), tobacco companies aggressively fight its implementation, using a range of tactics to undermine advances being made by the aforesaid global tobacco treaty. Threats to health policy include aggressive lobbying, political intimidation and strategic charitable donations. The  recent report of Corporate Accountability International, ‘Philip Morris International Exposed, An Alternative Annual Report’, outlines many of the tactics from litigation to bullying that the industry uses to undermine public health.
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Q. What are the economic impacts of tobacco use?

A. The epidemic poses a long-term economic threat to countries and may slow their development. Tobacco negatively affects the welfare of users and costs the world hundreds of billions of dollars each year in lost productivity. If the epidemic worsens, the economic losses in highly populated developing countries will be severe. Many of these countries are manufacturing centres for the global economy and the growing number of tobacco-related deaths - half of which occur during prime productive years - will impose a heavy burden on these economies.

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