Price and trade: World No Tobacco Day 2015

The public health community is also worried about tobacco companies using investor-state dispute settlement clauses to challenge tobacco control measures-such as Australia's Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, 7 and Uruguay's Graphic Health Warnings. [...]in an empirical analysis, another team of researchers suggest that the tobacco industry has inflated estimates of illicit cigarette consumption in Asia. 11 South African economic researchers report similar findings highlighting the tobacco industry's incredible claims about the size of the illicit cigarette market in South Africa. 12 They conclude, "By rewriting history about the magnitude of the illicit market, [the tobacco industry] has again shown itself as an untrustworthy source of information" (Ibid).