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Regional - Africa

Legresley E, Lee K, Muggli M, Patel P, Collin J, Hurt R. British American Tobacco and the "Insidious impact of illicit trade" in cigarettes across Africa. Tobacco Control. 2008 Jul 10. doi:10.1136/tc.2008.025999

Otanez M, Mamudu H, Glantz S. Global leaf companies control the tobacco market in Malawi. Tobacco Control. 2007 Aug;16(4):261-269.

Otanez M, Muggli M, Hurt R, Glantz S. Eliminating child labour in Malawi: A British American Tobacco corporate responsibility project to sidestep tobacco labour exploitation. Tobacco Control. 2006 Jun;5(3):224-30.

Owusu-Dabo E, Lewis S, McNeill A, Anderson S, Britton J, Gilmore A. Smoking in Ghana: A review of tobacco industry activity. Tobacco Control. 2009 Apr 8;[Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1136/tc.2009.030601

Patel P, Collin J, Gilmore A. "The law was actually drafted by us but the government is to be congratulated on its wise actions": British American Tobacco and public policy in Kenya. Tobacco Control. 2007;16:e1. doi:10.1136/tc.2006.016071

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Regional - Asia/Russia

Alechnowicz K, Chapman S. The Philippine Tobacco Industry: 'The strongest tobacco lobby in Asia'. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii71-78.

Assunta M, Chapman S. A 'clean cigarette' for a clean nation: A case study of Salem Pianissimo in Japan. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii58-62.

Assunta M, Chapman S. 'The world's most hostile environment': How the tobacco industry circumvented Singapore's advertising ban. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii51-57.

Assunta M, Chapman S. The tobacco industry's accounts of refining indirect tobacco advertising in Malaysia.  Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii63-70.

Assunta M, Chapman S. A mire of highly subjective and ineffective voluntary guidelines: Tobacco industry efforts to thwart tobacco control in Malaysia. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii43-50.

Assunta M, Chapman S. Industry sponsored youth smoking prevention programme in Malaysia: A case study in duplicity. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii37-42.

Assunta M, Chapman S. The lightest market in the world: Light and mild cigarettes in Japan. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2008 May;10(5):803-10. doi:10.1080/14622200802023882

Bialous S, Mochizuki-Kobayashi Y, Stillman F. Courtesy and the challenges of implementing smoke-free policies in Japan. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 2006 Apr;8(2):2003-16.

Bobak M, Gilmore A, McKee M, Rose R, Marmot M. Changes in smoking prevalence in Russia, 1996-2004. Tobacco Control. 2006;15:131-35.

Chen A, Glantz S, Tong E. Asian herbal-tobacco cigarettes: "Not medicine but less harmful"? . Tobacco Control. 2007 Apr;16(2):e3. doi:10.1136/tc.2006.016568

Collin J, Le Gresley E, MacKenzie R, et al. Complicity in contraband: British American Tobacco and cigarette smuggling in Asia. Tobacco Control. 2004;12(Suppl 2):ii104-111.

Gilmore A. "Tobacco and transition: Understanding the impact of transition on tobacco use and control in the former Soviet Union." Tobacco Control. Reports on Industry Activity from Outside UCSF. Paper SovietUnion. Available at http://repositories.cdlib.org/tc/reports/SovietUnion/

Gilmore A, Collin J, McKee M. British American Tobacco's erosion of health legislation in Uzbekistan. BMJ. 2006;332:355-358. doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7537.355 with extra material and references on site

Gilmore A, Collin J, Townsend J. Transnational tobacco company influence on taxation policy during privatization: The case of BAT in Uzbekistan. American Journal of Public Health. 2007;97(1). (epub ahead of print 30 Nov 2006 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2005.078378v1 )

Gilmore A, McKee M. Moving east: How the transnational tobacco companies gained entry to the emerging markets of the former Soviet Union. Part 1: Establishing cigarette imports. Tobacco Control. 2004;13:43-100.

Gilmore A, McKee M. Moving east: How the transnational tobacco companies gained entry to the emerging markets of the former Soviet Union. Part II: Priorities and tactics in establishing a manufacturing presence. Tobacco Control. 2004;13:101-160.

Gilmore A, McKee M. Exploring the impact of foreign direct investment on tobacco consumption in the former Soviet Union. Tobacco Control. 2005;14:13-21.

Gilmore A, McKee M, Collin J. The invisible hand: How British American Tobacco precluded competition in Uzbekistan. Tobacco Control. 2007 Aug;16(4):239-47.

Gilmore A, Pomerleau J, McKee M, Rose R, Haerpfer CEA. Prevalence of smoking in eight countries of the former Soviet Union. Results from the living conditions, lifestyles and health study. American Journal of Public Health. 2004;94:2177-2184.

Iida K, Proctor R. Learning from Philip Morris: Japan tobacco's strategies regarding evidence of tobacco health harms as revealed in internal documents from the American tobacco industry. Lancet. 2004;363:1820-24.

Kingman S. Hong Kong tobacco deaths presage vast China epidemic. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2001;79:10.

Knight J, Chapman S. 'Asia is now the priority target for the world anti-tobacco movement': Attempts by the tobacco industry to undermine the Asian anti-smoking movement. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii30-36.

Knight J, Chapman S. 'A phony way to show sincerity, as we all well know': Tobacco industry lobbying against tobacco control in Hong Kong. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii13-21.

Lambert A, Sargent J, Glantz S, Ling P. How Philip Morris unlocked the Japanese cigarette market: Lessons for global tobacco control. Tobacco Control. 2004;13:379-387.

Lawrence S. British American Tobacco's failure in Turkey. Tobacco Control. 2008 Oct 9;[Epub ahead of print]. doi:10.1136/tc.2007.021782

Lawrence S, Collin J. Competing with kreteks: Transnational tobacco companies, globalisation and Indonesia. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii96-103.

Lee K, Collin J. "Key to the future": British American Tobacco and cigarette smuggling in China. PLoS Med. 2006;3(7):e228. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030228

Lee K, Gilmore A, Collin J. Breaking and re-entering: British American Tobacco in China 1979-2000. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii88-95.

Lee K, Kinh H, MacKenzie R, Gilmore A, Minh N, Collin J. Gaining access to Vietnam's cigarette market: British American Tobacco's strategy to enter 'a huge market which will become enormous.' Global Public Health. 2008;3(1):1-25.

MacKenzie R, Collin J, Sopharo C, al. e. Almost a role model of what we would like to do everywhere: British American Tobacco in Cambodia. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii112-117.

MacKenzie R, Collin J, Sriwongcharoen K. Thailand - lighting up a dark market: British American Tobacco, sports sponsorship and the circumvention of legislation. Journal of  Epidemiology and Community Health. 2007;61(1):28-33. doi: 10.1136/jech.2005.042432

MacKenzie R, Collin J, Sriwongcharoen K, Muggli M. If we can just 'stall' new unfriendly legislations, the scoreboard is already in our favour: Transnational tobacco companies and ingredients disclosure in Thailand. Tobacco Control. 2004;13(Suppl 2):ii79-87.

Muggli ME, Lee K, Gan Q, Ebbert JO, Hurt RD. "Efforts to reprioritise the agenda" in China: British American Tobacco's efforts to influence public policy on secondhand smoke in China. PLoS Med. 2008 Dec 23;5(12):e251. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050251

Nakkash R, Lee K. Smuggling as the "key to a combined market": British American Tobacco in Lebanon. Tobacco Control. 2008 Oct;17(5):324-31. doi:10.1136/tc.2008.025254

O'Sullivan B, Chapman S. Eyes on the prize: Transnational tobacco companies in China 1976-1997. Tobacco Control. 2000;9:292-302.

Perlman F, Bobak M, Gilmore A, McKee M. Trends in the prevalence of smoking in Russia during the transition to a market economy. Tobacco Control. 2007 Oct;16(5):299-305. doi: 10.1136/tc.2006.019455

Wen C, Chen T, Tsai Y-Y, Tsai S, Chung W, Cheng T, et al. Are marketing campaigns in Taiwan by foreign tobacco companies targeting young smokers?  Tobacco Control. 2005;14(Suppl 1):i38-44.

Wen C, Cheng T, Eriksen M, Tsai S, Hsu C. The impact of the cigarette market opening in Taiwan. Tobacco Control. 2005;14(Suppl 1):14-19.

Wen C, Peterson R, Cheng T, Tsai S, Eriksen M, Chen T. Paradoxical increase in cigarette smuggling after the market opening in Taiwan. Tobacco Control. 2006 Jun;15(3):160-5.

Zhong F, Yano E. British American Tobacco's tactics during China's accession to the world trade organization. Tobacco Control. 2007 Apr;16(2):133-7. doi:10.1136/tc.2006.018374

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Regional - Australia/Oceania

Ballard J. Chapter 4 - The politics of tobacco control in Australia: International template? In: Feldman Ea, Bayer R, editors. Unfiltered: Conflict over tobacco policy and public health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2004.

Carter S. Going below the line: Creating transportable brands for Australia's dark market. Tobacco Control. 2003 Dec;12(Suppl 3):iii95-101.

Carter S. From legitimate consumers to public relations pawns: The tobacco industry and young Australians. Tobacco Control. 2003;12(Suppl 3):iii71-78.

Carter S. The Australian cigarette brand as product, person, and symbol. Tobacco Control. 2003;12(Suppl 3):iii79-86.

Carter S, Chapman S. Smoking, disease, and obdurate denial: The Australian tobacco industry in the 1980s. Tobacco Control. 2003;12(Suppl 3):iii23-30.

Chapman S, Byrne F, Carter S. "Australia is one of the darkest markets of the world": The global importance of Australian tobacco control. Tobacco Control. 2003;12(Suppl 3):iii1-3.

Chapman S, Carter S. "Avoid health warnings on all tobacco products for just as long as we can": A history of Australian tobacco industry efforts to avoid, delay and dilute health warnings on cigarettes. Tobacco Control. 2003;12(Suppl 3):iii13-22.

Chapman S, Carter S, Peters M. "A deep fragrance of academia": The Australian tobacco research foundation. Tobacco Control. 2003;12(Suppl 3):iii38-44.

Thomson G, Wilson N. Implementation failures in the use of two New Zealand laws to control the tobacco industry: 1989-2005. Australia and New Zealand Health Policy. 2005 Dec 14;2(1):32.

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Regional - Europe

Birkeland G, Birkeland V. Tobakksindustriens erstatningsansvar [Tobacco industry liability] [article in Norwegian]. Attachment 9: [Report on search of documents in the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository]. Norges Offentlige Utredninger 2000;16. http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/hod/documents/NOUer/2000/NOU-2000-16.html?id=143101

Birkeland V, Andreassen P, Duvaland L. Tobakksindustriens erstatningsansvar [tobacco industry liability] [article in Norwegian]. Attachment 10: [Report on search of documents in the Guildford Depository].  Norges Offentlige Utredninger 2000;16. http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/hod/dok/NOUer/2000/NOU-2000-16/31.html?id=359604

Bitton A, Neuman M, Glantz S. "Tobacco industry attempts to subvert European Union tobacco advertising legislation" (April 1, 2002). Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Tobacco Control Policy Making: International. Paper EU2002
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmi/EU2002/

Gilmore A, Radu-Loghin C, Zatushevski I, McKee M. Pushing up smoking incidence: Plans for a privatised tobacco industry in Moldova. Lancet. 2005;265:1354-1359.

Hiilamo H. Tobacco companies' tactics in the prevention of tobacco regulation in Finland. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka. 2002;12:199-213.

Hiilamo H. Tobacco industry strategy to undermine tobacco control in Finland. Tobacco Control. 2003;12:414-23.

Hiilamo H. The fear of losing out: Tobacco industry strategies in Finland 1975-2001. Tampere: Tampere University Press; 2007.

Hiilamo H, Kahl U, Lambe M. The Philip Morris Nordic journalist program: Strategies, implementation and outcomes. Health Policy. 2008 Jun 25;In Press. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.05.003

Joossens L, Sasco A, Salvador T, Villalbi J. [Women and tobacco in the European Union] [article in Spanish] Revista Espanola de Salud Publica 1999;73:3-11.

Kyriss T, Potschke-Langer M, Gruning T. [The German cigarette industry association--obstructing effective tobacco control in Germany]. Gesundheitswesen. 2008 May;70(5):315-24. doi:10.1055/s-2008-1078752

Le Gresley E, Muggli M, Hurt R. Movie moguls: British American Tobacco's covert strategy to promote cigarettes in Eastern Europe. European Journal of Public Health. 2006;16(5):505-508.
Lee C-Y, Glantz S. "The tobacco industry's successful efforts to control tobacco policy making in Switzerland" (January 1, 2001). Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Tobacco Control Policy Making: International. Paper Swiss2001
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmi/Swiss2001

Perez-Martin J, Peruga A. [The International Association of Tobacco Growers attacks WHO] [article in Spanish] Revista Panamericana Salud Publica 2003;13:267-70.

Schiermeirer Q. German tobacco papers reveal lump sums for experts. Nature. 2005;435:866.

Shafey O, Fernandez E, Thun M, Schiaffino A, Dolwick S, Cokkinides V. Case studies in international tobacco surveillance: Cigarette advertising and female smoking prevalence in Spain, 1982-1997. Cancer. 2004;100:1744-49.

Soto-Mas F, Villalbi J, Granero L, Jacobson H, Balcazar H. [The tobacco industry's internal documents and smoking prevention in Spain][article in Spanish] Gaceta Sanitaria. 2003;17(Suppl 3):9-14.

Szilagyi T. Hungry for Hungary: Examples of tobacco industry's expansionism. Hungary: Health 21 Hungarian Foundation; 2006.

Szilagyi T, Chapman S. Tobacco industry efforts to keep cigarettes affordable: A case study from Hungary. Central European Journal of Public Health. 2003;11:223-228.

Szilagyi T, Chapman S. Hungry for Hungary: Examples of tobacco industry's expansionism. Central European Journal of Public Health. 2003;11:38-43.

Szilagyi T, Chapman S. Tobacco industry efforts to erode tobacco advertising controls in Hungary. Central European Journal of Public Health. 2004;12:190-96.

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Regional - North/South America

Barnes R, McCarthy J, Glantz S. "Tobacco control in Hawai'i: Progress in paradise" (july 14, 2008). Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Tobacco Control Policy Making: United States.  Paper Hawaii2008. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmus/Hawaii2008/

Barnoya J, Glantz S. Tobacco industry success in preventing regulation of secondhand smoke in Latin America: The "Latin project". Tobacco Control. 2002;11:305-14.

Drope J, Glantz S. British Columbia capital regional district 100% smokefree bylaw: A successful public health campaign despite industry opposition. Tobacco Control. 2003;12:264-68.

Lavack A, Clark G. Responding to the global tobacco industry: Canada and the framework convention on tobacco control. Canadian Public Administration. 2007 Spring;50(1):100-119.

Sebrie E, Barnoya J, Perez-Stable E, Glantz S. Tobacco industry successfully prevented tobacco control legislation in Argentina. Tobacco Control. 2005;14:e2.

Sebrie E, Barnoya J, Perez-Stable E, Glantz S. "Tobacco industry dominating national tobacco policy making in Argentina, 1966-2005" Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education September 1, 2005. Tobacco Control Policy Making: International. Paper Argentina2005. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmi/Argentina2005/
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/tcpmi/Argentina2005_Spanish/

Sebrie E, Glantz S. "Accommodating" Smoke-free policies: Tobacco industry's courtesy of choice programme in Latin America. Tobacco Control. 2007;16(5):e6. http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/16/5/e6

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