Open AccessSuccessful countering of tobacco industry efforts to overturn Thailand's ENDS ban
Author(s) -
Roengrudee Patanavanich,
Stanton A. Glantz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tobacco control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.715
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1468-3318
pISSN - 0964-4563
DOI - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056058
Subject(s) - tobacco industry , tobacco control , government (linguistics) , harm reduction , harm , newspaper , public health , business , political science , advertising , law , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , nursing
After Thailand enacted laws to ban the import and sale of all types of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS, including e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs)) in 2015, pro-ENDS advocacy groups pressured the government to lift the ban, particularly after Philip Morris International (PMI) started promoting its HTP IQOS in 2017.