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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 27 International |
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| | International: India and Bangladesh |
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| | In Sri Lanka, smoking rates are high for males but very low in females. The national |
| | tobacco monopoly, Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC), is a subsidiary of British |
| | American Tobacco (BAT), and markets Bristol, the "popular" brand, and John Player |
| | Gold Leaf, the "premium" brand. The company has been aggressively marketing their |
| | Benson and Hedges brand in discos with free samples, and publishes "Golden Tone |
| | News", a weekly pop music supplement. CTC sponsors many popular sporting |
| | events, and by report has hired young women to drive around in "Gold Leaf" cars to |
| | give out free cigarette samples and promotional items in places such as school |
| | campuses and shopping malls. As in India, chewed betel and tobacco is widely used |
| | by both men and women. |
| | Reported by Garrett Mehl, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, December 1997 |
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| | In 1993, BAT's subsidiary, the Ceylon Tobacco Company, organized a news |
| | conference to dispute the alleged health effects of smoking. A report of the session in |
| | The Island newspaper was headlined "Anti-smoking campaign comes under heavy |
| | fire" and "Consultants rule out lung cancer, heart disease." Here are excerpts from the |
| | article: An international team of consultants hosted by Ceylon Tobacco Company last |
| | week insisted that smoking could not be linked to lung cancer and heart disease. They |
| | accused the mass media of being biased against smoking... Dr. Sharon Boyse, head |
| | of the Smoking Issues Department of the British American Tobacco Corporation in |
| | the United Kingdom, Said there is "absolutely" no laboratory proof that smoking is |
| | directly related to lung cancer or heart disease. Lung cancer, she Pointed out, could |
| | be caused by various other factors also - keeping pet birds and ethnic factors for |
| | instance.... The issue of passive smoking was dealt with by Philip Witorsch of the |
| | George Washington University Medical Center. According to him, passive smoking or |
| | inhaling what he calls "Environmental Tobacco Smoke" is not hazardous to one's |
| | health... |
| | Quote from Smoke and Mirrors, p. 215 |
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| | Monday, July 24, 2000 | Page 64 of 116 |
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