“I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable.”

—  Margaret Chan

At the launch of the WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic. Source: Tobacco industry interference: a global brief http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/70894/1/WHO_NMH_TFI_12.1_eng.pdf, World Health Organization, 2008, page 6.

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