Corporate Accountability and Policy Participation Africa (CAPPA) has decried the country’s slide from 53 to 60 in tobacco interference ranking. Its Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi, who spoke at the launch of the group’s report entitled, ‘Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2023’ in Lagos, observed that tobacco companies were subtly selling their ‘poisonous’ products through Corporate Social Responsibility […]
Although commercial entities can contribute positively to health and society there
is growing evidence that the products and practices of some commercial actors notably
the largest transnational corporations are responsible for escalating rates of avoidable
ill health, planetary damage, and social and health inequity; these problems are increasingly
referred to as the commercial determinants of health. The climate emergency, the non-communicable
disease epidemic, and that just four industry sectors (ie, tobacco, ultra-processed
food, fossil fuel, and alcohol) already account for at least a third of global deaths
illustrate the scale and huge economic cost of the problem.
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Bangladesh scored 72 out of 100 in the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 a four-point downgrade from the previous year’s performance in measuring the tobacco industry’s influence.