Sweda E L, Daynard R A
Tobacco Products Liability Project, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Br Med Bull. 1996 Jan;52(1):183-92. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011525.
The tobacco industry's strong-arm tactics have been used consistently over many years. These tactics include: using the industry's size, wealth, and legal resources to intimidate individuals and local governmental bodies; setting up 'front groups' to make it appear that it has more allies than it really does; spending large sums of money to frame the public debate about smoking regulations around 'rights and liberty' rather than health and portraying its tobacco company adversaries as extremists; 'investing' thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to politicians; and using financial resources to influence science. These tactics are designed to produce delay, giving the nicotine cartel more time to collect even more profits at the direct expense of millions of lives around the world.
多年来，烟草行业一直在持续使用高压手段。这些手段包括：利用行业的规模、财富和法律资源来恐吓个人和地方政府机构；设立“前沿组织”，使其看起来盟友众多；花费大量资金，将关于吸烟规定的公众辩论围绕“权利和自由”而非健康展开，并将其烟草公司对手描绘成极端分子；向政客的竞选活动捐款数千美元；以及利用资金影响科学。这些手段旨在造成拖延，让尼古丁卡特尔有更多时间以全球数百万人的生命为直接代价获取更多利润。
