Congress logo
Back to Conference page

The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health

Building capacity for a tobacco-free world

July 12-15, 2006, Washington, DC, USA

Friday, July 14, 2006 - 1:30 PM
134-1

Situation Analysis on Tobacco Control and Politics in Thailand

Nithat Sirichotiratana, DrPH, Health Education and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, 420/1 Rajvithi Road, Rajathevi District, Bangkok, Thailand, Stephen L. Hamann, PhD, Thai Health Promotion Foundation, 979 34th Floor SM Tower, Paholyothin Road, Bangkok, Thailand, and Naowarut Charoenka, PhD, Sanitary Engineering Department, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, 420/1 Rajvithi Road, Rajathevi District, Bangkok, Thailand.

Objective: To learn about strategies of transnational tobacco industry in interfering with the process of legislating national tobacco control law.

Methods: Reviewed internal documents of transnational tobacco industry; Interviewing key tobacco control experts regarding relationship of various politicians and tobacco industry.

Results: Transnational tobacco industry employed lobbyists and hiring consultants/advisors, in order to influence politicians, policy makers, academicians, research institutes, and the media in Thailand, toward the tobacco industry. Lesson learned is that tobacco control group will have to find strategies which will prohibit meeting of tobacco industry representatives and high ranking officials at the ministry of public health, or government officials such as prime minister and his deputies.


See more of Tobacco Industry Influence and Interference in Policy Development
See more of Producer

See more of The 13th World Conference on Tobacco and Health Conference