Retail strategies and tobacco industry interference: new articles

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Tobacco Tactics has published a new landing page Shaping Retail: The Tobacco Industry’s Playbook, which explores how tobacco companies strategically shape retail environment to promote their products and influence public health policies. 

Further articles are linked from this page:  

  • Targeting Specific Communities: Insight into how tobacco companies use retail marketing to exploit age, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status to promote their products.  
  • The Role of Incentives: A closer look at the financial rewards, loyalty programmes, and contract agreements used to secure product placements and retailer cooperation. 
  • Undermining National Regulations: An analysis of tobacco companies tactics to delay, undermine, or bypass public health regulations, often by leveraging retailers as political allies. 

See also: More Than a Store: How the Tobacco Industry Uses Retail Spaces to Hook Consumers (STOP factsheet) 

And TCRG papers:  

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