Brazil: balance of the National Tobacco Control Policy in the last decade and dilemmas

• Autor(a) principal: Tânia Maria Cavalcante
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Mariana Coutinho Marques de Pinho, Cristina de Abreu Perez, Ana Paula Leal Teixeira, Felipe Lacerda Mendes, Rosa Rulff Vargas, Alexandre Octávio Ribeiro de Carvalho, Erica Cavalcanti Rangel, Liz Maria de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/6567
• topic: Smoking; Tobacco Industry; Control and Sanitary Supervision of Tobacco-Derived Products; Hábito de Fumar; Indústria do Tabaco; Controle e Fiscalização de Produtos Derivados do Tabaco

Since 2005, Brazil has been a Party of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an international treaty whose measures are the foundation of the National Tobacco-Control Policy (NTCP), of Brazil. The results evidence a significant decrease in the prevalence of smokers and in tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. These results, however, could have been even better if there wasn’t the interference of the tobacco supply chain (TSC), controlled by transnational corporations, which has become more intense over the last 10 years. These companies made Brazil not only a repository for tobacco, but also for economic and political power capable of threatening NTCP achievements. This Essay recounts the development of NTCP and the tobacco supply chain modus operandi to hamper it, and discusses how the strengthening of policies to promote alternative crops for tobacco could shield NTCP from such interference.