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Tobacco companies benefit from India's policy against e-cigarettes

AVI press release (via Brands2Life) · 11 June 2020

Recap of Samrat Chowdhery’s address to the (virtual) Global Forum on Nicotine, arguing state ownership stakes in tobacco monopolies — India’s government holds nearly a third of ITC — create a structural conflict of interest in tobacco policy, and calling for the state to divest from the industry.