Alleged Violations of Tobacco Control and Other Laws

Tobacco companies aggressively block, weaken, and undermine policies designed to protect public health and reduce tobacco use, and at times they have been found to work outside of countries’ laws. In multiple instances tobacco companies have been found to have violated the law.

In the Netherlands, Japan Tobacco International allegedly paid Dutch student associations to exclusively sell Winston and Camel brands in cigarette vending machines within the walls of the associations