With tactics perfected by the tobacco industry over the last 50 years, multinational food, beverage and alcohol companies are working to deter, delay and derail policies that save millions of lives. Let’s not be fooled again.
Multinational food, soda and alcohol giants are employing the same tactics that made tobacco a pariah in the global public health conversation nearly two decades ago. Corporate food, soda and alcohol giants, whose products undermine health and wellbeing, shouldn’t be given the chance to derail or impede progress on fighting noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).