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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 99, Issue 7, Pages 1188-1196Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.143131
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- National Cancer Institute [R01CA095964]
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The tobacco industry often utilizes third parties to advance its policy agenda. One such utilization occurred when the industry identified organized labor and progressive groups as potential allies whose advocacy could undermine public support for excise tax increases. To attract such collaboration, the industry framed the issue as one of tax fairness, creating a labor management committee to provide distance from tobacco companies and furthering progressive allies' interests through financial and logistical support. Internal industry documents indicate that this strategic use of ideas, institutions, and interests facilitated the recruitment of leading progressive organizations as allies. By placing excise taxes within a strategic policy nexus that promotes mutual public interest goals, public health advocates may use a similar strategy in forging their own excise tax coalitions. (Am J Public Health. 2009;99:1188-1196. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.143131)
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