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Potential Implications for Tobacco Industry Transformation of the Acquisition of Swedish Match by Philip Morris International.
Levy, David T; Warner, Kenneth E; Liber, Alex C; Travis, Nargiz; Sweanor, David T; Meza, Rafael; Cummings, K Michael.
Afiliação
  • Levy DT; Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
  • Warner KE; School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Liber AC; Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
  • Travis N; Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
  • Sweanor DT; Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Meza R; Department of Integrative Oncology, BC Cancer Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Cummings KM; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Nicotine Tob Res ; 25(12): 1899-1903, 2023 Nov 22.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37535864
ABSTRACT
Philip Morris International's recent purchase of Swedish Match may prove to be a vital tobacco industry development. We focus on PMIs potential progress in moving from primarily selling cigarettes toward primarily selling noncombustible nicotine delivery products (NCNDPs). We also consider the potential contribution of the acquisition to industry transformation whereby other cigarette firms may potentially move toward primarily selling NCNDPs. We examine the potential impact on noncombustible nicotine delivery product use, including nicotine pouches (a major Swedish Match product), e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, and, most importantly, on sales of the industry's staple, combustible cigarettes. We focus on the United States as a special case, where PMI is limited from entering the cigarette market. Implications Philip Morris International's purchase of Swedish Match and policies regarding nicotine pouches (NPs) have been overlooked in the tobacco control literature. The acquisition indicates the importance of the NP market to the largest nonstate-owned tobacco company. The acquisition has the potential through pricing and marketing tactics to either encourage or discourage the use of NPs, e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, and most importantly cigarettes. Due to its inability to sell cigarettes in the United States, PMI will have incentives to use its alternative nicotine delivery products, including its newly acquired NPs, to reduce the sale of cigarettes by other companies. However, the potential effects in other countries, where PMI does sell cigarettes, are less clear. Monitoring and analyzing tobacco company acquisitions is essential to studying future transitions in using different kinds of tobacco products, especially from cigarettes to lower-risk alternative nicotine delivery products.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Indústria do Tabaco / Produtos do Tabaco / Sistemas Eletrônicos de Liberação de Nicotina Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do norte / Europa Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Indústria do Tabaco / Produtos do Tabaco / Sistemas Eletrônicos de Liberação de Nicotina Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do norte / Europa Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article