Now that the tobacco industry has been losing customers in the Western world, they are diligently trying to recruit more smokers in developing countries, or they are trying to mitigate efforts of those trying to end smoking in these countries.
For instance, a recent WHO (World Health Organization) report talks about the tobacco industry doing just that. "The tobacco industry is increasingly using domestic and especially international trade litigation in attempts to block progress on many tobacco control measures, such as smoke-free public places, pictorial health warnings, plain packaging and product regulation...This strategy includes bringing lengthy and expensive legal challenges against countries to intimidate them into retracting their tobacco control policies..."
Instead of making amends for their past transgressions (e.g., not being forthright about the negative effects of cigarettes when they first knew), they are hoping we all forget.
We have to remember to not forget.
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