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France has a unique profile: it has high tobacco use prevalence and a state monopoly on tobacco sales for tobacconists who are both agents of the customs administration and a recognised tobacco industry (TI) front group. In this paper, we investigate the lobbying tactics and arguments against tobacco taxation mobilised by the TI and tobacconists in France.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the two leading French tobacco trade media outlets (La Revue des Tabacs and Le Losange) between 2000 and 2020. We performed a manual thematic content analysis based on existing conceptual models of TI political activity, including the policy dystopia model.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Tobacconists actively lobbied against tobacco taxation, using traditional arguments highlighted in conceptual models (ie, the claim that \u2018taxation increases illicit trade and is ineffective\u2019), but also France-centric arguments (ie, tobacconists denounced the impact of cross-border shopping and highlighted their role as pivotal to community life in rural areas). We also found lobbying strategies mirroring those identified previously (ie, coalition, information management and direct influence in public policy).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Tobacconists in France hold a specific status that gives them privileged access to government bodies that can be exploited to successfully lobby against tobacco taxation. NGOs need to expose these lobbying activities and alert the public authorities to Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that requires countries to protect policies from TI interests.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/tc-2023-058254","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,29]],"date-time":"2024-03-29T13:25:30Z","timestamp":1711718730000},"page":"506-512","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Lobbying against tobacco tax increases in France: arguments and strategies of the tobacco industry and tobacconists analysed through their trade press"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"34","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-5937-0874","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana","family":"Millot","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ Rennes, EHESP, CNRS, Inserm, Ar\u00e8nes\u2014UMR 6051, RSMS\u2014U 1309, Rennes, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emmanuelle","family":"Beguinot","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Comit\u00e9 national contre le tabagisme, Paris, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mark","family":"Petticrew","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0152-4079","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Karine","family":"Gallopel-Morvan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Univ Rennes, EHESP, CNRS, Inserm, Ar\u00e8nes\u2014UMR 6051, RSMS\u2014U 1309, Rennes, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025073109350549000_34.4.506.1","unstructured":"World Health Organization . 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