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We applied the policy dystopia model to analyze industry action and argument-based strategies on NETNP regulations.<\/p>\n<\/sec>\n<sec>\n<title>Results.<\/title>\n<p>Industry actors engaged in four instrumental strategies to influence NETNP regulation \u2013 coalition management, information management, direct involvement in and access to the policy process, and litigation. Their actions included: lobbying key policy-makers, academics and vaping associations; providing grants to media groups to disseminate favorable NETNP information; participating in public consultations; presenting at public hearings; inserting industry-inspired language into draft NETNP legislation; and filing lawsuits to challenge NETNP bans. The industry disseminated its so-called harm reduction argument through large\/influential countries (e.g., Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico). Industry discursive strategies claimed NETNPs were less harmful, provided safer alternatives, and should be regulated as so-called harm reduction products or have fewer restrictions on their sale and use than those currently in place.<\/p>\n<\/sec>\n<sec>\n<title>Conclusion.<\/title>\n<p>Our analysis provides a better understanding of industry strategies to undermine tobacco and nicotine control. To help counter industry efforts, health advocates should proactively strengthen government capacities and alert policy-makers to industry attempts to create new regulatory categories (so-called reduced-risk products), provide misleading information of government authorizations of NETNPs, and co-opt so-called harm-reduction messages that serve the industry\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<\/sec>","DOI":"10.26633\/rpsp.2024.43","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,10]],"date-time":"2024-06-10T16:01:21Z","timestamp":1718035281000},"page":"1","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Tobacco industry strategies to influence the regulation of new and emerging tobacco and nicotine products in Latin America and the Caribbean"],"prefix":"10.26633","volume":"48","author":[{"given":"Eric","family":"Crosbie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States of America."},{"name":"ecrosbie@unr.edu"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brian","family":"Tran","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States of America."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Beatriz","family":"Albuquerque de Figueiredo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, D.C., United States of America."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Luciana","family":"Severini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., United States of America."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gianella","family":"Severini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, D.C., United States of America."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ernesto M.","family":"Sebri\u00e9","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, D.C., United States of America."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"11167","reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Hiilamo H, Glantz SA. 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