In Sweden, members of the parliament attended the greenwashing campaign, “Håll Sverige Rent” (Keep Sweden Clean), of an NGO funded by Philip Morris International and other tobacco companies. In Switzerland, the Federal Office for the Environment formed a partnership with the main tobacco companies and launched a nationwide awareness campaign addressing cigarette littering. Their public message included: “Dispose of cigarette butts correctly because nature is not an ashtray,” a slogan lifted from a past Swiss Cigarette CSR campaign.

The General Police Headquarters of Poland organized a training by British American Tobacco Poland and the eSmoking Institute in Poznań associated with the company on counteracting smuggling of tobacco products. Georgian State Customs received training through a series of anti-illicit trade seminars conducted by Japan Tobacco International. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Administration of Indirect Taxation is implementing the “Stop the Smuggling” campaign in collaboration with the Association of Economists SWOT, which is supported by Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International.

In Korea, the local government of Suwon City endorsed KT&G to set up 33 cigarette butt bins in 23 public facilities and promoted the company’s “Sseudam Sseudam” (cigarette butts in the trash) campaign. Forestry Departments in Pakistan and Sri Lanka endorsed tree planting programs sponsored by local British American Tobacco subsidiaries. The mayor or Bangladesh’s Khulna City Corporation inaugurated the tree plantation “Bonayon” project sponsored by British American Tobacco.

In Lao PDR, the tobacco industry is not fully compliant in applying the 75%-size warnings on all its cigarette packs. In Myanmar, transnational tobacco companies and local cigarette and cheroot producers successfully lobbied for the standardized tobacco packaging implementation deadline to be pushed back. In Bangladesh, the implementation of pictorial health warnings (PHW) to be applied to the upper half of tobacco packs has been delayed since the High Court postponed the government order from 2017, following a further petition by the Bangladesh Cigarette Manufacturers’ Association.

In 2021 in Brazil, the industry used the Tobacco Sectorial Chamber to lobby the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to guide the intervention of Brazil during the ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) negotiations. Through two unregistered meetings, it lobbied the government, with the Minister of Agriculture assuring the industry it would support tobacco producers during COP9. In Colombia, attempts to regulate industry lobbying have not been successful because, although the Anti-Corruption Statute may request information on lobbyists, it does not have specific reference to nor registration for tobacco industry entities.

In Argentina, the tobacco industry has links with different levels of government on child labor issues through the Fundación Vamos Andar-Programa Brazos Abiertos. At the national level, this organization coordinated British American Tobacco Argentina’s sponsored activities on child labor with the National Registry of Rural Workers and the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and Family of the Nation. In Brazil, the Ministry of Labour supports the “Growing Up Right” Institute, a project by Sinditabaco and its associated companies (including British American Tobacco Brasil, Philip Morris Brazil, Japan Tobacco International and Alliance One), which claims to promote education and fight child labor in rural areas.

In Iraq, the Minister of Industry visited Baghdad Tobacco Factory to express support for the tobacco business. In Lebanon, a representative of the British High Commission attended the inauguration of a new production line of the Lebanese state-owned tobacco monopoly, Regie, which was also attended by representatives of international tobacco companies.

In November 2022, Iran’s Vice President of Commerce and Economy promoted Iran Tobacco Company (ITC), a state-owned enterprise, through an agreement with Zimbabwe. The increase in tobacco investment was discussed during a visit led by Zimbabwe’s First Lady to Tehran. Two months later, ITC’s CEO and Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Minister signed an agreement for Zimbabwe to supply tobacco for cigarette manufacturing in Iran or for re-exports to Central Asia. In Iraq, the government provided various levels of support to the national tobacco industry, including tax exemptions and financial facilities.