How the Tobacco Industry Exploited COVID-19 for Profit

January 31, 2022

As the world struggles to mitigate the devastating effects of COVID-19, the tobacco industry has been hard at work exploiting the pandemic to its advantage. STOP’s Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index uncovered three key ways the industry leveraged desperate governments to gain favor.

A masked man stands in front of a government building, showing how Big Tobacco exploited COVID for policy gains.