Table 2.
Overview of formal written evidence cited by transnational tobacco corporations (TTCs) in their submissions to the UK standardised packaging consultation 2012
| Theme of evidence | Standardised packaging ‘won't work’: no evidence of impacts on smoking behaviour | Standardised packaging ‘will have negative unintended consequences’ |
The policy process was ‘flawed’ | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How cited by TTCs | Economic | Illicit | IP/Trade | Price | |||
| Promoted | 77* | 3 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 131 |
| Contested | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| – | 4 | 18 | 5 | 9 | – | – | |
| Total | 88 | 36 | 19 | 143 | |||
*The evidence examined further in this article. Bold text indicates totals.