tobacco industry – O Joio e O Trigo

Brazilian tobacco companies supply leaf to Paraguayan manufacturers linked to smuggling

Pedro Nakamura — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:06:29 +0000

Tobacco magnate Horacio Cartes, president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018, has a notorious reputation. Owner of Tabacalera del Este (Tabesa), the country’s leading cigarette manufacturer, Cartes also holds a 17% share of the Brazilian tobacco market despite not having products legally registered in Brazil, according to industry data. Listed by the 2003 CPI (Congressional Inquiry Commission) on…

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Juul considered launching a “low-cost vape” in Brazil and selling it in neighborhood bars and markets

Pedro Nakamura — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:11:43 +0000

U.S. electronic cigarette maker Juul explored launching “low-cost vapes” in Brazil, considering distribution in bars and small neighborhood stores where anti-smoking rules are “generally not enforced”, internal company documents reveal. These records, reviewed by Joio, were obtained from the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents (TTID) archive at the University of California. Brazil was a priority…

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When the tobacco industry is divided

Raquel Torres — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:44:28 +0000

If we think about the tobacco industry, we can imagine a homogeneous block, with big companies united around the same interests. In reality, however, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Of course, industry leaders do have a lot in common: they want to circumvent tobacco control programs, maximize their profits and convey an image of social responsibility. It so happens that these companies…

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Cheaper cigarettes: how this idea got so far (and why it didn’t work out)

Raquel Torres — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:44:23 +0000

Less than three months after taking office as Minister of Justice and Public Security in the Jair Bolsonaro government, Sergio Moro signed an ordinance which brought the jitters among those who work in tobacco control in this country: the document dated March 23 2019 established a Working Group (WG) to assess the “convenience and the opportunity” of a tax reduction on cigarettes manufactured in…

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Bolsonaro deputy leader admits to being “in cahoots” with Minister Onyx to extinguish anti-tobacco collegiate

Maíra Mathias — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:23:19 +0000

With connections to tobacco industry interests, federal representative Marcelo Moraes (PTB-RS) admitted on video to having taken part in a scheme to put an end to Conicq, the National Committee for the Implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (Comissão Nacional para a Implementação da Convenção-Quadro para o Controle do Tabaco). Moraes stated he had been “one of the…

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