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In Madagascar, tobacco companies use local projects to expand their influence

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In Madagascar, tobacco companies fund reforestation projects in producing regions and donate equipment to health centres under the guise of social responsibility. Health actors denounce a strategy intended to increase the industry's influence, according to L’Express de Madagascar.

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