调查结果显示，像菲利普莫里斯国际和英美烟草公司这样的大型烟草企业常常采用秘密策略、毫不掩饰的欺凌乃至借助非法活动来阻止世界卫生组织在2003年制定的烟草控制框架公约（FCTC）在执行领域所取得的进步。
As the investigations showed, corporations like Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco have often used covert tactics, outright bullying, and illicit activities to block progress on the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), established in 2003.