APACT: Its Organization and Impact on Resistance to U.S. Tobacco Imperialism

Abstract

This article presents a case study of the formation and first year activities of the Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco Products (APACT). The case study is organized around five key concepts that address the organizing activity that led this coalition of antismoking groups to create a multinational association in the Asia Pacific region. These concepts are need, team building, funding, management and program development. APACT was born out of the need for Asia Pacific anti-smoking groups to resist US trade sanctions. Sanctions which the US threatened to apply to a number of Asia Pacific nations if those nations refused to eliminate trade barriers to US tobacco marketing and sales. The development of APACT's social action program and its impact is presented for the year 1989–90. Also included is a brief statement of APACT's five-year plan for controlling tobacco related diseases.

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