The Dominican Republic is not a Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The tobacco industry generates contributions in multiple social areas in collaboration with the State. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of the tobacco industry include the construction of schools, support for rural programs and women's empowerment, delivery of scholarships and rural development projects in traditionally tobacco farming communities and financing of university programs. In most of these events, representatives of the central government and/or local authorities were present.