Côte d'lvoire

2023
2021
Rank 21 from a survey of 90 countries
Global Tobacco Index Score
48

Indicators

Indicator 1: Level of Participation in Policy Development
8
Indicator 2: Tobacco Industry’s Corporate Social Responsibility Activities
0
Indicator 3: Benefits to the Tobacco Industry
8
Indicator 4: Unnecessary Interaction between Government and Industry
3
Indicator 5: Measures for Transparency
10
Indicator 6: Preventing Conflicts of Interest
3
Indicator 7: Measures that Prevent Industry Influence
16
Rank 24 from a survey of 80 countries
Global Tobacco Index Score
50

Indicators

Indicator 1: Level of Participation in Policy Development
8
Indicator 2: Tobacco Industry’s Corporate Social Responsibility Activities
4
Indicator 3: Benefits to the Tobacco Industry
7
Indicator 4: Unnecessary Interaction between Government and Industry
5
Indicator 5: Measures for Transparency
10
Indicator 6: Preventing Conflicts of Interest
0
Indicator 7: Measures that Prevent Industry Influence
16

Côte d'Ivoire became a Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on November 11, 2010. The tobacco industry intervened in the adoption of the Codentify system. Philip Morris International (PMI) which lobbied the Ivorian Ministry of Commerce to adopt it, despite the fact that this system is not approved by the international Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products. The Codentify system (Inter-ministerial Decree Codentify) that was adopted by Côte d'Ivoire as a system of traceability of tobacco products has been strongly supported by the tobacco industry. In addition, the tobacco companies intervened in the drafting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) directive related to the system of tracking and tracing and fiscal verification of tobacco products.