Tobacco firms wield destructive proxy control with no economic stake in the country harmed.

Evidence

The peculiarity of this exercise of proxy control is that there is virtually no trading between these two countries. In commenting on the lawsuits, Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of WHO, described the legal counteroffensive metaphorically: “The wolf is no longer in sheep’s clothing, and its teeth are bared” (Chan, 2012). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1709

Categorization

• XREF: The tobacco firms’ sanctions against another country’s health law with no reciprocal trade echoes how institutional violence scales in Cooper-style conservative policy arguments — power detached from local consequences.
• SHARE: A WHO director calling out tobacco-industry legal intimidation via proxy-control framing is niche material for someone tracking corporate accountability cases.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1709