The tobacco control movement is a term used to describe organizations opposed to the practice of smoking, or those which advocate strict regulation of tobacco products due to their associated health risks and addictive potential. Rationales for such advocacy generally include concern over the public health costs of smoking, as well as the hazard posed to non-smokers by secondhand smoke.
The tobacco control movement was pejoratively referred to as the "anti-smoking movement" in internal tobacco industry memoranda, to describe organized threats to their business interests and denigrate public health concerns.
