@Pakhtoon yum
Ok. The people that did the research are not Thai, but the research was done in cooperation with a Thai university.
And making this index was initiated by the South-East Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), which is not Western.
Also, you selected only a few organisations to prove that this index is propaganda.
But when you look at the whole list, you can see plenty of organisations that are working in the fields of (anti-)tobacco, (anti-)smoking, cancer, health etc.
And when you look at the index you can see that the United States (where Bloomberg is based) is placed higher than Pakistan (which means that the United States has more interference from the tobacco industry than Pakistan). India also ranks higher than Pakistan.
So, how do you explain that then?
If Pakistan has less interference from the tobacco industry than the United States, how can this be western propaganda?