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Ruder Finn, Inc. “is one of the world’s largest independent global communications and creative agencies with dual headquarters in the United States and China”1 It has numerous corporate clients, including an association with the tobacco industry that stretches back decades. Background Ruder Finn was founded by David Finn and William Ruder in 1948, with singer Perry Como the agency’s…

Euromonitor International is a market research company which provides analysis at a global and country level on services and products, including tobacco.40 It produces reports and data on market size, company and brand market share and industry trends.41 Euromonitor’s paid-for data service is used by numerous academic, corporate and governmental organisations. The University of Bath’s subscription was established…

Background Waterpipe has different names in different countries such as narghileh, shisha, hookah, hubble-bubble, or goza. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines waterpipe tobacco smoking as “a form of tobacco consumption that utilizes a single or multi-stemmed instrument to smoke flavoured or non-flavoured tobacco, where smoke is designed to pass through water or other liquid before reaching the smoker”.48…

The Centre for Agricultural Transformation (CAT), a science, technology and business incubation centre, was founded in May 2019 in Lilongwe, Malawi and funded by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW).16429 The stated aim of CAT is to support smallholder Malawian farmers in diversifying their incomes and livelihoods to reduce their reliance on tobacco farming. The project…

The NOSMOKE institute, also known as the Institute for a Smoke-Free Society, describes itself as an organisation “founded to promote the elimination of smoking. It operates as a research and innovation centre in the field of modified risk products (MRTPs)”.181 Background The institute is a commercial endeavour of Konstantinos Poulas, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Patras,…

Knowledge-Action-Change Limited (K-A-C) is a private organisation founded by Gerry Stimson. It is funded by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW), which is in turn funded by Philip Morris International (PMI). Background K-A-C was founded by Professor Gerry Stimson in 2011,201 along with its communications arm, KAC Communications, in 2014.202 K-A-C and KAC…

The Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR), an interdepartmental Research Centre, was founded in March 2018 by Riccardo Polosa at the University of Catania, Italy.258259 CoEHAR is one of the multiple “Centres of Excellence” set up with Foundation funding as hubs for research on tobacco harm reduction. For more information on the Foundation,…

Key points Menthol cigarettes make up 10% of the global cigarette market. Using flavouring agents as additives is thought to establish and sustain tobacco use, particularly among young people. Cigarettes with flavour capsules in the filter create novelty and interactivity and are more popular among young people. Sales of capsule cigarettes are high in some countries, including South Korea and…

Mural of Greta Thunberg on Tobacco Factory in Bristol, UK. “Bristol” by nicksarebi is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Key points The tobacco industry is a major contributor to both human and environmental damage. Tobacco products pollute the air with toxic smoke and the ground with waste, but the entire life cycle of products is damaging to the…

STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) has been producing a regular COVID-19 Monitoring Brief detailing the trends and patterns of tobacco industry behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can now access all of this monitoring data via the Tobacco industry COVID-19 monitoring database on this page. Discover how the tobacco industry has used Corporate Social Responsibility to protect…