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This page was archived on 14 January 2020 and is not actively maintained Save Our Pubs & Clubs: AmendTheSmokingBan.com was a “coalition of groups and individuals who believe that the public smoking ban introduced in Scotland in 2006 and the rest of the United Kingdom in 2007 is excessive and should be amended”.1 Its director was Simon…

Background Big Brother Watch describes itself as a “cross-party, non-party, independent non-profit organisation leading the protection of privacy and civil liberties in the UK”. It states that it uses both advocacy and campaigns and independent research and investigations to “inform policy and public debate”.8 It was founded in 2009 by Matthew Elliot, who also founded The TaxPayers’ Alliance.

This page was archived on 10 February 2020 and is not actively maintained The Twitter-account named @tobacco_tactics is not ours! A few days after the launch of TobaccoTactics.org, a twitter account was set up to impersonate the wiki, and the editors of the site. Using the TobaccoTactics logo and URL, those who set up this account violate…

This page was archived on 10 February 2020 and is not actively maintained Kehinde Johnson was formerly Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Director at British American Tobacco in Nigeria from 2000 to 20051516 and former founder of Rosebank Consulting, which was an environmental and social development consultancy in Nigeria. Since December 2016, he has worked for Monsanto…

Miroslaw Zielinski was appointed Chief New Ventures Officer at Philip Morris International (PMI) in June 2019. His previous role, from January 2018, was President of Science and Innovation.17 On 30 April 2020, Zielinski announced he would take early retirement from PMI on 30 June 2020.18 Extensive Career in the Tobacco Industry Zielinski joined PMI Poland in 1991…

The Brazilian Institute for Ethics and Competition (ETCO) is a non-governmental organisation that works with multinationals and trade associations from the tobacco, alcohol, soft drinks, pharmaceutical, technology and fuel distribution sectors in Brazil. ETCO was co-founded by tobacco companies and receives undisclosed financial contributions from the industry. It lobbies heavily against the Brazilian government’s taxes on cigarettes. Background Based…

Documents released under Freedom of Information by the UK Department of Health reveal that Imperial Tobacco had access to what should be confidential information from the European Council concerning the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision. The European Council is the third pillar of EU decision making along with the Commission and Parliament. It constitutes the Heads of State or…

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): Compliance in Africa The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which came into force in 2005, establishes evidence-based tobacco control measures that parties to the treaty are legally obliged to implement. Despite evidence that the FCTC has led to significant progress in tobacco control worldwide,63 progress in compliance on the African continent…

Below is a list of Trademark or Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) organisations active in the global tobacco control debate, specifically regarding plain packaging. These groups, along with Unifab and UNION-IP, have been known to collaborate together in their efforts to lobby against plain packaging legislation, as they did with these joint statements: IP Associations’ strong concerns with the Irish…

Since its inception in 2017, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World’s (FSFW) primary argument has been to convince people that it is both legitimate and independent, despite receiving all of its funding from Philip Morris International (PMI).69 In order to try and build credibility within the debate on tobacco and health, considerable effort has been spent establishing…