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London Economics describes itself as one of Europe’s leading economic consultancies,1 which provides “high quality, independent advice to clients in both the public and private sectors on economic and financial analysis, policy development and evaluation, business strategy, and regulatory and competition policy.”2 Plain Packaging In January 2012, London Economics published a report “The role of packaging imagery on…

Lobbying To make deals and influence political processes. WHO Definitions of Tobacco Industry Tactics for resisting effective tobacco control, 2009.” Industry lobbying of decision makers can takes various forms, both direct and indirect. Here at TobaccoTactics.org, the term Direct lobbying is used to describe the Tobacco Industry making contacts with policymakers to influence legislation and regulation.

Overview PMI IMPACT-funded projects around the world have predominantly focused on areas that are beneficial to PMI’s reputation and commercial objectives. Most notably, the projects promote: Enhancing public-private cooperation – a concept which has been used by transnational tobacco companies as a way to undermine tobacco control8 and in conflict with article 5.3 of the Framework Convention…

Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle has been the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Chorley, Lancashire in England, since May 1997. In June 2010, he became Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Chairman of Ways and Means. Relationship with the Tobacco Industry Accepted Tobacco Hospitality In 2013 Hoyle accepted two tickets to the Chelsea Flower show worth £1,260 from…

Professor Linda Bauld is Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Institute for Social Marketing at the University of Stirling. She is also Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, a Centre for Public Health Excellence covering 13 universities.173 Bauld’s research profile provides details of her work as follows: “She has conducted…

The Liberty League was a network of young libertarians that described itself as “a network of students and professionals committed to the promotion of freedom”.189 People The Director of the Liberty League, also one of the founders, was Anton Howes, who studied War Studies at King’s College London, and went on to become a Lecturer in Economic History at…

Liberal Vision’s LinkedIn page describes it as a ‘think tank created for libertarians within the Liberal Democrat Party to push forward libertarian policies within the party’.198 According to the organisation’s website: Liberal Vision exists to promote individual liberty, a free economy and limited government. We advocate these goals within the Liberal Democrats, among the political and media community,…

A letter to the editor published in The Telegraph on 9 March 2011 209 attacked the British Government’s proposed changes to the Point of Sale Display Ban as well as Plain Packaging. On the surface, it was signed by 11 independent think tanks and other organisations that were being critical of Government smoking and health policy.

As explained in detail on the Linda Bauld page, the professor of socio-management at Stirling University’s Institute for Social Marketing was the target of criticism by Big Tobacco and eventually subjected to a smear campaign in the blogosphere by pro-smoking bloggers. The scale of personal attacks aimed at discrediting her work on smoking behaviour and anti-smoking legislation was…

Litigation: To challenge laws and intimidate tobacco industry opponents. WHO Definitions of Tobacco Industry Tactics for resisting effective tobacco control, 2009. The tobacco industry has a history of using litigation against its critics, tobacco control programmes, and regulation that affects its sales. Historically, the industry has always attempted to influence policy through legislation directly and through third…