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Industry Uses Legal Claims Across the World A report from Physicians for Smoke Free Canada shows how since the early 1990s tobacco companies have used international trade and intellectual property agreement claims to forestall or block tobacco control measures. 1 1992 – 1998: Thailand’s proposals to require ingredient disclosure Tobacco companies launched repeated efforts to characterise requirements for…

Below you can find pages analysing leaked tobacco industry documents. British American Tobacco The BAT Files: How British American Tobacco Bought Influence in Africa Uganda: BAT’s Tactics To Undermine the Tobacco Control Bill Kenya- BAT’s Tactics to Influence Track and Trace Tender Philip Morris International Alliance of Australian Retailers Anti-Counterfeiting Group Chris…

Laurence Robertson has been the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire, England) since May 1997. Relationship with the Tobacco Industry Accepted Tobacco Hospitality In 2012 Robertson declared he had accepted two tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show from Japan Tobacco International (JTI), “including lunch for my partner and me” at a value of £1,188.5 In…

Lars-Erik Rutqvist is Senior Vice President Scientific Affairs for smokeless tobacco (snus) manufacturer Swedish Match. In 2006, the press release announcing his appointment said: ‘Cancer specialist strengthens scientific competence within Swedish Match’: Professor Lars Erik Rutqvist has a long and solid experience of both clinical and epidemiological cancer research. He stands behind several of the scientific papers…

Lars Olof Lofman was appointed to the post of Senior Vice President of Research and Development (R&D) at Swedish Match in 2017. Career with Tobacco Industry He joined the company in 1987 and has previously served as President of the Smokefree Products Division and Senior Vice President of Product Supply and Innovation, Scandinavian Division.22 He also served as…

Lars Dahlgren joined Swedish Match in 1996 and became the company’s CEO on 1 June 2008.23 Previous roles he held in the company were Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Vice President Group Finance, and Finance Director Swedish Match Philippines.24 External resources Company profile…

Background KPMG is a global accountancy firm, one of the so-called “Big Four”, along with Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst and Young. In 2019 KPMG employed 219,000 people across 147 countries and territories and had global revenues of $29.75billion.25 Relationship with the Tobacco Industry KPMG has strong ties to the tobacco industry dating back…

Klaus-Heiner Lehne is a German lawyer who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994-2014. On 23 January 2014, Lehne was appointed Auditor to the European Court of Auditors by the European Parliament.104 Relationship with the Tobacco Industry Employer Law Firm Had Tobacco Client Lehne was a partner in the Düsseldorf law firm Taylor Wessing,…

Kingsley Wheaton has been a member of the British American Tobacco (BAT) management team since 2012.114 In October 2018 it was announced that Wheaton will succeed Andrew Gray as BAT’s Chief Marketing Officer in January 2019.115 Career with British American Tobacco Wheaton joined tobacco company Rothmans (which was later acquired by BAT) in 1996 and has…

Kind Consumer was a British entrepreneurial healthcare company founded in 2006 by Alex Hearn, which ceased operations in 2020. The company specialised in ‘respiratory drug delivery and tobacco harm reduction’, and its lead product was a licensed nicotine inhaler called Voke.124 From 2010 to 2017 the company had a distribution agreement for Voke with British American Tobacco (BAT).