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Nigel Adams was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby and Ainsty in 2010. Relationship with the Tobacco Industry In May 2013, Adams accepted two tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show from Japan Tobacco International (JTI) valued at approximately £1,050 plus VAT.1 The year before, Adams had also accepted tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show from…

This page is an extention of the Nicoventures page, to explain in detail how, through its directorships, Nicoventures was never a ‘stand-alone’ company – but integral to British American Tobacco (BAT) from the beginning. In August 2013, BAT merged Nicoventures with BAT Research & Development and CN Creative, which meant a complete reshuffle of directors. This page…

Nicoventures is a company set up in 2010 by British American Tobacco (BAT) to focus exclusively on the development and commercialisation of regulatory-approved, non-tobacco nicotine products.21 On the company website it says: Our goal is to help smokers on their journey to quitting by giving them an appealing, licensed alternative as a reduced-harm ‘smoking replacement product’. In other…

Sir Nicholas Scheele was a senior independent non-executive Director of British American Tobacco (BAT) from 2008 to 2013, who served on the company’s CSR, Nominations and Remuneration Committees.4142 Scheele was also on the Board of Reynolds American from May 2014 up to his death in July 2014.43 Background Previously, Scheele was President and Chief Operating…

Nicholas (‘Nick’) Brown has been the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle Upon Tyne East, in England, since June 1983. In October 2016, he was appointed Shadow Chief Whip of the House of Commons. Background Brown has served as: Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (October 2008-May 2010) Minister for the…

Nicandro Durante was the Chief Executive Officer of British American Tobacco from March 2011 to March 2019.47 In September 2018 BAT announced that Durante would retire on 1 April 2019 after having worked for the tobacco company for 36 years.48 Durante was succeeded by Jack Bowles.49…

Since the early 2000s transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) have developed interests in newer nicotine and tobacco products, including e-cigarettes (also known as electronic delivery systems, or ENDS), heated tobacco products (HTPs), snus style nicotine pouches. Companies have referred to these types of product as ‘next…

In February 2013, some 12,000 new Gallaher documents were posted online by the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, which were related to the bitter 3-year legal fight between Gallaher and its ex-Cypriot distributor, Tlais Enterprises 87 In April 2008, Gallaher won in the High Court against Tlais, when it was ruled that the tobacco company had lawfully…

Neil Withington was the Director for Legal affairs and General Counsel at British American Tobacco (BAT).122 In April 2015 he left the tobacco company.122 Career at BAT and Reynolds American Withington joined BAT as Senior Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer in 1993, following a legal career in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. He has held several leadership…

Neil Sherwood worked for Japan Tobacco International (JTI) from 2001 to 2015.126 From 2006 Sherwood was the team leader of the company’s Smoking and Health Group in Scientific and Regulatory Affairs.127128 The remit of this Group covered regulatory science for conventional tobacco products (e.g. cigarettes) and Next Generation Products (NGPs) like e-cigarettes and…