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Communications & Network Consulting AG (CNC) is a public relations firm based in Germany. The company has offices in Brussels, London, Seoul, Tokyo, and several offices in Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and India.1 Relationship with the Tobacco Industry In 2014, CNC listed Philip Morris as one of its major clients on the EU Transparency Register.2…

Comoros is an African island located off the east coast of Mozambique and to the northwest of Madagascar is one of the world’s poorest countries.5 The population of Comoros was estimated at 897,000 in October 2020 by the International Monetary Fund. 6 Smoking in Comoros According to the World Health Organization Global Report on Trends in Prevalence of…

The Consumer Packaging Manufacturers Alliance (CPMA) was established to represent the interests of packaging manufacturers, particularly in legislative debate related to plain (standardised) packaging of tobacco products and other tobacco control measures. On the CPMA website, the organisation is described as “an independent advisory body which works alongside the packaging industry and British and European governments…to ensure that packaging…

Imperial Promotes Opposition to Plain Packaging Image 1. Imperial Tobacco cover of The House magazine in plain packaging, June 2012 On June 14th 2012, The House, a weekly political magazine delivered directly to Members of Parliament (MPs), Peers, and civil servants, was presented in a plain gold cover, over the standard issue cover, with the warning “Plain Packaging: Bad…

Corporate Responsibility Consulting is a public relations company that has worked for the tobacco industry.42 Tobacco Industry Activities It has worked for British American Tobacco (BAT)43 and since 1997 has run the Atmosphere Improves Results Initiative (AIR) which is funded by the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association.4445 In June 2000 CRC undertook a joint effort…

Inteligence gathering To monitor opponents and social trends in order to anticipate future challenges Intimidation To use legal and economic power as a means of harassing and frightening opponents who support tobacco control. WHO Definitions of Tobacco Industry Tactics for resisting effective tobacco control, 2009. In public relations…

Colin Wragg was Head of Corporate & Legal Affairs at Imperial Tobacco from January 2011 to October 2014.52 Criticising and Discrediting Public Health Scientists In 2011, Wragg publicly criticised a report53 commissioned by the UK Department of Health and published by University of Stirling Professor Linda Bauld, summarising the impact of England’s smoke-free legislation.54 The…

Clifford Chance is an international law firm, based in London (UK). Working for the Tobacco Industry An article in The Independent in September 2011 revealed that Philip Morris International (PMI) had used the services of Clifford Chance in September 2009 to make an anonymous Freedom of Information (FOI) request on PMI’s behalf. PMI was seeking to force Stirling…

Clifford (‘Cliff’) Fleet was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of Philip Morris USA (subsidiary of Altria Group) from 2013 until 2017.6566 In August 2019 Fleet was appointed CEO of 22nd Century Group, a biotechnology company with a mission “to reduce the harm caused by smoking”.6768 The company is known for regulating…

Background Claire Fox is Director of the Institute of Ideas think tank. 72 She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Economic Policy Centre 73 and was a columnist for The Free Society74 campaign, which was run by the tobacco-industry funded group Forest. In May 2019, Fox was elected as a…