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This page was archived on 22 September 2020 and is not actively maintained This organisation is now defunct The Latest Front Group From Forest Image 1. Mockup cover of Consumer Choicefrom Simon Clark’s blog Forest’s “Latest Project” Action on Consumer Choice (ACC) is a front group set up by the tobacco industry front group Forest. ACC, which is modelled…

Background The Academy of Ideas (formerly known by its trading name the Institute of Ideas) is a UK think-tank that forms part of a pro-corporate libertarian network.13 Pro-Smoking People affiliated with the organisation have consistently taken a pro-smoking stance: In January 2017, Rob Lyons (Science and Technology Director in 2019)14 claimed, in an article for Spiked magazine, that…

Related to the TobaccoTactics page on the Adam Smith Institute History of Being Funded by the Tobacco Industry British American Tobacco In the 1980s, British American Tobacco supported the Adam Smith Institute (ASI), first with small donations in 1981 and later, increasing amounts of UK£500 in 1987 and UK£750 in 1988.25262728 Tobacco Advisory Council…

APCO Worldwide (formerly known as APCO Associates) is a public relations (PR) company that is headquartered in Washington, and has more than 30 offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle-East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.40 The company has a long history of working with the tobacco industry, particularly in setting up front groups and grassroots organisations to be…

Background The West African country of Ghana sits on the Atlantic Ocean and borders Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso 71With an estimated population of 29.6 million in 2018, it became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence in 195772 Demographically, Ghana has a young population, with approximately 38% under the age of 15…

ProYosi (“Pro-Cigarette”) is a smokers’ consumer advocacy group based in Iloilo City, the Philippines, campaigning against what it views as discrimination of the country’s 17 million smokers. 85 It was incorporated as a registered non-profit organisation86on 26 February 2016, although its existence pre-dates this by several years according to local health advocates. 87 ProYosi calls itself…

Background A trade association is an organisation founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific sector or geographical region.109 Trade associations promote the interests of their members. As such some have supported the tobacco industry, by helping lobby on their interests as members. On this page there is a selection of trade associations from around the globe…

This page gives a basic summary of what e-cigarettes are, how they work and what they contain. It does not attempt to describe or assess their safety. What Are E-cigarettes? E-cigarettes, also known as electronic cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), work by heating a nicotine containing liquid, producing emissions usually described as a ‘vapour’. They consist of a…

Alun Davies has been a Labour Member of the Welsh Assembly since 2007; first for the Mid and West Wales Region, and from 2011 for Blaenau Gwent. In 2018 he was the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and Public Services. Before he entered the Welsh Assembly, Davies set up a PR company in Cardiff called Bute…

Background Using Lobby Groups is one of the ways in which Tobacco Companies are Lobbying Decision Makers. Lobby Groups act on behalf of the tobacco industry, contacting regulators and policy makers with the aim to influence regulation and legislation. The page on Lobbying Decision Makers explains the issue in more detail, discussing – amongst other things…