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Plain Pack Group Meeting 1994 A Coordinated Industry Response to Plain Packaging In 1993, representatives from eight international tobacco companies set up the Plain Pack Group, also known as the Plain Pack Working Group, to develop a coordinated, worldwide strategy against plain packaging. Their aim was: “To undertake a global review of attacks on the design, style and…

Background Brendan Halligan is the managing partner of CIPA, a public affairs consultancy. CIPA was hired by the tobacco industry to monitor the decision making process in Brussels in the mid-1990s. CIPA worked for the Confederation of European Community Cigarette Manufacturers (CECCM), a European Union lobbying organisation funded and controlled by the tobacco industry. It promotes what…

Background Dr Arvind Yadav has been a Lecturer in Business Strategy at Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia since May 2011.30 Yadav’s research interests focus on competition and performance in the UK grocery retail industry. He lectures and teaches in the areas of strategic management, marketing strategy and international business.31 Links to the tobacco industry…

On 23 August 2017, an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on illicit trade within a range of sectors, including alcohol and tobacco (but excluding illicit goods such as firearms and narcotics), was announced.343536 The announcement of the APPG came one month after Japan Tobacco International (JTI) hosted an anti-illicit tobacco event, co-hosted by three Members of…

The remit of the All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group (APPSSG) is to “highlight the concerns of the smaller retailer (as distinct from large multiples) and to draw attention to their social as well as economic role.”61 Background Ruth George, the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak in Derbyshire, was appointed Chair of the APPSSG in November…

This page was archived on 7 January 2021 and is not actively maintained Sir David Nicolson was a businessman and politician with strong tobacco industry links who was particularly active during the 1970s and 1980s. Background Nicolson was appointed Chairman of the British Airways Board in 1971 and was a member of the Institute of Directors council from 1971 to…

Simon Richards is Director of The Freedom Association. A Eurosceptic, he runs the Better Off Out campaign, arguing that Britain should leave the European Union. He devised The Freedom Zone, 69 whose partners are the pro-smoking group Forest and The Free Society. 70 Richards blogs in the RightMinds section of the Daily Mail and tweets…

Background The world’s first global health treaty, the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), came into force in 2005. Two years later negotiations for the development of a supplementary international treaty began, drawing from FCTC Article 15 which focusses on eliminating the global illicit tobacco trade. These negotiations led to The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit trade…

Neil Hamilton has been the UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the National Assembly for Wales, representing Mid and West Wales, since 2016. Hamilton was previously the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton (England) from 1983 to 1997.88 From April 1992 to October 1994, Hamilton was the Deregulation and Corporate Affairs Minister at the Department of Trade…

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