BAT's Big Wheeze - the alternative report (Purchase £5.00)

April 2004: A major report jointly produced by ASH, Christian Aid and Friends of the Earth examining the British American Tobacco's claims of being a socially responsible company. This report shows that though BAT tries hard to convince shareholders and governments of its CSR credentials, its operations around the world leave a lot to be desired.

Behind the Mask: The real face of corporate social responsibility (External Web Page)

January 2004: The image of multinational companies working hard to make the world a better place is often just that - an image, says a new report from Christian Aid. What's needed are new laws to make businesses responsible for protecting human rights and the environment wherever they work, the report concludes.

Multinational Monitor. "Bad apples in a rotten system: the 10 worst corporations of 2002." (ASH Archive Collection)

2002 will forever be remembered as the year of corporate crime, the year which even saw President George Bush embracing the notion of "corporate responsibility." In a roundup of the year, the Multinational Monitor names the ten worst corporations. BAT easily made it on their list, defeating its own standards of CSR.

BAT's socially responsible smoke screen (ASH Archive Collection)

The magazine PR Watch takes a long hard look at BAT's claims of social responsibility. A detailed and in depth analysis of the duplicity of the tobacco company's stance. PR Watch, Fourth Quarter 2002, Volume 9, number 4.

BAT social report revisited: ASH comes to BAT (ASH Archive Collection)

A detailed critique of BAT's first social report. We evaluated BATs performance against criteria set by Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability and found the company measurably and demonstrably wanting.

British American Tobacco - the other report to society (Purchase £5.00)

June 2002: ASH's response to British American Tobacco's 'stakeholder dialogue' and its social reporting. We explain exactly why BAT is irresponsible and unethical - and it's much more than merely selling deadly products.

ASH perspective on 'ethical investment' and tobacco companies

The outcome of discussion with a large pension fund on how a responsibly-motivated investor could apply constructive pressure to a tobacco company in which it owned shares - a process known as engagement.

BMJ - Tobacco company prepares its first social responsibility report (External Web Page)

Journal article in BMJ by Bob Burton on British American Tobacco's first social responsibility report. 10 November 2001. BMJ 323: 1089

BAT wants a stakeholder dialogue - ASH response

BAT tries to engage ASH in 'stakeholder dialogue' using senior clerics as intermediaries. In these three letters ASH explains why we will not talk - principle, practicality and process. We do not oppose dialogue with companies, even tobacco companies - but BAT are nowhere near the starting line.

Trust Us: We're the tobacco industry (Spanish version)

Trust Us: We’re The Tobacco Industry (Purchase £10.00)

A devastating assembly of tobacco industry quotes covering addiction, advertising, economics, agriculture, developing countries, secondhand smoke, smuggling, product design, youth and the companies' own anti-smoking programmes, women, lobbying and media relations. It also challenges the companies' attempts to distance themselves from the past.

Trust us: we're the tobacco industry PowerPoint Presentation

May 2001: ASH and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids released a report that brought together a devastating collection of tobacco industry quotes. This presentation brings together only some of the quotes from that report.

Tobacco chief forced out of GlaxoSmith Kline (ASH Archive Collection)

After a highly organised campaign by health campaigners and institutional shareholders.  The chairman of Imperial Tobacco, Derek Bonham, was forced to stand down from the board of GlaxoSmith Kline, the pharmaceutical company which makes smoking cessation drugs. This report is from the UK Sunday Business.

ASH Letter to GlaxoSmithKline

Regarding the Chairman of Imperial Tobacco, Derek Bonham, being on the board of GlaxoSmithKline.

BBC interview with David Davies of Philip Morris International (ASH Archive Collection)

A interview by Tim Sebastian on Hard Talk, BBC (March 2001) with David Davies, Vice-President, Philip Morris International.  Historians may like to compare it with a 1976 interview with Philip Morris executive, James Bowling which contained many of the same platitudes and postures.