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Press Releases in category "Industry conduct"
July 2008
11/07/2008 OFT investigation: Yet again British tobacco companies show contempt for their customers.
May 2008
01/05/2008 TV presenter joins London day of action against BAT
April 2008
25/04/2008 ASH protests at BAT’s Footprint on Africa
25/04/2008 OFT investigation highlights tobacco industry hypocrisy
July 2007
June 2007
28/06/2007 Tobacco Giants Fiddle While Homes Burn
May 2007
09/05/2007 BAT admits breach of its marketing code.
April 2007
26/04/2007 750,000 die in UK corporate social responsibility scandal
26/04/2007 Tobacco giant's 'School of Cool' recruits young smokers
November 2006
16/11/2006 DTI criticised for 'lukewarm' response on RIP cigarettes - has it been nobbled by tobacco industry
April 2006
27/04/2006 British American Tobacco AGM 2006 Celebrating Exporting Misery to the Poor
February 2006
08/02/2006 BAT deception kept smokers hooked on harmful cigarettes.
August 2005
31/08/2005 Ken Clarke's BAT Role Makes Him Unfit for Leadership
May 2005
31/05/2005 ASH news release 31/05/2005 - McTear vs Imperial Tobacco
April 2005
28/04/2005 BAT in its own words: Tobacco company papers show truth behind greewash
March 2005
08/03/2005 Tobacco group talks nonsense on secondhand smoke
July 2004
May 2004
31/05/2004 World No Tobacco Day - ASH urges FCTC ratification
28/05/2004 Health campaigners thwart BAT's attempts to conceal incriminating documents from public view.
April 2004
21/04/2004 BAT's Big Wheeze - major new report into BAT
December 2003
15/12/2003 Victory for tobacco control campaigners sued for unearthing tobacco industry mole.
November 2003
11/11/2003 Imperial Tobacco's behaviour despicable say ASH
06/11/2003 BAT bows out of Burma
October 2003
27/10/2003 Tobacco lobby to public: keep on choking
September 2003
22/09/2003 Tobacco industry deceit on low tar cigarettes revealed
19/09/2003 Artist protest forces BAT to withdraw sponsorship
May 2003
10/05/2003 Tobacco industry thwarting progress on smoke-free public places
January 2003
10/01/2003 MPs savage Imperial Tobacco over smuggling
November 2002
17/11/2002 Licensed to kill: James Bond goes back to smoking
October 2002
September 2002
August 2002
06/08/2002 How Big Tobacco uses and abuses the restaurant trade - new web site: TobaccoScam
July 2002
03/07/2002 BAT social responsibility report - like the Mafia at church, says ASH.
May 2002
31/05/2002 World No Tobacco Day: BAT weasels its way into World Cup. 180 organisation say 'butt out'
23/05/2002 BAT uses World Cup, English Premier League and top British players to promote smoking in third world
02/05/2002 Imperial profits from smuggling - ASH calls for an inquiry
April 2002
11/04/2002 BAT faces litigation Armageddon after document shredding leads to collapse of Australian cancer case
March 2002
13/03/2002 No Smoking Day release - sheer misery of smoking, in smokers' own words + new web site...
08/03/2002 Smokers: disillusioned with smoking and over-optimistic about quitting. New survey published in BMJ.
01/03/2002 Tobacco boss says don't smoke - ASH comments
February 2002
05/02/2002 'Defensive and reactionary' Imperial Tobacco face hard questions at AGM
January 2002
18/01/2002 ASH backs Dobson Tobacco Disclosure Bill
December 2001
17/12/2001 Dubai ambassador to London organised smuggling of BAT cigarettes - documents show
10/12/2001 Cigarettes on the internet: a new frontier for Big Tobacco
05/12/2001 BAT profits warning - reducing smuggling reduces profits
November 2001
01/11/2001 Analyst reveals truth about tobacco companies' international marketing code - it's a sham.
September 2001
July 2001
17/07/2001 ASH response to Philip Morris' report to the Czech Government on the economic benefits of smoking
05/07/2001 Price-fixing: The Economist reveals BAT, RJR
June 2001
26/06/2001 Kenneth Clarke for Conservative leader? ASH says he is soiled by his association with BAT
07/06/2001 Tobacco verdict: $3 billion hammer blow to Philip Morris in largest ever individual damages
May 2001
18/05/2001 BMJ Editor resigns from Nottingham University over BAT blood money
02/05/2001 BAT annual general meeting: an overview of their conduct
April 2001
02/04/2001 Imperial tobacco's venture in Africa: a cover for more smuggling?
March 2001
17/03/2001 Students picket Nottingham University: Red Face Day follows Red Nose Day
12/03/2001 SASH urges boycott of Nottingham University Open Day
02/03/2001 Tobacco ad ban: new research shows importance of water-tight laws
February 2001
14/02/2001 The BBC's Money Programme looks at tobacco smuggling: ASH asks - who is behind the mafia connection?
January 2001
December 2000
14/12/2000 Top Nottingham student turns down award over tobacco cash
04/12/2000 ASH slams BAT cash for 'ethics'
November 2000
06/11/2000 EU takes US tobacco companies to court over tobacco smuggling
October 2000
30/10/2000 BAT to be investigated by UK Government over global cigarette smuggling
12/10/2000 ASH statement to the WHO hearings in Geneva
10/10/2000 Danger! PR in the playground: new report reveals tobacco giants' sinister strategy on youth smoking
05/10/2000 Tobacco ad ban: industry tactics will be thwarted, but delays cost lives
September 2000
21/09/2000 BAT faces punitive racketeering charges over Colombian smuggling
August 2000
29/08/2000 Brief comment on BAT's submission to the WHO
16/08/2000 FOREST still inhabits flat earth: ASH heaps scorn on tobacco industry passive smoking 'research'
02/08/2000 Tobacco Industry infiltration of the UN & WHO: ASH calls for action
July 2000
31/07/2000 BAT at large in Africa: new documents on smuggling
24/07/2000 Letter to Wall St. Journal on Industry smuggling
20/07/2000 Cigarette smuggling: EU takes legal action against Big Tobacco
April 2000
20/04/2000 A bad year for BAT: but £300 million profit from smuggled cigarettes
07/04/2000 The Lancet publishes damning evidence of tobacco company manipulation of passive smoking science
March 2000
22/03/2000 Tobacco smuggling: at last, a serious & proportional response
February 2000
16/02/2000 Health select committee tobacco hearing: BAT goes head-to-head with ASH
16/02/2000 More evidence of BAT & smuggling
January 2000
31/01/2000 BAT involved in smuggling
December 1999
21/12/1999 Second Health Court victory over tobacco companies in a week
07/12/1999 MPs told 75% of smuggling is due to organised gangs & large scale fraud
October 1999
13/10/1999 Philip Morris 'conversion' 30 years too late
07/10/1999 Letter to The FT about pension fund investment in tobacco
June 1999
07/06/1999 Letter to Economist about smuggling
May 1999
11/05/1999 UK Government could be required to recover health care costs from tobacco companies
March 1999
16/03/1999 Smoking heart victim: out of court settlement
03/03/1999 The safer cigarette: what the tobacco industry could do (and why it hasen't done it...)
01/03/1999 Chancellor urged to increase tobacco tax & ignore tobacco industry smokescreen
February 1999
09/02/1999 Tobacco cases hit by technicality but fight must go on
December 1998
04/12/1998 UK Tobacco litigation starts again
November 1998
19/11/1998 'Strictly confidential' document shows BAT recruiting medical spin-doctors to work in China
October 1998
06/10/1998 WHO passive smoking study: tobacco industry & Sunday Telegraph disinformation nailed
September 1998
07/09/1998 BAT de-merger: legal money laundering
August 1998
31/08/1998 Letter in the FT in response to Philip Morris' claims
12/08/1998 Industry report: irresponsible scaremongering
July 1998
06/07/1998 Judicial review: whinging tobacco King Canutes continue to waste time
June 1998
25/06/1998 'Tell the truth' - ASH confronts the tobacco industry with its own words
03/06/1998 Tobacco 'King Canutes' to attempt judicial review of Government tobacco committee
May 1998
21/05/1998 Nurses lose case but victory on key principle
13/05/1998 MEPs spurn tobacco industry lobbying & vote for health
12/05/1998 MEPs urged 'don't bow to Tobacco's dirty tricks' on advertising
01/05/1998 'Rapacious & predatory' tobacco giant must be candid about litigation risks to shareholders
April 1998
30/04/1998 Secret docs confirm tobacco giant kept smoking dangers from pregnant women
14/04/1998 Marlboro maker had strategy to buy up British scientists to muddy waters on passive smoking
March 1998
08/03/1998 Response to alleged suppression of WHO passive smoking report
05/03/1998 Beware Formula 1 offer: it is mischief & skullduggery designed to wreck the tobacco ad directive
February 1998
15/02/1998 BAT documents show that addicting customers is core business
12/02/1998 Lung cancer victims win first skirmish with tobacco companies
November 1997
05/11/1997 Tobacco bully-boy tactics force Government to weaken commitment to ad ban
October 1997
16/10/1997 Former Health Minister Kenneth Clarke joins BAT Board - shame on him says ASH
15/10/1997 Four changes to the legal system that would bring justice for victims of tobacco
September 1997
11/09/1997 Four changes to the legal system that would bring justice for victims of tobacco
July 1997
01/07/1997 UK litigation - victims say they were deceived
01/07/1997 Public versus private statements by tobacco companies
June 1997
21/06/1997 Press background: summary of the US settlement
21/06/1997 Tobacco deal in the US - the beginning of the end for Big Tobacco?
18/06/1997 Press briefing: US tobacco settlement - what would it mean for the UK
March 1997
21/03/1997 At last the tobacco industry admit that nicotine is addictive
14/03/1997 ASH welcomes Mississippi decision
September 1996
27/09/1996 ASH welcomes legal action against the tobacco industry
July 1996
30/07/1996 ASH faces legal threat from the tobacco indutry
19/07/1996 Dons grab BAT blood money
17/07/1996 Legal Aid Board decision denies justice for smokers
