Conduct
The tobacco industry has a long history of denying the health risks of smoking and of contesting tobacco control measures.
A recent report by ASH - Tobacconomics - reveals how the tobacco industry uses pseudo economic arguments to block new health regulations and our report The Smokefilled Room (pdf) sets out how tobacco companies use front groups to disguise their political lobbying.
The Smokefilled Room
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How Big Tobacco influences health policy in the UK - Using previously secret documents from the tobacco companies' own archives, this report reveals the dirty tricks used by cigarette companies to derail UK health policies that could save the lives of thousands of Britons every year
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 31/05/2010
BAT's African Footprint
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A report by ASH documenting the social, economic, health and environmental impact of BAT's activity in Africa.
Author: Published By: ASH Published : 29/04/2008
ASH Letter to Caroline Flint MP
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ASH letter to Caroline Flint the then Minister for Health regarding BAT's marketing to young people.
Author: Deboarh Arnott Published By: ASH Published : 25/04/2007
'You've got to be kidding'
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A compelling dossier of BAT's activities in promoting its tobacco products to young people around the globe.
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 09/04/2007
Tobacco industry initiatives on youth smoking - PowerPoint Presentation
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June 2002: Presentation (36 slides) based on Danger! PR in the playground with graphic examples of youth smoking initiatives and evidence from tobacco industry documents.
British American Tobacco: Exporting Misery
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A casestudy of BAT's efforts to promote smoking abroad, using Kenya as a casestudy and focusing on the environmental damage and exploitation of cheap labour they are responsible for, as well as the use of methods that are no longer legal in this country or many other developed nations in recruiting new nicotine addicts.
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 24/04/2006
Litigation information
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Tobacco lawsuits have been filed in over 30 countries. The document summarises information gathered from 2000-2005
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 12/12/2005
Research Reports and Publications based on tobacco industry documents, 1995-2005.
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Research reports and publications based on tobacco industry documents relating to international issues. This document, by Dr Norbert Hirschhorn, is an update and expansion of an inventory originally compiled by Ross MacKenzie, Jeff Collin and Kelley Lee at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Author: Norbert Hirschhorn Published By: London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine Published : 11/07/2005
The tobacco industry, ETS and the hospitality trade
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Smoking restrictions in workplaces or in public places cost the tobacco industry millions due to a fall in consumption. Using internal tobacco industry documents, this report looks at how the tobacco industry has sought to undermine research and derail attempts to introduce smoking restrictions by building alliances with the hospitality sector
Author: Dehlavi N & Sandford A. Published By: ASH Published : 30/04/2003
Philip Morris study of costs of smoking in Czech Republic: ASH response
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ASH analysis of the Philip Morris study of the costs of smoking in the Czech Republic. Though widely reported as showing that early death of smokers outweighs the extra health care costs while alive, we show the exact opposite is true. Smoking costs 13 times more than the 'benefits' of early death
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 20/07/2001
Tobacco companies involved in price fixing - The Economist
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July 2001: The Economist magazine reveals large scale price fixing activity among BAT and its rivals Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds. Main page of the OECD, featuring their guidelines for multinational enterprises which prohibit price-fixing (...but are toothless).
Author: The Economist Published By: The Economist Published : 30/06/2001
Project Whitecoat: Examines how Philip Morris used scientist to spread disinformation about passive smoking
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A selection of documents related to a massive scientific public relations exercise which involved buying up scientists, infiltrating journals and setting up learned societies.
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 24/08/2000
What we have learned from people: a conceptual collated summary of 18 focus group
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This is a document from 1975 for Ted Bates advertising agency which is a clear example of how the tobacco marketing industry regards its customers.
Author: Ted Bates Advertising Agency Published By: ASH Published : 29/06/2000
What is the future of the Tobacco industry?
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June 2000: a debate from the journal Tobacco Control about the end game for the most disreputable industry in history.
Author: Bates, C. Cunningham R. Glantz S. Scollo M. Published By: Tobacco Control Journal Published : 31/05/2000
The Safer Cigarette
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WHAT THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY COULD DO... AND WHY IT HASN’T DONE IT
A survey of 25 years of patents for innovations to reduce toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in tobacco smoke. Published in collaboration with Imperial Cancer Research fund.
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 01/01/2000
Evidence to the House of Commons Health Select Committee
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November 1999: ASH and Royal College of Nursing evidence to the Health Select Committee describing how the companies responded to scientific bad news about smoking and health. This draws on numerous confidential tobacco industry documents revealing a history of denial and duplicity.
Author: ASH, Royal College of Nursing Published By: ASH Published : 30/09/1999
Quotations from 'TOBACCO WARS': A BBC documentary
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Quotations from 'TOBACCO WARS'- A BBC documentary on the history and politics of tobacco, transmitted in July/August 1999
Author: BBC Published By: Complied by ASH Published : 30/06/1999
Industry job losses
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August 1998: The impact of tobacco policies on tobacco industry jobs. The tobacco industry claims that tobacco control initiatives will cost jobs and that is a further reason why Government action to tackle the widespread disease and addiction caused by tobacco should be limited. In fact most jobs have been lost to automation.
Author: Amanda Sandford, Clive Bates Published By: ASH Published : 31/07/1998
Tobacco Explained
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The truth about the tobacco industry in its own words. The story of tobacco industry's astonishing record of deceit and denial told through its own confidential documents. The company documents were released during legal action in the United States. Covers smoking and health, addiction, advertising, marketing to kids, passive smoking, the drive into developing countries.
Author: ASH Published By: ASH Published : 24/06/1998
Debating Tobacco - ASH vs. Tobacco Industry
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April 1998: Debate between ASH and the UK Tobacco Manufacturers Association covering many different areas of the tobacco issue. First published in Punch.
Author: Clive Bates, John Carlisle Published By: Punch Published : 10/04/1998
George W. Bush and the tobacco industry
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April 2001: Excellent account of the links between key figures in the Bush administration and Big Tobacco by Rob Weissman on 'CorpWatch' (US). [Also see a 1999 article from The Nation ]
Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control
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The Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control was devised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants and backed by the London School of Economics. It is therefore a legal requirement of UK listed companies to comply with the guidance. It is the first guidance on internal control that obliges companies to take account of environmental and social risks. 2005
The Tobacco Industry and the Health Effects of Smoking
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Health Select Committee
June 2000: Outstanding UK parliamentary report on the tobacco industry, going through its claims and history of deceit with surgical precision. Concludes that a much tougher regulatory authority is needed and that BAT should be investigated for smuggling.
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Tobacconomics
This report by ASH reveals how the tobacco industry uses pseudo economic arguments to block new health regulations.
