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.

Tobacco lawsuits have been filed in over 30 countries. The document summarises information gathered from 2000-2005

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.

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

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

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).

A selection of documents related to a massive scientific public relations exercise which involved buying up scientists, infiltrating journals and setting up learned societies. 

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.  

June 2000: a debate from the journal Tobacco Control about the end game for the most disreputable industry in history.

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.

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.

Quotations from 'TOBACCO WARS'- A BBC documentary on the history and politics of tobacco, transmitted in July/August 1999

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.

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.

April 1998: Debate between ASH and the UK Tobacco Manufacturers Association covering many different areas of the tobacco issue. First published in Punch.

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 ]

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

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.