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29-31 December 2001


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BAT Promotes Executive in Smuggling Row
Smoking can be a drag on your wallet
Secret of 1 in 4 Smokers


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BAT Promotes Executive in Smuggling Row
British American Tobacco faced criticism last night over the promotion of an executive named in damning documents detailing how the London-based company systematically exploited cigarette smuggling.
Paul Adams - repeatedly mentioned in internal memos and notes handed by campaigners to Department of Trade and Industry investigators - has been made the new managing director of the world's second biggest tobacco corporation.
The appointment, approved by the full BAT board, including former Tory chancellor and health secretary Ken Clarke, has raised fresh questions about the company's behaviour in the global cigarette market.
Mr Adams, a former Europe director, was a top marketing figure in Asia during the eight years from 1991 during which controversial tactics were used to boost sales, including dubious deals with smugglers.
BAT denies any involvement in smuggling, yet company files held by Mr Adams in the early 1990s reveal that illegal trade conducted under a series of euphemisms, including 'transit', was a core part of the firm's business.
In one marked "secret - no file copy", but kept by Mr Adams, a distributor reports on how a Singapore tobacco advertising ban was circumvented while another said "unofficial channels" were the best way to beat restrictions in China.
Source: The Guardian. Full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,625983,00.html
Smoking can be a drag on your wallet


The Sunday Express prints a report on the money that can be saved by quitting smoking. In addition to the £1500 a year saved by the 20-a-day smoker simply by not buying cigarettes, the Express estimates that the smokers can save over £25,000 over 20 years on insurance premiums, life assurance and critical injury cover.

However, the Express does point out that,because they die younger, smokers receive larger pension annuities- 10% more than non-smokers who have paid the same pension contributions.

Source: Sunday Express.


Secret of 1 in 4 Smokers
Monday’s Express reports that a quarter of adult smokers try to hide their habit, according to new research. These smokers hide their smoking from parents, their children, or non-smoking friends, despite many admitting that the deception made them feel guilty or foolish. Nearly one in 10 of the 1357 smokers questioned said theyhad to hide their addiction from someone over the festive period.

Gay Sutherland, a research psychologist in the Tobacco Research Section of the Institute of Psychiatry siad “What some may consider sad or even devious behaviour is an indication of their high level of addiction.”

Source, Daily Express, 31/12/01.








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