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March 20, 2019

5.3 e-Updates: March 2019WHO shuns advances by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World | New policy brief | PMAC side meeting   [...]

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Tobacco and E-Cigarette Lobbyists Circle as F.D.A. Chief Exits
March 16, 2019

The New York Times: Sheila Kaplan and Matt Richtel Dr. Scott Gottlieb became commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in 2017 with an ambitious plan to reduce cigarette smoking, a habit that kills nearly half a million Americans each year, by [...]

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Explained: Why a Philip Morris Funded Foundation Is Repeatedly Denounced by WHO
March 12, 2019

The Wire: Anoo Bhuyan The WHO has refused to partner with any foundation that is funded by the tobacco industry to ensure policies are protected from commercial interests. New Delhi: Last week, the innocuously named Foundation for a Smoke Free World [...]

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Commentary: Philip Morris Says It Wants to Quit Cigarettes. But It’s Just Blowing Smoke.
March 12, 2019

Fortune: Matthew L. Myers and Robin Koval   Philip Morris International (PMI)—the giant cigarette manufacturer operating in most countries excluding the U.S.—claims it wants a smoke-free future, placing advertisements in major United Kingdom newspapers earlier this week with a New Year’s [...]

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Quebec Court of Appeal upholds ruling in landmark tobacco class-action
March 7, 2019

Allison Lampert and Martinne Geller, The Global and Mail: The Court of Appeal of Quebec upheld on Friday the bulk of a 2015 decision that awarded around C$15 billion ($11.29 billion)to smokers in the Canadian province, dealing a blow to [...]

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Quebec Court of Appeal upholds ruling ordering tobacco companies to pay billions to smokers
March 7, 2019

Kalina Laframboise, Global News: Quebec’s highest court has upheld a historic ruling that ordered three major cigarette companies to pay billions in damages to smokers in the province. Imperial Tobacco, JTI-Macdonald and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges were appealing a Quebec [...]

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Putrajaya warned against working with tobacco industry-funded lobby groups Draft
February 22, 2019

20 February 2019 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 ― The Malaysia Medical association (MMA) has warned the federal government today against working with groups that are stealthily being funded by tobacco companies. In a press statement, MMA said they stand with [...]

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Over 100 health organisations urge WHO to reject Philip Morris International-led body’s appeal to collaborate on tobacco control
February 11, 2019

New Delhi: Public health experts from over 100 organisations around the world on Tuesday urged the World Health Organisation Executive Board (WHO-EB) to reject a Philip Morris International-funded foundation’s appeal to the global health body to collaborate on tobacco control policies. To do so would depart from WHO’s strict longstanding policy [...]

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WHO Executive Board 144 Panama
February 7, 2019

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR GENERAL AND EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
January 28, 2019

28th January 2019 To the Director General and Executive Board of the World Health Organization, We write to you, as members of the global public health community, to express our grave concern at the attempt by the Philip Morris International-funded [...]

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How tobacco industry donations cloud debates over cigarette controls
January 24, 2019

Free-market thinktanks from Malaysia to Chile and Australia received funding from the industry alongside governments as they argued against tobacco controls Smoking kills more than 27,200 Malaysians every year. In March 2017, Malaysia’s health ministry hoped to reduce that grim tally by [...]

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Revealed: the free-market groups
January 24, 2019

More than 100 free-market thinktanks from North America to Europe and south Asia took positions helpful to the tobacco industry or donations, Guardian investigation shows Free-market thinktanks around the world provide a powerful voice of support to cigarette manufacturers in [...]

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Job openings at the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control
December 6, 2018

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Job Vacancy: Project Coordinator
December 6, 2018

Location: Telecommute; preferably based in Thailand or within Southeast AsiaHours : Full-timeContract: Fixed TermSalary : Negotiable Duties: The Project Coordinator is expected to: Implement and monitor detailed project plan, including provision of technical and administrative support. Coordinate the delivery of [...]

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Job Vacancy: Communications Officer
December 6, 2018

Location: Telecommute; preferably based in Thailand or within Southeast AsiaHours : Full-timeContract: Fixed TermSalary : Negotiable Duties: The Communications Officer is expected to: Elaborate and implement communication strategies and plans, in accordance with the objectives of the project. Assist in [...]

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Scientists Are Rejecting Massive Amounts Of Money For Research From The Tobacco Industry
December 6, 2018

Scientists don’t want tobacco industry funds to touch their work. Multiple Australian researchers have asserted that they will not accept funding or support from a tobacco industry–funded research organisation in an editorial published today. The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) is [...]

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The truth about lobbying: 10 ways big business controls government
December 4, 2018

Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell The Guardian From trying to stop plain packaging on cigarettes to pushing through HS2 and opening the countryside to fracking, big business employs lobbying companies to persuade government to meet their interests. But what are the [...]

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E-cigarettes—new product, old tricks
December 1, 2018

Tobacco smoking cessation represents one of the most successful public health initiatives in the world, with smoking prevalence at its lowest during the past decade according to recent WHO estimates. However, since the introduction of e-cigarettes in 2003, marketed as a [...]

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November 30, 2018

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US seeks $289bn in tobacco claim
November 15, 2018

19 March 2003: BBC News The US Justice Department is suing the world’s leading tobacco companies for $289bn (£184.5bn) of their profits for the alleged fraudulent marketing of cigarettes. A court filing by the US government claims the companies lied [...]

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Malawi: Tobacco Industry Accused of Engaging Children
November 15, 2018

21 Mar 2002 Hamilton Vokhiwa All Africa Nairobi — The Malawi tobacco industry has come under renewed pressure to stop using child labour and to make way for other more economic crops in the country. Tobacco accounts for a significant [...]

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Enticing Third World Youth; Big Tobacco Is Accused Of Crossing an Age Line
November 15, 2018

24 Aug 2001 Greg Winter The New York Times Sara Bogdani had just turned 17 last summer when she slipped into a short skirt and started working as a Marlboro girl. While the rest of her high school friends spent [...]

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Tobacco giant says sorry to Czechs
November 15, 2018

27 Jul 2001 Michael Ellison The Guardian Philip Morris, the US tobacco giant behind Marlboro cigarettes, has apologised for funding a widely derided survey that found that the early deaths of smokers helped governments to save money. “All of us [...]

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Smoking Can Help Czech Economy, Philip Morris-Little Report Says
November 15, 2018

16 July 2001 Gordon Fairclough The Wall Street Journal Cigarette Smokers’ Frequent Early Deaths Offset Federal Medical Costs, Study Finds Philip Morris Cos. officials in the Czech Republic have been distributing an economic analysis concluding that cigarette consumption isn’t a [...]

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The tobacco industry plays price games to make it even tougher to quit smoking
November 9, 2018

By J. Robert Branston, Anna Gilmore, Rosemary Hiscock Source: The Conversation It is thought about two in three smokers want to kick their deadly habit, and with good reason – the same proportion of them are believed to die prematurely because of smoking. [...]

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WHO vows tighter, broader actions against tobacco, industry interference
October 30, 2018

Editor: Mu Xuequan Xinhua GENEVA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) — The World Health Organization (WHO) unveiled a global strategy on Saturday to scale up the tobacco control agenda over the next few years and to prevent further interference by tobacco industry [...]

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COP8 adopts important decision on WHO FCTC Article 5.3
October 15, 2018

On 6 October 2018, the eighth session of the WHO FCTC (COP8) adopted important decision that will strengthen the implementation of Article 5.3 and protect public health measures from tobacco industry interference. Among the issues included in this decision are: [...]

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Side event on tackling tobacco industry interference held at COP8
October 8, 2018

Delegates from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Thailand, in collaboration with the Corporate Accountability and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Secretariat’s Knowledge Hub on Article 5.3 at the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control [...]

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Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals
September 20, 2018

By Charles Ornstein and Katie Thomas: The New York Times [...]

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Saudi Arabia tells WTO it plans to adopt plain tobacco packaging
September 20, 2018

By Tom Miles; editing by David Stamp: Reuters [...]