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Background The world’s first global health treaty, the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), came into force in 2005. Two years later negotiations for the development of a supplementary international treaty began, drawing from FCTC Article 15 which focusses on eliminating the global illicit tobacco trade. These negotiations led to The Protocol to Eliminate Illicit trade…

Neil Hamilton has been the UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the National Assembly for Wales, representing Mid and West Wales, since 2016. Hamilton was previously the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton (England) from 1983 to 1997.16 From April 1992 to October 1994, Hamilton was the Deregulation and Corporate Affairs Minister at the Department of Trade…

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Mutsuo Iwai is a senior executive at Japan Tobacco Group (JT). In March 2016 he was appointed Executive Vice President, Representative Director, and President, Tobacco Business Headquarters.31 He is also Chairman of JT International Group Holding BV.31 Extensive Career with JT and JTI Iwai joined JT in 1983 and has held several leadership positions, including:31…

Widespread tobacco agriculture has created many challenges; health risks to the farmers (e.g. green tobacco sickness), irreparable damage to the environment in tobacco-growing countries (e.g. widespread deforestation, vegetation loss, and pollution), and child labour practices. Tobacco companies have used tobacco farming to undermine tobacco control measures around the world, arguing that tobacco control measures destroy the livelihoods of small-scale…

The Tobacco Control Research Group’s monitoring and research of tobacco industry (TI) activity has achieved significant national, international and global policy impacts. As outlined below, some of our most impactful research is that which is triggered by our monitoring findings not least because this ensures the policy relevance of our work. Here are some examples: Plain Packaging and the…

What Is the Problem? Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. Each year more than 8 million people die from tobacco-related diseases, and of the 1.3 billion smokers 80% live in low- and middle- income countries.71 In February 2005 the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) came into force to help reduce tobacco use globally, and…

The Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) regularly presents its research findings at national and international conferences. Recent examples: A. Gilmore, K.A. Evans-Reeves, A. Rowell, et al (2018), Monitoring the vector of the epidemic World Conference on Tobacco or Health, 7-9 March 2018, Cape Town, South Africa Drawing on the TCRG’s experience of systematically monitoring the tobacco…

Hill and Knowlton is a public relations (PR) company, owned by PR and advertising conglomerate WPP. Hill and Knowlton were commissioned by the major tobacco companies of the time in 1953 to regain public confidence in the tobacco industry following the revelation by the medical profession that smoking was damaging to health.78 John W, Hill, Hill…

Alex Deane is a senior managing director at the London office of public relations (PR) firm FTI Consulting, which has a long history of working with the tobacco industry.79 Before joining FTI Consulting, Deane worked for PR firms Weber Shandwick and Bell Pottinger, which both represented tobacco companies. 80 Deane was an elected…