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🎧 Have you listened to series two of our podcast Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco?
If you are interested in #globalhealth, #tobaccocontrol, and protecting policy from corporate interference, this podcast is for you.
Listen here: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
#DeadlyIndustryPod #Research
“Sponsoring cultural institutions is a well-documented tobacco industry tactic. Among public health practitioners and researchers, it’s widely seen as part of the industry’s efforts to improve its public image and achieve policy influence.”
The British Museum has ended its 15-year partnership with Japan Tobacco International #JTI.
Dr Allen Gallagher, Dr Duncan Thomas and Dr Sophie Braznell write for @uk.theconversation.com on what this means for tobacco industry sponsorship of the arts.
Read more: theconversation.com/why-british-...
One week today Hussein Faeq will speak on a webinar arranged by Transparency and Truth about how and why #BigTobacco targets youth and what role prevention efforts can play.
Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5a5f43...
📅 Wednesday 10 December
🕜 7.30am (UK time)
In a new position statement, the @fphuk.bsky.social has announced its support for a #polluterpays levy scheme for tobacco products in the UK.
This policy is influenced by the work of TCRG co-director @robbranston.bsky.social.
Read the statement: www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...
The UK Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2025 has recommendations for how to protect #publichealth from tobacco industry #interference.
These include a register of lobbying & policy influence and consistent application of Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC.
https://globaltobaccoindex.org/country/GB
These steps aim to improve the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution and punishment of those involved in illicit tobacco trade and to further effective control mechanisms for key inputs essential to the manufacturing of tobacco products.
Image: © World Health Organization/Photographer
At #MOP4, which drew to a close yesterday, a number of important steps were established to further efforts to address the illicit tobacco trade.
In the coming years, we will observe the impact of MOP4’s decisions on global #publichealth.
A new South African Tobacco Bill could achieve progress in #tobaccocontrol, but the #tobacco industry has sought to delay and derail it.
Dr Adam Bertscher, Dr Britta Matthes & Dr Allen Gallagher have written for @bhekisisa.org on industry interference in South Africa.
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
“The tobacco industry is constantly innovating and reinventing itself to try to remain one step ahead of public health. Whatever claims these companies make, their true objective remains the same: make money from selling addictive and harmful products.”
The global tobacco epidemic is driven by the #tobaccoindustry which spreads potentially #misleading narratives that serve its interest and threaten #publichealth.
A 🆕 brief brings together evidence to counter common tobacco industry arguments.
More info: www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
Register for next week's @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social seminar with @micahberman.bsky.social.
Professor Berman will present on 'Global Public Health Law: Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy'.
📅 Tuesday 2 December
🕓 3.30pm (UK time)
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/c21ph-semi...
NEW 🔔 : FPH supports a ‘polluter pays’ levy scheme for tobacco products in the UK.
This would cap wholesale tobacco prices whilst increasing tax on tobacco or applying a new health levy, limiting industry profits & generating revenue to achieve a smokefree future.
www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...
“The long term effects of e-cigarette use are still uncertain, but harms established in children and young people today will have future consequences. The failure to protect children’s right to health today could result in harms which span generations.”
A recent analysis in the @bmj.com by Tom Gatehouse, Professor Emily Banks, @brigittoebes.bsky.social sky.social and Dr Raouf Alebshehy, argues that e-cigarette regulation must prioritise the rights of children.
👉 Read analysis: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
#humanrights #tobaccocontrol #rightsofthechild
Evidence shows that children are now using e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults, a consequence of targeted marketing by the nicotine industry.
Under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child #UNCRC, children and young people have the right to health.
To find out more about the #illicittrade in tobacco products and the #tobaccoindustry's own role in this, listen to our podcast episode: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
Image credit: © World Health Organization/Photographer
The 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products #MOP4 has begun today.
At this meeting, Parties to the Protocol will discuss strategies to counter the illicit trade in tobacco products including the smuggling and counterfeiting of cigarettes.
#FCTCCOP11 comes to an end today. Over the following months and years, we will observe how the impacts of the decisions made in Geneva this week take effect across the world.
Huge thanks to our team both at COP and back in Bath who have worked very hard over the week. #tobaccocontrol #research
Amber van den Akker and Geoff Bates sit at the LHGP stand with leaflets and booklets.
Live from @adphuk.bsky.social annual conference! @ambervandenakker.bsky.social, Research Associate, and @geoffbates.bsky.social , Co-Investigator, are welcoming people to the Local Health and Global Profits stand.
#ADPHConf2025
Last year we contributed a chapter on #tobaccocompany interests and #harmreduction to the @rcphysicians.bsky.social report on #ecigarettes. We argue that given their historic actions, the interests of tobacco companies in e-cigarettes pose a threat to #tobaccocontrol.
www.rcp.ac.uk/media/n5skyz...
One of the key items for discussion at today’s #FCTCCOP11 is agenda point 4.5, on the implementation of measures to prevent and reduce tobacco consumption, nicotine addiction and exposure to tobacco smoke in light of the tobacco industry’s narrative on “harm reduction”.
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There are only a few days left to register for our London Global Cancer Week 2025 webinar. Don't miss out!
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
🕜 1pm GMT
Find out more here: https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/how-and-why-the-tobacco-industry-influences-science-and-targets-health-professionals/
Today at #COP11FCTC TCRG members spoke at an engaging side event on lessons learned from WHO FCTC policy implementation.
They joined pannelists from Mexico, Sri Lanka and Ghana who discussed their experiences of and challenges with FCTC policy implementation in their countries.
@philchamberlain.bsky.social, TCRG Project Manager, is attending the Global Investigative Journalism Network Conference.
At #GIJC25 Phil will speak at a session on Investigating Global Health and will support at a training day for journalists covering the tobacco industry.
Last month as part of the @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social, we raised concerns about the BBC's publication of content featuring a tobacco industry executive.
The response received from the BBC did not adequately resolve our concerns, therefore we have escalated our complaint.
Read more 👇
Japan Tobacco International’s name was quietly removed from the Museum’s website last week - the same day that a new report by @tcrgbath.bsky.social highlighted how the deal formed part of JTI’s wider influence & lobbying strategy. www.tobaccotactics.org/news/launch-...
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BREAKING: The British Museum’s controversial partnership with tobacco manufacturer JTI is OVER!
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
- Yet this wasn’t the Museum finally making an ethical choice; instead the sponsorship was ended after an intervention by the Department of Health.
TCRG Co-Director Dr. Allen Gallagher speaks about our important work to identify efforts by the tobacco industry to interfere with proceedings at #FCTCCOP11.
Find out more about interference by the tobacco industry and others in relation to COP 11 & #FCTCMOP4: www.tobaccotactics.org/article/cop-...
We are participating in four side events on day two of #FCTCCOP11. If you are here in Geneva, we hope to see you at one of these events:
💡 Article 19 Implementation
💡 Harm Reduction and Tobacco Industry Interference
💡 Article 5.3 Approaches
💡 Tobacco Industry Narrative on the Swedish Experience
To find out more about WHO FCTC and COP, listen to our recent podcast episode: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
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It is day one of #FCTCCOP11, the global meeting of the Parties to the WHO FCTC. Our team is here in Geneva all week to observe the proceedings, speak during side events and to support knowledge exchange and communications. If you are in Geneva, come visit us at our table on the ground floor.
17.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0In this #research paper, Professor Anna Gilmore, Dr Rachel Barry and Dr Alice Fabbri explore how lessons from tobacco control on addressing conflicts of interest can help to reduce commercially driven health harms: doi.org/10.1016/j.fh....
#FCTCsaveslives
