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...

🌟 Next Thursday, TCRG will be contributing to a webinar on #tobaccocompany lobbying and influence on public #healthpolicy organised by the @whofctc.bsky.social Knowledge Hub on Surveillance.

Find out more and register: extranet.who.int/fctcapps/fct...

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"PMI's 2025 target was not 'aspirational' but highly conservative - it would have been met based on pre-existing trends in declining cigarette shipments."

For a #tobaccocompany to truly become ‘smoke-free’, it would need to stop producing, shipping & selling cigarettes.

In our latest paper we analyse data on PMI’s #cigaretteshipments against its own targets to examine how aspirational they really are.

Read: tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

"The tobacco industry are using and will continue to use their investments in tobacco and nicotine products to recruit new users who otherwise would not have initiated smoking ... and secure influence and access to policy circles from which they have been excluded." Dr Rachel Barry, Prof. Anna Gilmore

We have contributed a chapter on #tobaccocompany interests & harm reduction to the Royal College of Physicians report on #ecigarettes

Given their historic actions, the interests of tobacco companies in e-cigarettes pose a threat to tobacco control progress globally

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