© 2002 Tobacco Control
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Europe: Rodin's non-thinker
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Just like CASIN (see "The Circumlocution Hall of Fame" below), the Belgian Rodin Foundation, whose strapline is "Analysing and taking action", has been contacting health agencies active in tobacco control as if it had no connections with the tobacco industry. Its unctuous approaches even included a disarming if coy plea for us to make allowances for the institutional equivalent of the innocence of youth. In a letter sent to several organisations in Europe, the following explanation was provided. "We are a very young organisation and our activities have just started. We are based in Brussels and are funded by public and private funds." In fact the Rodin Foundation has a contract with the tobacco manufacturers in the Belgian market and will receive 1.85 million Euros (US$1.75 million) annually over five years. Any hint of this funding was strikingly absent in the letter. The foundation says it is in favour of
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