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New Zealand: return of tobacco man

Wellington Medical School, University of Otago, New Zealand;gthomson@wnmeds.ac.nz

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Jim Burns, who in 1994 went from working in the office of the then Prime Minister, Jim Bolger, to be corporate affairs manager of Wills New Zealand, part of British American Tobacco (BAT), is once again in a post that has vital implications for tobacco control. Burns went to work abroad for eight years, most recently in the USA, where he was the vice-president, corporate and regulatory affairs at Lane Limited. Lane was part of BAT and became part of Reynolds American in 2004.

Burns is now back in New Zealand, as executive director of the New Zealand United States Council, which is "the principal organisation representing the business sector as part of New Zealand’s initiative to obtain a Free Trade Agreement with the United States and is committed to enhancing the overall relationship between the two countries". The chairman of the Council is his old boss, former premier Jim . . . [Full text of this article]