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Tobacco Control 1998;7:116; doi:10.1136/tc.7.2.116d
Copyright © 1998 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
Tob Control 1998;7:116 ( Summer )

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BAT attacks

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As previous issues of Tobacco Control have reported, BAT has long been putting out disinformation by the truck-load. For example, it sets up special seminars to reach journalists from developing countries, no doubt viewed as potentially more easily persuaded of its propaganda than those from countries where tobacco's number is up. And it has certainly played its full part in getting the tobacco industry the sort of name for scientific integrity that, say, a pit full of vipers has for personal safety. But such activities have usually been undertaken in a situation where it has relatively firm control. Recently, however, in its home territory of the United Kingdom it has stepped out of the sidelines and put its foot straight into, well, onto the public stage. In short, it has tried some up-front, pro-active media initiatives.

First came an extraordinary attempt to set the record straight after damaging publicity in . . . [Full text of this article]
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