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Australia: industry flies the surrender flag
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A recent commentary in Tobacco Control outlined the nature of the relation between universities and research institutions, and research funding from tobacco companies.1 The article also addressed ways of countering this relationship. Revelations from the tobacco industry's internal documents from Australia show how effective pressure can be brought to bear by those who fund and participate in research by denying funding to organisations and individuals that take tainted tobacco dollars.
Australian tobacco companies established the Australian Tobacco
Research Foundation in the 1970s and distributed grants through a
scientific advisory committee. Its name was later given a public relations facelift and changed to the Smoking and Health Research Foundation. Its funding came from WD and HO Wills, Rothmans, and Philip
Morris, each contributing around $500 000 per year.2 3 Between 1970 and 1994 the foundation disbursed over $A9 million in
grants.4 Its mission was "to conduct research into the
relationship in Australia between smoking and
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