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Kenya: BAT at it again
but it's changed
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We have reported extensively in past issues on the disgraceful seminars held by BAT for journalists from developing countries, to "put the other side", give a "more balanced view", and generally assist them, industry style, with their journalistic work on the smoking "debate" or "controversy". Now it has done it again, despite protestations issued in countries where incriminating internal documents have been widely exposed, that it has changed its ways. Sure, BAT, like rival Philip Morris, has put together a website that appears to acknowledge the scientific evidence against active (though expressly not passive) smoking. However, a cursory glance by anyone with more than a passing interest will see what an incomplete, unsatisfactory collection of weasel words and agenda changing much of it is. However, as is evident from so many of the items in this journal, what seems to have changed is the strategy rather than overall behaviour.
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