Responses
Other responses
Jump to comment:
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016
- Published on: 13 May 2016Watch it BAT(Nigeria) Limited: the days of ignorance are overShow More
British American Tobacco (Nigeria) Limited (BAT) and their cohorts the world over should come to terms with the fact that the truth cannot be hidden forever even from the man on the streets.
Mr Kehinde Johnson did not need to comment at all because there was nothing to comment about! He should have apologised for being a part of this systematic elimination of defenceless people the world over.
Dr. Chri...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016Still A Cannibal In Our Midst!Show More
In June 2002, months before this column was published, I published an essay in a number of Nigerian newspapers entitled: "The 17 Billion Poison House In Ibadan." The piece was my own way of pouring out my spilling disgust and accumulated indignation because of reports in the media earlier in April of the same year that the Obasanjo Administration had celebratorily granted permission to a so-called "leading cigarette comp...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016RE : "tobacco use is risky but counterfeit cigarettes are lethal"Show More
To: BAT Nigeria Limited Mr. Kehinde Johnson Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Director
"Should we swallow a bait and have a lethal hook thrust in our throats just because the bait looked so appealingly delicious? What the tobacco companies manufacture has no single benefit, no redeeming feature. All it does is to kill and ruin .They are unwanted, loathsome and unwelcome "(Ugochukwu D. Ejinkeonye- The Black Busi...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016Who dominates the illegal cigarette industry?Show More
Tobacco leaves which are used for manufacturing cigarettes are cultivated by the tobacco industry themselves, throughout the world.
If the tobacco industry is honestly keen in stopping the availability of counterfeit cigarettes on this earth, they should first of all stop cultivating tobacco leaves. One of the strategies that the industry employs to protect their business is to misuse the illicit cigarette in...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016Response to BATShow More
Dear Mr Kehinde Johnson,
It's so sad that you have joined your CEO to pretend not to know the facts here.
The products you produce in your factory are extremely poisonous apart from being addictive. All tobacco products irrespective of where they are coming from contain considerable quantities of nicotine and alkaloids. It has also been proven that tobacco from low or high yield cigarettes contain the sam...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016Re: Response from BAT NigeriaShow More
BAT Nigeria Limited Mr. Kehinde Johnson Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Director
Re: Risky v. Lethal Cigarettes
Mr Johnson:
I am the former Vice President of R&D of one of your sister companies.
I read your response to Professor Chapman on the issue that counterfeit cigarettes are lethal, whereas genuine brands that you manufacture under controlled supervision are only "risky". Are you i...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016Response from BAT NigeriaShow More
Dear Professor Chapman
I am responding to your email to Dr. Chris Proctor concerning media remarks attributed to Richard Hodgson, Managing Director of British American Tobacco Nigeria that, "tobacco use is risky but counterfeit cigarettes are lethal" which was published in ThisDay of January 16 2005
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) is the regulatory body focusing on tobacco control in Nigeria,...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016Open letter to British American Tobacco & BAT NigeriaShow More
Kehinde Johnson, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Director, British American Tobacco (Nigeria) Limited, writing on behalf of Dr. Chris Proctor, of BAT's UK headquarters, fails to respond to the principal questions asked by Professor Simon Chapman of the University of Sydney and editor of the journal Tobacco Control.
In his posting to Tobacco Control's e-letters page, Mr. Johnson relies heavily on the judgment o...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared. - Published on: 13 May 2016Nigerian Cover (April 2005)Show More
On Jan 19 2005, having been alerted to the extraordinary statement shown on the cover of this issue of the journal (April 2005), I emailed the letter below to Dr Chris Proctor at BAT in the UK. He replied the next day asking when I would need the information sought. I replied immediately that I would like it within a week. No further response has ever been received from Dr Proctor.
I invite him here publicly to n...
Conflict of Interest:
None declared.