Australia: BAT corporate social irresponsibility
British American Tobacco (BAT) is as noisy trumpeting its odious claims to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Australia as it is anywhere, despite a private admission some years ago that the country holds little for it in the future. But in its 2003 Social Report, BAT made a claim so absurd that even some of its allies must now be embarrassed.
Despite doing its utmost over many years to stop effective health warnings being put on cigarette packs, in case its customers were to get a better idea of what its wretched …
