“Profits Over People” is the result of over a year of investigation of more than 10,000 pages
of internal tobacco company documents, mainly from Philip Morris and British American …

+ A dictator plunders billions from his nation's treasury. Soon for exile, he oVers some ill-
gotten millions to one of his land's universities, insisting that it fund a new school of social …

In the fall of 2000, Philip Morris re-initiated an external research grants programme (“Philip
Morris External Research Program”, or PMERP), the first since the dissolution of the Council …

E ditor,—I have read and re-read, with great interest and enormous puzzlement, the
American Medical Association (AMA) report “Reducing the addictiveness of cigarettes” 1 …

Background: Philip Morris (PM) launched the Philip Morris External Research Program
(PMERP) in 2000, two years after the company agreed to the dissolution of two industry …

Tob Control: first published as 10.1136/tc. 11.1. 1 on 1 March 2002. Downloaded from as
gratuitous,“cheap, sensationalist and 100 per cent exploitative”. 9 Hong Kong Council on …

There are two essential elements of a policy analysis:(1) it should provide an accounting of
all harms and benefits of a proposed policy and then weigh these harms and benefits1–3; …

Presents various comments on drug and alcohol abuse articles in the'Addiction'journal.
Relations of the drinks industry and the International Life Science Institute; Brief …

Anyone who has been to South Asia will know that the prevailing sound in many of its
bustling cities is that of scooters, small motorcycles, and their larger rickshaw siblings, all …

In a major recent review of the causes of death in the USA, 1 Mokdad and colleagues found,
unsurprisingly, that ''smoking remains the leading cause of mortality''. The authors also …