Type of group | Number of groups | Number with closed membership | Number with open membership | Range of number of members | Number of the groups with BAT network members |
BAT employee group (companywide and regional) | 32 | 10 | 22 | 1–1090 | 21 |
BAT cigarette brand group | 26 | 2 | 24 | 1–685 | 5 |
Advertising or promotion agency group | 12 | 4 | 8 | 7–1724 | 0 |
Anti-BAT or anti-smoking | 11 | 0 | 12 | 13–3025 | 0 |
Recruitment/career opportunity | 2 | 0 | 2 | 242–573 | 1 |
Pro-tobacco use | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31–105 | 0 |
Other (not a tobacco or tobacco control focus) | 3* | 0 | 3 | 23–55 | 0 |
↵* The remaining eight groups had the search words British, American and Tobacco in the description but did not refer to British American Tobacco (BAT) directly.