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31.05.22

Big Tobacco

Big Tobacco firms advertising on schools’ doorsteps

Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco accused of exploiting legal "loophole" around advertising

25.04.22

Big Tobacco

Paid protesters, free lunches and backroom chats: Inside the menthol lobbying machine

Menthol cigarette makers have tried to stoke fears among Black smokers as part of a campaign against legislation at a federal, state and even city level

02.11.21

Big Tobacco

‘Impossible to enforce’: Big Tobacco exploiting loopholes in European menthol ban

Japan Tobacco International has been able to work around 2020 ban intended to prevent young people from taking up cigarettes

14.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT, bribes and spies in the tobacco industry

A joint investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath has unearthed thousands of leaked documents that reveal a wide-scale corporate espionage operat...

13.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT’s agents brokered Zimbabwe bribe proposal

A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath reveals British American Tobacco (BAT) was linked to a conspiracy to pay a bribe of between $30...

25.04.21

Big Tobacco

Tobacco giant JTI placing stealth adverts for its brands on Facebook and Instagram

The company has been running disguised adverts for its brands, enabling it to bypass social media site rules and national laws on marketing of cigarettes to teenagers and young people

21.02.21

Big Tobacco

BAT’s PR agency tried to bribe Bureau’s Kenyan reporter

An employee of a Kenyan PR agency working for British American Tobacco (BAT) offered a bribe to a journalist to leak details of the Bureau’s investigation into how the company has targeted young non-s...

21.02.21

Big Tobacco

New products, old tricks? Concerns Big Tobacco is targeting youngsters

The Bureau has found British American Tobacco has attracted a new generation of non-smokers to addictive tobacco and nicotine products marketed as trendy and aspirational

25.05.20

Big Tobacco

Big Tobacco use menthol cigarette ban to promote rival products

Big Tobacco has launched new menthol flavours of alternative tobacco and nicotine products in the run up to the menthol ban

04.05.20

Big Tobacco

Underage vaping spikes in the north of England

Data analysed by the Bureau shows that more than a fifth of 15-year-olds in Yorkshire and the Humber regularly vape

30.03.20

Big Tobacco

Big Tobacco criticised for 'coronavirus publicity stunt' after donating ventilators

The world's largest multinational tobacco company PMI has donated 50 ventilators to hospitals fighting coronavirus in Greece

20.03.20

Big Tobacco

Public Health England paid group linked to Big Tobacco

The New Nicotine Alliance, which calls itself an independent body campaigning for alternatives to cigarettes, has extensive links to a group set up by Philip Morris International

20.03.20

Big Tobacco

PMI sidesteps global health treaty to lobby councils

The world's largest multinational tobacco company offered to work with local authorities and schools, despite rules designed to prevent industry influence on public health policy

06.03.20

Big Tobacco

Government vows to protect health policy from Big Tobacco after Bureau investigation

MPs debated the findings of a Dispatches co-produced by the Bureau that revealed Philip Morris International's proposal for a bill to relax advertising restrictions

24.02.20

Big Tobacco

The ‘Unsmoke’ screen: the truth behind PMI’s cigarette-free future

The world's largest multinational tobacco company said it wanted to go smoke-free - but it still sells billions of cigarettes every year

23.11.19

Big Tobacco

Vaping giant Juul pushes for more addictive e‑cigarettes

Juul has built a network of lobbyists and PR firms as it campaigns for strict laws on nicotine products and advertisements to be relaxed

23.11.19

Big Tobacco

Loophole lets Juul advertise to children at the cinema

A screening of a 15-rated film included adverts for Juul, an e-cigarette that can only be sold to adults but is popular with teenagers in the US

21.11.19

Big Tobacco

Juul spreads over the world as home market collapses in scandal

Despite ongoing legal cases and investigations in the US, the vaping business is attempting to expand and is lobbying foreign governments to relax rules around nicotine products

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