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Tobacco Control Research Group
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Award-winning team researching tobacco’s influence on policy. Views ours, not the University of Bath. Share info in confidence http://tobaccotactics.org.
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🎙️ Series 2 of our podcast Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is here! 🚨

🎧 Listen and share to help us hold this deadly industry to account: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...

@uniofbath.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social
Our latest #TobaccoTactics page details interference around #FCTCCOP11 and #FCTCMOP4.

This new page includes information on activity by tobacco associations, tobacco industry media, third parties and other organisations.

Read the page: www.tobaccotactics.org/article/cop-...
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🚭 There is still time to register for @robbranston.bsky.social's #webinar on tobacco price cap regulation at the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame.

Wednesday 12 November
9:00am (AEST)
tobacco-endgame.centre.uq.edu.au/event/sessio...

#TobaccoEndgame #PublicHealth
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📢 Announcing the UK Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2025, part of the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index.

The UK is ranked 17 out of 100 countries, based on evidence captured between April 2023 and March 2025.

www.bath.ac.uk/case-studies/the-uk-tobacco-industry-interference-index-2025/
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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In a year that marks the 20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, #FCTCCOP11 is an important opportunity for Parties to come together to address the global #tobaccoepidemic by advancing #tobaccocontrol policies.
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We will be attending the 11th WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties #FCTCCOP11 in Geneva from 17-22 November and the 4th Meeting of Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products #FCTCMOP4 from 24-26 November.

www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
Tobacco Control Research Group to attend global tobacco control treaty meeting
TCRG members will support with monitoring at the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control COP meeting
www.bath.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🔔 Register for our free webinar as part of London Global Cancer Week 2025.

We will host an interactive session on how and why the tobacco industry seeks to influence science and to target health professionals in the pursuit of profit on Thursday 27 November 2025.

www.bath.ac.uk/events/how-a...
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
✨ New podcast episode out now! ✨

For the final episode of #DeadlyIndustryPod, we are joined by Dr Gan Quan, Lisa Lennartsdotter Ermann, @danieldorado05.bsky.social and Dr Ulysses Dorotheo to unpack how Big Tobacco tailors its interference strategies across regions.

shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TCRG member Hussein Faeq will speak on a Transparency and Truth webinar about how and why #BigTobacco target its marketing towards young people and what role prevention efforts can play.

📅 Wednesday 10 December

🕜 7.30am (UK time)

🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5a5f43...
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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As the UK's Tobacco and Vapes Bill moves through parliament, the country should why be careful with international comparisons.

@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @tcrgbath.bsky.social
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill – why we need to be careful with international comparisons | British Politics and Policy at LSE
International comparisons when it comes to parliamentary debate about the Tobacco and Vapes Bill needs further scrutiny.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On Sunday #TobaccoSlaveFilm will be screened at the Globale Mittelhessen film festival in Giessen, Germany.

This documentary exposes the plight of tobacco farmers in Malawi and lets them share, in their words, what a life of growing tobacco is really like.

exposetobacco.org/campaigns/to...
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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📣 Join us for our next #TobaccoEndgame CRE #Webinar on 🚭 tobacco product price caps! Dr Rob Branston will present 'A new avenue for tobacco control: price cap regulation'.
📆Wednesday, 12 November
⏰9:00am AEST
🔗 tobacco-endgame.centre.uq.edu.au/event/sessio...
@robbranston.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
International comparisons are often made in UK parliamentary debates on the #TobaccoAndVapesBill – but not all are helpful.

This 🆕 @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social blog unpacks what the evidence really shows about NZ, Australia & Sweden.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

#TobaccoControl #TobaccoEndgame
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill – why we need to be careful with international comparisons | British Politics and Policy at LSE
International comparisons when it comes to parliamentary debate about the Tobacco and Vapes Bill needs further scrutiny.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
💫 Event 💫

As part of London Global Cancer Week 2025, the Tobacco Control Research Group will host an interactive session on how and why the tobacco industry seeks to influence science and to target health professionals.

📅 Thursday 27 November 2025

🕜 1pm GMT

🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/events/how-a...
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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💡New! The Tobacco and Vapes Bill – why we need to be careful with international comparisons

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill – why we need to be careful with international comparisons | British Politics and Policy at LSE
International comparisons when it comes to parliamentary debate about the Tobacco and Vapes Bill needs further scrutiny.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Director Anna Gilmore, alongside other public health professionals, has signed a letter expressing support for the Tobacco & Vapes Bill as peers met yesterday for the first day of Committee stage in the Lords.

@tcrgbath.bsky.social
📢 Over 1,200 public health professionals have written to health spokespeople from all parties, urging swift passage of the Tobacco & Vapes Bill - a historic chance to protect future generations. 🚭✨

✉️ Read the letter: shorturl.at/4Miyl
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
✨ New podcast episode out now! ✨

This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Louis is joined by Dr Alice Fabbri and Dr Tess Legg to break down a critical issue - conflicts of interest in science.

🎧 Listen now and join the conversation: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...

#PublicHealth #PodcastSeries2
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Our documentary Tobacco Slave will be screened as part of the Globale Mittelhessen film festival, a two week festival held in Germany celebrating documentaries that present extraordinary, alternative, or resistant perspectives from all (inhabited) continents.

📅 Sunday 2 November
📍 Giessen, Germany
October 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Interested in learning more about how #BigTobacco targets health professionals to build trust in and promote its harmful products?

Find out more on #TobaccoTactics: http://tobaccotactics.org/article/targeting-health-professionals-the-tactics/
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
✨ New podcast episode out now ✨

This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Leslie Rae Ferat and Dr. Allen Gallagher join us to deep dive into the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control #WHOFCTC and its key events: the Conference of the Parties and Meeting of the Parties.

shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...
October 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Following the publication of an interview with a tobacco industry executive, we have submitted a formal complaint to the BBC.

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The @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social has submitted a formal complaint to the BBC following its recent publication of podcast and news content which featured a tobacco industry executive.
October 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The 2025 Gatefield Health Summit will highlight solutions, innovations, and partnerships to improve #publichealth in Africa.

@brittakm.bsky.social will join discussions on how to protect public health by using #endgame strategies to #reducetobacco use.

Find out more: tix.africa/discover/ghs...
October 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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My new paper looks at the impact of COVID travel restrictions on the sale of duty-free tobacco products in #Taiwan. Not being able to access cheap #dutyfree meant less #tobacco sold, a win for public health. Time for duty-free tobacco to be banned!
doi.org/10.1136/tc-2...
Effect of eliminating the sale of duty-free tobacco products: a natural experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, 2020–2023
Introduction Amidst the global effort to curb cross-border transmission of COVID-19, numerous nations enforced international travel restrictions. One example is Taiwan, which witnessed an 85%–90% redu...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Border closures resulting from Covid-19 lockdowns lead to a huge reduction in sales of duty-free tobacco products.

A new study looks at the impact of the reduction in the sales of duty-free products in Taiwan due to Covid-19 lockdowns.

👉 doi.org/10.1136/tc-2...

@robbranston.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Dr Luc Hagenaars from the @amsterdamumc.bsky.social will deliver a C21PH lecture next week.

Dr Hagenaars will present a new approach to understanding and analysing the commercial determinants of health #CDoH.

📅 Thurs 23 October
🕧 12.30pm (GMT)
📍Online - contact rb2465@bath.ac.uk to attend
October 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
✨ New #podcast episode out now! ✨

This week on #DeadlyIndustryPod, Louis is joined by Dr Iona Fitzpatrick to explore the stories Big Tobacco tells about itself and how it uses language as a tool of influence.

🎧 Listen now and join the conversation: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus...

#PublicHealth
October 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM