Two new studies from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, published in the BMJ journal, Tobacco Control , expose evidence that big tobacco companies are still facilitating tobacco smuggling, while attempting to control a global system designed to prevent it, and funding studies that routinely overestimate levels of tobacco smuggling.
The findings come off the back of a major announcement last week from Bloomberg Philanthropies which makes Bath’s Tobacco Control Research Group one of the leaders of an all-new $20 million global tobacco industry watchdog aiming to counter the negative influences of the tobacco industry on public health.