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<div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; line-height: 1; padding: 0px;">British American Tobacco</h3><div class="hos-nominee-detail visibility-enabled" data-visibility-name="info-about" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.75s ease 0s;">Big Tobacco wrote the playbook on modern corporate abuse. Literally. From spreading junk science to dividing and undermining opponents, to getting politicians to do their bidding, the tobacco industry was at the leading edge of it all.And they’re still up to these dirty tricks. This year, British American Tobacco (BAT) has exploited the global COVID-19 pandemic to market its harmful and addictive new products by co-opting hashtags meant to spread public health information and using influencers to push its brand. BAT also helped fund a junk science study that claims tobacco consumption (which leads among other things to respiratory disease) might reduce the danger of the novel coronavirus (a respiratory disease). And cynically using a global pandemic as a marketing ploy, BAT announced it had begun researching a COVID-19 vaccine.We nominate British American Tobacco for exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to peddle its harmful and addictive products on social media and make unproven, dangerous health claims that further undermine public health policies.</div></div><div>
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<div>Kenneth Harry Clarke <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_of_Honour" title="Companion of Honour" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CH</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel" title="Queen's Counsel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">QC</a> (born 2 July 1940), often known as Ken Clarke, is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_people" title="British people" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">British</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Conservative</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician" title="Politician" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">politician</a> who has represented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushcliffe(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rushcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rushcliffe</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nottinghamshire</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament(UK)" title="Member of Parliament (UK)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Member of Parliament</a> since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,1970" title="United Kingdom general election, 1970" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1970</a>.Clarke, one of the UK's best-known politicians, has been described by the press as a "Big Beast". He served in various<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Cabinet" title="UK Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">British Cabinets</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Home Secretary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Justice" title="Secretary of State for Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Education" title="Secretary of State for Education" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Education Secretary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health" title="Secretary of State for Health" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Health Secretary</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_without_Portfolio" title="Minister without Portfolio" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Minister without Portfolio</a>. He has been the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_Reform_Group" title="Tory Reform Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">President of the Tory Reform Group</a> since 1997.Clarke contested the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_the_Conservative_Party(UK)" title="Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Conservative Party leadership</a> three times – in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party(UK)leadership_election,1997" title="Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 1997" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1997</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party(UK)leadership_election,2001" title="Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2001" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2001</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party(UK)leadership_election,2005" title="Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2005" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2005</a> – being defeated each time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Opinion polls</a> indicated he was more popular with the general public than with his Party, whose generally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro-sceptic" title="Euro-sceptic" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Euro-sceptic</a>stance did not chime with his pro-European views. Notably, he is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Europe_Group" title="Conservative Europe Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">President of the Conservative Europe Group</a>, Co-President of the pro-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU" title="EU" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">EU</a> body <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Influence" title="British Influence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">British Influence</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Movement_UK" title="European Movement UK" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Vice-President of the European Movement UK</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>Clarke's time as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_Minister" title="Cabinet Minister" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cabinet Minister</a> is the fifth-longest in the modern era, having spent over 20 years serving under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Prime Ministers</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Margaret Thatcher</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Major</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Cameron</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Member_of_Parliament" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2Member of Parliament</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Ministerial_positions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1Ministerial positions</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2Chancellor of the Exchequer</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Backbencher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.3Backbencher</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Promotion_to_the_Shadow_Cabinet" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.4Promotion to the Shadow Cabinet</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Lord_Chancellor_and_Justice_Secretary" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.5Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Minister_without_Portfolio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.6Minister without Portfolio</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Expenses_scandal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3Expenses scandal</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Corporate_and_other_work" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4Corporate and other work</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Media_work" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5Media work</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">British American Tobacco Company (BAT or BATCO) is the second largest listed tobacco company in the world, with a market capitalization of over £30 billion (U.S. $44 billion). It is based in London in the United Kingdom. In1999 they acquired <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rothmans_International" title="Rothmans International" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rothmans International</a>.It began operating in 1902 as a joint venture of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Imperial_Tobacco" title="Imperial Tobacco" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Imperial Tobacco</a> Company and James Duke's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tobacco_Company" title="American Tobacco Company" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Tobacco Company</a> (a tobacco trade cartel), and grew to be the major cigarette company in many countries -- but not in the USA or in the UK, where each of the partner organizations had agreed not to compete with the other.During the trust-busting era of President Theodore Roosevelt, the American Tobacco Company was forced to divest its interest, and in the years that followed. Imperial Tobacco also reduced its shareholdings. Eventually BAT became a relatively independent organization, that out-grew its parent.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#BAT_Industries" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 BAT Industries</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#Recent_manipulative_activities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1 Recent manipulative activities</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#BAT.27s_secret_plant_in_North_Korea" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2 BAT's secret plant in North Korea</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#BAT_Australia_butting_in_to_butt_out_campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.3 BAT Australia butting in to butt out campaign</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#Tobacco_industry_documents" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Tobacco industry documents</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#Case_Studies" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Case Studies</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#Subsidiaries" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Subsidiaries</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#Key_Personnel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Key Personnel</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#Other_SourceWatch_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 Other SourceWatch resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9 External links</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">BAT Industries</h3>The international remnants of the original company were reorganized into a holding company called BAT Industries in 1976, and it acquired what was left of the American Tobacco Co. after the anti-trust split-up. The main assets of the US company were the brands Lucky Strike and Pall Mall. BAT later acquired <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brown%26_Williamson" title="Brown & Williamson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brown & Williamson</a> (B&W) which, at that time, was the largest cigarette company in the USA. BAT's US subsidiary retained a degree of independence from the UK, although clearly it must report to the London office -- and occasionally they exerted their own pressure.BAT is based in London and has subsidiaries in the UK, Europe, Asia and the old British colonies. In 1999 it acquired the South African-based company of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rothmans_Tobacco" title="Rothmans Tobacco" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rothmans International</a> after a long battle with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philip Morris</a>for control. It has also since acquired Italy's state tobacco company, Ente Tabacchi Italian (ETI). The company has also diversified into many other industries -- owning, for instance, a major life insurance company, food and beverage companies, etc. The acronym BATCO is often used when referring to this larger conglomerate.With tobacco, the holding company in the USA is known as BATUS (headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky) while <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brown%26_Williamson" title="Brown & Williamson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Brown & Williamson</a> maintained its own name. In many documents in the tobacco archives it is known simply as B&W.More recently, following the revelations of tobacco industry subterfuges and illegal activities, B&W was split off from BAT and sold to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/R.J.Reynolds" title="R.J. Reynolds" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">R.J. Reynolds</a> Tobacco Company.<h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Recent manipulative activities</h4>Under the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Master_Settlement_Agreement" title="Master Settlement Agreement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Master Settlement Agreement</a> signed in the USA in 1998, all U.S. tobacco companies (including BAT and its then-subsidiary B&W), agreed not to become involved in science manipulation and underhanded public and lobbying activities. It appears the company has failed to abide by these rules.In 2004, it was revealed that that BAT has spent millions of pounds funding university research to back the controversial theory of "genetic predisposition," which argues that some people are more susceptible to lung cancer than others because they have "bad genes." The environmental group Gene Watch has obtained internal memos from BAT showing that research into "bad genes" was by far BAT's largest area of university funding in the early 1990s. A 1996 memo from the public relations company <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Burson-Marsteller" title="Burson-Marsteller" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Burson-Marsteller</a> to BAT's rival, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philip Morris</a>, suggested a test kit would allow "the non-susceptible population to smoke with a clear conscience."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>In 2004, even after being ordered at least three times by the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia to release a 1990 memorandum, BAT refused, claiming attorney-client privilege. The so-called "Foyle memorandum" was written by British lawyer <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Foyle" title="Andrew Foyle" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Andrew Foyle</a> and concerns the company's "document retention policy." U.S. government lawyers contend that the memo contains evidence that BAT and other tobacco companies "took steps to destroy, suppress or otherwise shield from discovery its internal research documents concerning smoking and health."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>The U.S. government wanted to use the document in its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_U.S.Government%27s_racketeering_case_against_Big_Tobacco" title="The U.S. Government's racketeering case against Big Tobacco" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">federal lawsuit</a> against the tobacco industry, as "key evidence of the government's central claim ... that the tobacco companies defrauded the public by concealing the health risks of smoking for more than five decades." The lawsuit was scheduled to go to court September 21, 2004. However, in the words of U.S. District Judge <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gladys_Kessler" title="Gladys Kessler" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gladys Kessler</a>, BAT's "dilatoriness and delay" and its "inexcusable effort to subvert the discovery process" by stonewalling and legal challenges, delayed any potential release of the Foyle memo until after the U.S. lawsuit. After 6 years of litigation, 9 months of trial, hundreds of depositions and thousands of exhibits, on August 17, 2006, Judge Gladys Kessler ruled that the Government had proven its case and found that the tobacco company defendants have violated the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">BAT's secret plant in North Korea</h4>"British American Tobacco, the world's second largest cigarette company, has secretly been operating a factory in North Korea for the past four years," reports the Guardian, though "BAT has never mentioned the factory in its annual accounts."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>When asked about North Korea's human rights record -- Amnesty International has reported on the torture and execution of detainees, and a "basic lack of political freedom" there -- a BAT spokesperson said, "It is not for us to interfere with the way governments run countries." Moreover, she said, BAT could "lead by example" by promoting international business standards and corporate social responsibility.The revelation further complicated British politician <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kenneth_Clarke" title="Kenneth Clarke" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kenneth Clarke</a>'s candidacy to head the Conservative Party. Clarke has worked for BAT since 1998, chairing their corporate social responsibility committee. BAT confirmed that Clarke knew about its North Korean factory, since he reviews "human rights reports on all countries where we operate."<h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">BAT Australia butting in to butt out campaign</h4>According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, an organization called the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Butt_Littering_Trust" title="Butt Littering Trust" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Butt Littering Trust</a>, (funded mainly by BAT), has been running a series of educational campaigns to clean up cigarette butts in partnership with some local councils. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/look-whos-butting-in-as-though-they-actually-care/2006/05/15/1147545265597.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a>"The trust maintains it is independent of BAT Australia, its main sponsor, even though <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Valerie_Ritchie" title="Valerie Ritchie" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Valerie Ritchie</a>, head of public relations at BAT Australia, sits on its board of trustees."North Sydney Council started an anti-littering campaign partly funded by BAT Australia via the trust yesterday. People wearing costumes representing marine animals threatened by cigarette butt pollution approached smokers in the street. They were asked to fill in questionnaires and given portable ashtrays," according to the Herald.The chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health Australia, Anne Jones, said North Sydney and other councils had been advised by letter of the Butt Littering Trust's connections to BAT Australia."Tobacco companies want to be seen to be involved in stopping the littering. .. They can say 'Look, we are doing something about it' when they're actually the source of the problem."<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Tobacco industry documents</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/nnj29e00" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Smoking Issues Claims & Responses</a> - Estimated date May, 1994. A Q & A manual representing BAT's denial of the link between smoking and disease. Sample excerpt:</li></ul><blockquote>CLAIM 1: Smoking has been proven to cause disease.
RESPONSE: There is still a controversy about smoking and health. Although there is a 'statistical association' between smoking and certain diseases, which means that smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers, smoking has not be proven to actually cause the diseases. The cause could equally be one of the many other things that smokers do that makes them different from non-smokers. Smokers have been reported to have quite different lifestyles from non-smokers. For example, smokers have poorer, high-fat diets than non-smokers. It has also been suggested that this may explain the elevated risk of heart disease in smokers.
CLAIM 2: It is not credible simply to state that smoking does not cause these diseases.
RESPONSE: We are not saying that smoking does or does not cause these diseases; we are saying we do not know. (See also previous response.)</blockquote><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/sbs08a99" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">A Review of the Factors Influencing Nicotine/Tar Ratio of Cigarettes, With Particular Emphasis on High Nicotine/Tar Ratio Design Factors an Consumer Reaction to Such Products</a> January 6, 1987 BAT document about cigarette design, discussing novel nicotine delivery devices. Describes BAT's view on nicotine, saying that it is "a unique drug" that is "needed by a proportion of the population." Sample excerpt:</li></ul><blockquote>"All this implies that nicotine is our ultimate product. People must regard nicotine as an ideal "coping" substance. Comparing a few common drugs:alcohol: the disadvantages of alcohol are that it can be socially disruptive and can kill others as well as ourselves.caffeine: this controls only certain aspects of mood; it can only lift.nicotine: can either boost people, or calm them down. It has a short half life in the body (2 hours). It is a unique drug and provides the user with immediate help, which no other drug can. It is not associated with any adverse ill effects. Although very high doses can kill, in smoke it provides its own safety valve. It is a "coping" aid needed by a proportion of the population. We must reduce the amount of tar associated with nicotine; we need to do research on the safety of nicotine and convince the public of its safety and desirability ...</blockquote><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/hhc34a99" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Defense on Cigarette Smoking -- A Review Report No RD 1532</a> Report by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=A.Kay_Comer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. Kay Comer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">A. Kay Comer</a>, British-American Tobacco. Reveals BAT's knowledge of the close relationship between nicotine-taking and other drug-taking behaviors (both legal and illegal). An important conclusion reached by BAT is that "... there is a higher proportion of smokers amongst drug addicts and alcoholics than in the general population ..." The paper also helps explain why it is so much easier for large numbers of people to become addicted to nicotine than almost any other drug: Often other drugs (barbiturates, morphine, etc.) are taken as a response to difficulties, like loneliness or other negative stressors. By contrast, nicotine is freely self-administered in response to more widely varied stimuli, e.g., concerts, parties, while driving or simply talking over coffee. There are also far more opportunities to use nicotine than any other drug of abuse. Also, most other drugs require a method of administration that is seen as less acceptable in social settings (e.g. pill taking, intravenous injection) while smoking has long been considered acceptable, and even appropriate at concerts, parties, dinners etc. Also, while other drugs of abuse impair the user to some extent, nicotine users can still function socially after (or even while they are) using.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/dmb02b00" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Untitled BAT planning document</a>, estimated date June, 1959. States that smokers need an "adequate dose of nicotine" to maintain the smoking habit, and says BAT needs to devise "means of making smaller amounts of nicotine work harder."</li></ul>In 2003, it was reported that in past years BAT had been so concerned that it would lose market share to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin that it had examined a series of strategies aimed at giving its products a more "rebellious" image in a bid to make them more attractive to youngsters. A 1985 internal presentation made to BAT employees shows that during the 1980s the company became concerned that the burgeoning illegal drugs market could eat into its profits and considered ways to slow the progression of the damage. The document, called Structured Creativity Group Presentation, was written by senior BAT adviser <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Creighton" title="David Creighton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Creighton</a>, and predicted that cigarettes would face "competition with cannabis, glue-sniffing and possibly hard drugs - heroin and cocaine."<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Case Studies</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco%27s%27Document_Retention_Policy%27" title="British American Tobacco's 'Document Retention Policy'" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">British American Tobacco's 'Document Retention Policy'</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Subsidiaries</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BAT_Iseyin_Agronomy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BAT Iseyin Agronomy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BAT Iseyin Agronomy</a> Nigeria</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AMATIL" title="AMATIL" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">AMATIL</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cia_Souza_Cruz_Industria_e_Commercio(Souza_Cruz)" title="Cia Souza Cruz Industria e Commercio (Souza Cruz)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cia Souza Cruz Industria e Commercio (Souza Cruz)</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Imperial_Tobacco_Canada" title="Imperial Tobacco Canada" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Imperial Tobacco Canada</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Key Personnel</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Burrows" title="Richard Burrows" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Burrows</a> - chair</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ernest_Pepples" title="Ernest Pepples" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ernest Pepples</a> -- senior counsel of B&W, and main organizer and strategist for covert and subterfuge activities. See his 1978 report on a Californian campaign. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pcd04f00/pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nicholas_Cannar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicholas Cannar (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nicholas Cannar</a> -- the lawyer in charge of the so-called "Document Retention Program" of systematic document destruction.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Addison_Yeaman" title="Addison Yeaman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Addison Yeaman</a> -- the B&W executive who admitted in an early internal memo that cigarettes were addictive.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sharon_Boyse" title="Sharon Boyse" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sharon Boyse</a> -- who ran the main anti-science program in the UK for many years, and worked with the science-for-sale operators and professional deniers.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_J.Proctor" title="Christopher J. Proctor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christopher J. Proctor</a> -- who headed the scientific witness program, and joined the tobacco law-firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Covington%26_Burling" title="Covington & Burling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Covington & Burling</a> in the early 1990s, is currently (as of March 2009) BAT's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3mnfen.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/DO52AD87?opendocument&SKN=4" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Head of Science and Regulation</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=A.D.Clive_Turner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. D. Clive Turner (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clive Turner</a> -- who ran the scientific PR operations in the UK, then joined the Asian Tobacco Council in Hong Kong.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fran_Morrison" title="Fran Morrison" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fran Morrison</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duncan_Oppenheim" title="Duncan Oppenheim" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Duncan Oppenheim</a> - former chair</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jan_du_Plessis" title="Jan du Plessis" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jan du Plessis</a> - Chair</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karen_M.A.de_Segundo" title="Karen M.A. de Segundo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Karen M.A. de Segundo</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harald_Einsmann" title="Harald Einsmann" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harald Einsmann</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">References</h2><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Jamie Doward, Social Affairs Editor [<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1227918,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1227918,00.html</a> Tobacco giant funds 'bad gene' hunt: Secret memos show BAT has spent millions on studies playing down cigarette link to cancer] News/Society, UK Guardian. May 30, 2004</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Wall Street Journal <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109503368828415904,00.html?mod=us_business_whats_news" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Secret Memo Sought by U.S. In Tobacco Suit</a> September 13, 2004</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Wall Street Journal <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109503368828415904,00.html?mod=us_business_whats_news" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Secret Memo Sought by U.S. In Tobacco Suit</a> September 13, 2004</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> William McQuillen and Susan Decker <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNoshkfe1hQc&refer=home" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Cigarette Makers Lose in U.S. Racketeering Lawsuit (Update6)</a>, Bloomberg news, August 17, 2006</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Ian Cobain and David Leigh <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1593914,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Tobacco firm has secret North Korea plant</a> UK Guardian, UK News, October 17, 2005</li></ol><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Other SourceWatch resources</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EQ_Management" title="EQ Management" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">EQ Management</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EQ_and_corporate_social_responsibility" title="EQ and corporate social responsibility" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">EQ and corporate social responsibility</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Graham_Cripps" title="Andrew Graham Cripps" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Andrew Graham Cripps</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edouard_Ettedgui" title="Edouard Ettedgui" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Edouard Ettedgui</a> - former group finance controller</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">External resources</h2><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://batda.library.ucsf.edu/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">British American Tobacco Documents Archive</a> Searchable database of approximately 7 million pages of BAT documents<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">External links</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Vanessa O'Connell, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109503368828415904,00.html?mod=us_business_whats_news" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Secret Memo Sought by U.S. In Tobacco Suit</a>," Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2004</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Bob Burton and Andy Rowell, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q4/bat.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">British American Tobacco's Socially Responsible Smoke Screen</a>", PR Watch, Vol 9 No 4, 4th Quarter 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jamie Doward, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1227918,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Tobacco giant funds 'bad gene' hunt</a>", The Observer, May 30, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rob Evans, David Leigh and Kevin Maguire, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1336810,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Tobacco firm gained secret access to Blair</a>", Guardian (UK), October 27, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Leon Gettler, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/04/04/1112489389204.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Taking care of business</a>", Sydney Morning Herald, April 4, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Simon Chapman, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/04/04/1112489420659.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Flaws in the glass as business world looks in the mirror</a>", Letters to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald, April 4, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Neil Collins, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/07/28/ccom28.xml" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">BAT does a splendid job on corporate responsibility (cough, cough)</a>", "City comment", Daily Telegraph, July 28, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ian Cobain and David Leigh, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1593914,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Tobacco firm has secret North Korea plant: Firm with Tories' Ken Clarke on payroll runs factory in country with grim human rights record</a>," The Guardian (UK), October 17, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Susannah Moran, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://afr.com/premium/articles/2006/05/30/1148956345472.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Tobacco defence shredded</a>", Australian Financial Review, May 31, 2006. (Sub req'd)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Elisabeth Sexton, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/judge-tells-tobacco-giant-to-hand-over-documents/2006/05/30/1148956346933.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Judge tells tobacco giant to hand over documents</a>", Sydney Morning Herald, May 31, 2006.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Elisabeth Sexton, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2006/09/01/1156817102745.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Smoking out lawyers' dirty dealings</a>", Sydney Morning Herald, September 2, 2006.</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Tobaccowiki" title="Category:Tobaccowiki" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobaccowiki</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Tobacco_industry" title="Category:Tobacco industry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobacco industry</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Tobacco_documents_organizations" title="Category:Tobacco documents organizations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobacco documents organizations</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div></div><div>http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco_and_tobacco_smuggling</div><div>
</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://old.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/smugglingbat.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">British American Tobacco and tobacco smuggling</a>, by Action on Smoking and Health (no date)Summary of published paper:
This article largely consists of links to around 200 internal documents from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/British_American_Tobacco" title="British American Tobacco" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">British American Tobacco</a> (BAT) that illustrate the extent of the BAT's involvement in cigarette smuggling in Asia, Africa and Latin America. As a result of these disclosures, BAT has faced a media storm, it's senior management has been questioned by a House of Commons Committee and the company is under investigation by the DTI over its involvement in smuggling. The documents show BAT orchestrating smuggling through third parties, and treating smuggling as if it is just another distribution channel -- with pricing strategy, product launches and marketing plans. The documents show that BAT does not do the smuggling itself, but works through middlemen that do the actual smuggling. Smuggling allegations have lead to racketeering legal action against BAT and other multi-national tobacco companies.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Related Sourcewatch resources</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tobacco_smuggling" title="Tobacco smuggling" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobacco smuggling</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patanegra_cigarettes" title="Patanegra cigarettes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Patanegra cigarettes</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_trade" title="General trade" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">General trade</a></li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Tobaccowiki" title="Category:Tobaccowiki" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobaccowiki</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Tobacco_industry" title="Category:Tobacco industry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobacco industry</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Tobacco_industry_strategy" title="Category:Tobacco industry strategy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobacco industry strategy</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Marketing" title="Category:Marketing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Marketing</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Tobacco_documents_published_papers" title="Category:Tobacco documents published papers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tobacco documents published papers</a></li></ul></div></div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div>http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/B.A.T.Industries_PLC</div><div>
</div><div>B.A.T. Industries PLC (British American Tobacco) of London, England was a "Tobacco giant." They were the ultimate parent company of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and, as of 4/94, The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tobacco" title="American Tobacco" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Tobacco</a> Company (pending anti-trust approval).Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation was a subsidiary of BATUS Tobacco Services Inc.; BATUS Tobacco Services Inc. was a wholly-owned subsidiary of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/BATUS_Holdings_Inc." title="BATUS Holdings Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BATUS Holdings Inc.</a>, which operated as a holding company circa 1994.(Castano: BWT List of Affiliations 5/27/94).BATUS Holdings Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of South Western Nominees Limited, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of B.A.T. Industries, P.L.C. (1994) (Castano: BWT List of Affiliations 5/27/94). B.A.T. Industries PLC bought The American Tobacco Company from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Brands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Brands (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Brands</a> Inc. for $1 billion, announced April 26, 1994.(Clarion-Ledger/AP 4/27/94) The agreement between American Brands Inc. and B.A.T. Industries PLC (for the sale of The American Tobacco Company) had a "material adverse change clause," that stated that if the FDA regulated cigarettes and if there were any material change of the distribution and sale of cigarettes, British American Tobacco has latitude to reexamine the deal.(Dow Jones, 6/27/94).British American Tobacco Industries had a 31% stake in Indian cigarette giant ITC Ltd. as of May 1994.(Reuters 5/13/94). British American Tobacco owned the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lucky_Strike&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucky Strike (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lucky Strike</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pall_Mall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pall Mall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pall Mall</a> brands outside the United States before the purchase of ATC (pre-1994).(Agence France 7/13/94).</div><div></div><div>A scathing news report has exposed one of the world’s largest tobacco corporations for bribing politicians in Africa. The corporation is British American Tobacco. In case you haven’t heard of it, this multinational behemoth owns more than a third of Reynolds American, the second-largest tobacco corporation in the U.S. and the parent company of R.J. Reynolds. The report from the BBC details some of the most extreme examples in recent memory of a global corporation sabotaging lifesaving public health laws in order to push its deadly products. But thanks to a whistleblower who talked to the BBC and provided detailed documentation, we have a prime opportunity to hold Big Tobacco accountable. <a href="http://qz.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jEkVLZQsNMBPw4bDDO9f4EfaGwoHvN%2B7" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tell U.S. and international authorities to crack down on British American Tobacco.</a> The BBC report — based on documents, recordings and whistleblower testimony — describes British American Tobacco’s illegal activities in countries including Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Multinational corporations should not be able to act with such impunity and disregard for people’s lives. The global tobacco treaty of 2003 gives governments the backing of international law to hold tobacco corporations accountable for just this kind of illicit activity. The U.S. also has anti-corruption laws that protect against foreign bribery by corporations traded on the New York Stock Exchange. </div><div>==</div></div></div></div></div></div>