This story exposes Philip Morris International’s (PMI) secret collaboration with the British Health
Minister Earl Howe to defeat tobacco control regulations.
The story also reveals how PMI creates and underwrites retailers’ “grassroots” campaigns against
these regulations — campaigns cynically designed “for the commercial arguments to outweigh all
other criteria.” And it starts a new series of articles about PMI’s strategy of fomenting and financing
opposition to tobacco control efforts around the world.
This story exposes Philip Morris International’s (PMI) secret collaboration with the British HealthMinister Earl Howe to defeat tobacco control regulations.The story also reveals how PMI creates and underwrites retailers’ “grassroots” campaigns againstthese regulations — campaigns cynically designed “for the commercial arguments to outweigh allother criteria.” And it starts a new series of articles about PMI’s strategy of fomenting and financingopposition to tobacco control efforts around the world.
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