Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco
Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco
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The tobacco industry has spent decades honing its deadly strategies to maximise its profits. Despite the well-known dangers of tobacco there are still 8 million tobacco-related deaths each year.Why, decades after it’s deceptions were uncovered, is this industry still so powerful and profitable?This new podcast series, based on ground-breaking research, reveals the tactics of the tobacco industry. Experts from the University of Bath and further afield consider the progress that has been made in countering this deadly industry and what still needs to be done.We also explore how these same strategies provide a playbook for other industries that trade in unhealthy commodities and make billions at the expense of our, and the planet’s, health.Join us as we hold this deadly industry to account. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast focuses on a range of topics related to the tobacco industry, including the illicit tobacco trade, tax strategies, political influence, and regulatory challenges. Episodes feature in-depth discussions like tackling tobacco smuggling with Dr. Allen Gallagher and exploring taxation with Dr. Rob Branston, emphasizing the industry's tactics in evading public health regulations.
The tobacco industry has spent decades honing its deadly strategies to maximise its profits. Despite the well-known dangers of tobacco there are still eight million tobacco-related deaths each year.
Why, decades after it’s deceptions were uncovered, is this industry still so powerful and profitable?
This podcast, based on ground-breaking research by the Tobacco Control Research Group, exposes the tactics of the tobacco industry. Experts from the University of Bath and other organisations consider the progress that has been made in countering this deadly industry and what still needs to be done.
We explore how these same strategies provide a playbook for other industries that trade in unhealthy commodities and make billions at the expense of our, and the planet’s, health.
Join us as we hold this deadly industry to account.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health.
For this special international episode, Louis speaks with global tobacco expert Dr. Gan Quan and in-country experts Lisa Lennartsdotter Ermann, Daniel Dorado and Dr. Ulysses Dorotheo about how Big Tobacco tailors its interference tactics across different regions of the world. They unpick how this deadly industry co-ordinates its efforts around the globe to stop the implementation of tobacco control policy and how it co-opts tobacco control successes to promote its products.
Gan Quan, PhD, is Senior Vice President at Vital Strategies, where he leads the Tobacco Control Division, comprising a global team working with governments and civil society partners around the world to reduce tobacco use, the leading preventive cause of deaths worldwide.
Lisa Lennartsdotter Ermann is a public health expert working in tobacco prevention at The Swedish Cancer Society. Her background covers working with strategic prevention at Public Health Agency of Sweden, with tobacco cessation at the Swedish Quitline and communication about alcohol, drugs and tobacco with young people at The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs.
Daniel Dorado is a human rights activist and lawyer specializing in global health law, constitutional law, corporate accountability and liability of transnational corporations, tobacco control, administrative law, and consumer law. With more than 10 years of experience, he currently serves as Tobacco Campaign Director at Corporate Accountability.
Dr. Ulysses (Yul) Dorotheo currently serves as the Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), an accredited NGO observer to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Sources used in this episode include:
- https://corporateaccountability.org/resources/executive-summary-estereo-picnic
- https://www.cancerfonden.se/om-oss/about-us/swedens-road-to-reduced-tobacco-smoking
Note: In Lisa Lennartsdotter Ermann’s case study about the Swedish Experience, the tobacco use statistic quoted refers to tobacco smoking and does not include tobacco snus use.
Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is a weekly podcast from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. It is hosted by Louis Laurence, produced by Kate White and edited by Sacha Goodwin. The production manager is Jacqueline Oliver.
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The views expressed in this episode by the podcast participants (host and guests) are their own and do not reflect the views of the University of Bath or any other affiliate groups.
For information on the Tobacco Control Research Group’s funding sources please read the following statement: www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/centre-for-21st-century-public-health-statement-on-funding-sources
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