Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin: destroying tobacco control activism from the inside

Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin: destroying tobacco control activism from the inside.

Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin, a specialist firm based in Washington DC, has honed a niche as expert intelligence gatherers, helping tobacco companies such as Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds to damage tobacco control efforts, including the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Research and activism for tobacco control in the Arab world.

www.thelancet.com Published online January 20, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62381-8 1 Smoking rates in the Arab world are some of the highest worldwide. The epidemic is characterised by high and increasing rates of smoking in men and a dramatic reemergence of waterpipe smoking, especially in young people (aged 13–24 years) and women. Although 19 of the 22 Arab countries have rat...

Through tobacco industry eyes: civil society and the FCTC process from Philip Morris and British American Tobacco's perspectives.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the models Philip Morris (PM) and British American Tobacco (BAT) used internally to understand tobacco control non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their relationship to the global tobacco control policy-making process that resulted in the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). METHODS Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents in the Legacy Tobacco Do...

Destroying Civilization, Destroying Nature

Warning: Anti-tobacco activism may be hazardous to epidemiologic science

This commentary accompanies two articles submitted to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations in response to a call for papers about threats to epidemiology or epidemiologists from organized political interests. Contrary to our expectations, we received no submissions that described threats from industry or government; all were about threats from anti-tobacco activists. The two we published, b...