Fighting regulation

Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health.

In our third podcast episode, Andrew Rowell and Tom Gatehouse speak about why tobacco companies engage in lobbying and political interference. They talk through the impact this has on attempts to protect public health, and the ways in which the industry tailors its interference depending on international context, looking at a TCRG whistle-blower investigation in Southern Africa as an example.

Tom Gatehouse is a Research Assistant at Tobacco Tactics, part of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. In this role he is responsible for researching, writing and reviewing pages for the Tobacco Tactics knowledge exchange platform, as well as working on academic research projects, contributing to media outputs and helping to maintain the Tobacco Tactics website.

Andy Rowell is a journalist and Investigations Lead at the Tobacco Control Research Group. He has written on the tobacco industry since the nineties, and was one of the first editors of TCRG’s Tobacco Tactics.*

Sources used in this episode include:

• https://www.bath.ac.uk/case-studies/the-uk-tobacco-industry-interference-index-2023/
• https://globaltobaccoindex.org/
• https://tobaccotactics.org/article/the-bat-files/

In reference to Tom's comment at 31.50, the UK government noted that they would not consider tobacco industry viewpoints in 2023's consultation on 'creating a smokefree generation'. More information can be found here.

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.

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*From 1 March Andy will be a visiting fellow at the Tobacco Control Research Group.

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