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BAT Philippines and Imperial Tobacco Group have selected Gawad Kalinga (GK) to channel their CSR activities as it is a high profile community organisation of international repute. Both BAT and Imperial are into building houses […]

UNDP has released its official position on non-partnership with the tobacco industry. UNDP’s exclusionary criteria applied to industries that “Manufacture, sale or distribution of tobacco or tobacco products”. The official document is now available online:policy on partnerships [see […]

The 2015 Philippine Trust Index survey results show that tobacco, alcohol, advertising and public relations are the least trusted industries in the country’s business sector. The 4th Philippine Trust Index is released by Engage, a newly launched public affairs and […]

Recently there was a little fire inside a Malindo aircraft during its domestic flight into Kuala Lumpur when the e-cigarette a passenger was carrying exploded on his lap. Yes, it was spontaneous combustion. The passenger […]

Tobacco companies continue to conduct fake CSR activities as a tactic to undermine the ban on tobacco advertising, promotions and sponsorship. To circumvent the ban, in most cases they use their own foundations to fund, […]

Tobacco control advocates have begun the countdown for the tobacco industry in the Philippines to apply pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs starting 5 November. The tobacco industry is notorious for its non-compliance and delay […]

Korea’s KT&G is set to be the world’s No.5 transnational tobacco company. KT&G’s overseas sales of cigarettes this year are expected to overtake its domestic sales, partly because of increased exports and a huge decline […]

  The Speaker of the House from the Indonesian Parliament led a delegation of parliamentarians recently to the US and had several meetings at their Embassy in Washington DC. Present at one of these meetings […]

No, CSI does not stand for ‘crime scene investigation’- in this case, it is ‘corporate social investment’. BAT knows its corporate image is taking a beating by calling its handouts as ‘CSR’ (corporate social responsibility) […]

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is filing a suit against e-cigarette manufacturers in California. CEH, a health watchdog, says tests it had conducted on popular brands of e-cigarettes showed the majority contained cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. CEH found […]