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.
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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 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.
In the penultimate episode of season two, Dr Tess Legg and Dr Alice Fabbri chat with Louis about conflicts of interest in science. They break down how commercial funding of researchers can bias scientific research, why commercial actors seek to influence science and how to protect scientific processes and outputs from manipulation by implementing policies, delivering training and changing how science is funded.
Dr Alice Fabbri is a public health physician whose work focuses on conflicts of interest and commercial influences on health. Alice's work has contributed to the definition and conceptualisation of the Commercial Determinants of Health and to developing educational interventions on conflicts of interest and corporate influence on science.
Dr Tess Legg is a research associate in the Tobacco Control Research Group who specialises on understanding how and why corporate actors seek to influence science. Tess’s work explores ways to ensure science works for the public good and contributes to the emerging fields of the commercial determinants of health (CDoH) and agnotology (the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt).
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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.
Around 29.00 Tess makes reference to the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW). As of May 2024 this organisation has been renamed Global Action to End Smoking (GAES).
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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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