Article in The Guardian by Anna Bawden and Mark Sweney
Wed 25 Sep 2024 12.35 EDT
Headline: “Pressure mounts on publisher of Economist over ties to tobacco”
Subhead: “Exclusive: Experts pull out of health conferences run by Economist Impact after revelations of commercial links”
“Pressure is mounting on the publisher of the Economist over its commercial ties with the world’s three biggest tobacco companies, after numerous senior NHS and international health experts pulled out of two more Economist Impact health conferences after the Guardian’s investigation into its links with big tobacco.
. . . “Prof Sir Michael Marmot, director of the Institute of Health Equity at University College London and a global authority on health inequalities, said: “I was not aware Economist Impact were supported by big tobacco companies when I accepted the invitation to speak at this event. Now I am aware, I will no longer be appearing at the conference. I have never and would never work with the tobacco industry, and I am disappointed these details were not disclosed in advance”