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** 27 May 2022
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** UK
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** Work begins on site of old Imperial Tobacco factory after 'years of uncertainty' (#1)
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** International
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** Criticism as Brian King Named Director of FDA Centre for Tobacco Products (#2)
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** PMI says ‘sustainability and business interrelated’ as it sets new KPIs (#3)
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** Link of the week
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** Call for participants: Do you smoke cigarettes and are you interested in quitting with the use of smartphone-based support? (#4)
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** UK
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** Construction on the site of the old Imperial Tobacco factory has started after a £50m deal was secured with a property developer and real estate firm. It will soon be home to high quality industrial and logistics space and is expected to be completed by 2023, creating up to 1,000 jobs.
Imperial Tobacco began operating on the site in the early 1970s but after moving to Europe in 2016, the 'Horizon' factory was began to be demolished in 2019.
East Midlands Chamber chief executive Scott Knowles noted the site’s “great potential to become another strategic hub of economic activity […] the jobs they will bring to Nottingham will be important for communities in the local area."
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Source: Nottingham Post, 27 May 2022
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** International
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The US Food and Drug Administration has newly appointed Dr Brian A. King as Director of the FDA’s Centre for Tobacco Products (CTP). Dr King holds over a decade’s experience at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most recently as the deputy director for research translation at the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH).
However, Greg Conley, the president of the American Vaping Association (AVA), told Filter his “long history of obfuscation around the issue of tobacco harm reduction is hard to ignore.” Criticism has been directed at past comments made by Dr King on e-cigarettes, suggesting he overemphasised the harms of e-cigarettes among youth at the expense of their potential for supporting adult smokers to quit.
The news comes at a time when CTP still has to sort through many of the premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) required for new tobacco containing or e-cigarette products to be permitted for sale in the US.
Editorial note: The Influence Foundation, which owns and operates Filter magazine, has received funding directly from PMI ([link removed]) in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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Source: Filter Mag, 20 May 2022
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Through its third annual Integrated Report, PMI has introduced 19 new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These KPIs make up the company’s new ‘Sustainability Index’, which links 30% of the company’s long-term compensation for senior executives at the tobacco company to ‘Environmental Social and Corporate Governance’ (ESG) performance.
Jacek Olczak, Chief Executive Officer of Philip Morris International Inc says of the company “sustainability and business performance are fully interrelated and mutually reinforcing” with PMI “committed to serving as an agent of change and advocate of positive values.”
Editorial note: A recent World Health Organisation roundtable discussion explores the tobacco industry's greenwashing tactics through a series of country case studies from France, Indonesia, Nigeria, Spain and Tanzania.
See also:
• The Guardian - Big Tobacco is killing the planet with plastics. No smokescreen should be allowed to hide that ([link removed])
• Tobacco Tactics – Greenwashing ([link removed])
Source: TR Business, 26 May 2022
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** Link of the week
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University College London (UCL) is looking to develop a smartphone-based stop smoking tool which provides personalised support to smokers in real-time, when they most need it. To inform such support, understanding when and why people are at risk of relapsing when trying to quit smoking will be valuable.
UCL are therefore recruiting people who smoke and live in London to a paid 10-day study. Please share this information with relevant networks and follow the link for full details here ([link removed]) .
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