Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG)

PMI is trying to pull the wool over your eyes ❗️ We have uncovered evidence that Philip Morris International and its Japanese affiliate has secretly funded science. These findings cast doubts on PMI’s claims that they conduct #transparentscience. 👇 Read paper here: https://lnkd.in/e7nXnXyx Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/efn3wiQg #ScienceforProfit University of Bath Sophie Braznell, PhD Louis Laurence Iona Fitzpatrick, PhD Anna Gilmore

🌍 World Pneumonia Day: Smoking & Pneumonia Risk 🌍 This World Pneumonia Day, let’s spotlight how smoking increases pneumonia risk. Smoking weakens the lungs’ defences, leaving smokers 3️⃣ ❌ times more likely to get severe pneumonia. The work of our own Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) reveals how quitting smoking can protect your lungs and improve public health. 💪 Take Action: 🚭 Quit Smoking: It’s the best step to reduce pneumonia risk. 🏛 Support Tobacco Control: Policies like smoke-free spaces can lower smoking rates and protect lung health. 👃 Protect your lungs today—make pneumonia one less worry. 💙 #WorldPneumoniaDay #QuitSmoking #UniversityofBath #TobaccoControl

It has been a great first day here at #UnionConf. We have had lots of conversations with people interested in tobacco control and have tested the tobacco control knowledge of many delegates. #LungHealth #TobaccoControl

TCRG are in Bali and looking forward to the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) conference starting tomorrow! If you are at #UnionConf, come along to see us and discuss why exposing the tactics of #BigTobacco helps protect #lunghealth globally. 🌎

It was great to see all who attended last night's screening of #TobaccoSlaveFilm as part of the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science. And big thanks to our amazing panellists Chrissie Giles, Dr. Pankhuri Agarwal, PhD, Phil Chamberlain, Prof. Roy Maconachie and Simon Wharf.👏👏👏

🆕 Uruguay’s cannabis regulation has been portrayed as an innovation in health governance and part of a coherent strategy to regulate cannabis, tobacco and alcohol. Dr Rachel Barry’s latest paper uses a novel #policycoherence approach to explore efforts to promote consistent regulation across #unhealthycommodities. 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/ebaszsb3

Do you know your illicit whites from your silver frauds? Or your green tobacco sickness from your blue tobacco malady? Then come to see us at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) World Conference on Lung Health in Bali next week to take part in our #TobaccoControl quiz! #UnionConf #LungHealth

It's your last chance to get tickets for tomorrow’s screening of #TobaccoSlaveFilm in Bath. Join Chrissie Giles from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, TCRG Deputy Director Phil Chamberlain and the University of Bath's Dr. Pankhuri Agarwal, PhD, Prof. Roy Maconachie and Simon Wharf for an insightful conversation on the practices of global tobacco companies following the screening. Get your tickets: https://lnkd.in/eFrDCdwt ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council STOP

Register for tomorrow's Institute for Global Tobacco Control Innovations in Tobacco Control Lecture with Professor Anna Gilmore. Prof. Gilmore will be sharing insights from her work on #tobaccocontrol and #CDoH. More info: https://lnkd.in/emh9Wd4V

At last week’s African Investigative Journalism Conference #AIJC2024, a key topic of discussion was the environment of intimidation under which many investigative journalists operate. Phil Chamberlain has written for our blog on his experience attending the conference and his thoughts on the intimidation also experienced by tobacco control researchers and advocates. Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/eypNWqzJ