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William E. Wecker Associates

Amalan Premkumar — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:21:14 +0000

William E. Wecker Associates is an American statistical consulting firm. The firm has a long history of supporting tobacco companies in American litigation cases.
In the firm’s own words, the company has:
“a track record of creative and effective applications of statistical and mathematical analysis to questions arising in regulation and litigation, in business and government”.¹

Employees at William E. Wecker Associates

Key people at the firm have been idenitfied as:²

William (‘Bill’) Wecker – Founder and President
Laurentius Marias – Vice President
Stephen R Hoff – Vice President
Karen Taves – Principal Consultant

Relationship with the Tobacco Industry: Multiple Tobacco Clients

Wecker Associates has been a consultant to tobacco companies since 1990, when RJ Reynolds commissioned the firm to scrutinise the methodology underlying the Cancer Prevention Study II (CP SII), a prospective mortality study started in 1982 by the American Cancer Society.³
Wecker’s website, accessed in January 2018, listed Altria, RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris International as clients, and named Japan Tobacco International and Lorillard as former clients (see images 1 & 2).⁴

Image 1: Screenshot of webpage on William E. Wecker Associates’ website detailing the firm’s clients (accessed January 2018)

Image 2: Screenshot of webpage on William E. Wecker Associates’ website detailing the firm’s experience (accessed January 2018)

Used Freedom of Information Request to Access Lung Cancer Patient Records

In January 2018, The Daily Telegraph reported that in July 2016 Wecker Associates had requested, and successfully obtained, data from Public Health England (PHE) under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.⁵ PHE, the executive arm of the UK Department of Health, was asked for lung cancer patient records “to examine the role regulation should play and the relationship between tobacco use and cancer”.
It remains unclear which tobacco client was behind Wecker’s FOI request, and to what end. According to PHE, it had released the information “under our legal duty to comply with the Freedom of Information Act”.
However, it is now well documented that tobacco companies misuse FOI legislation to impede tobacco control progress.⁶ For some examples, go to:

Expert Court Testimonials on Behalf of Tobacco Industry

Wecker Associates has provided expert court testimonials on behalf of the tobacco industry in a long list of American legal actions, where smokers and/or state governments sought to recoup healthcare costs on tobacco companies.⁷ Its depositions have challenged the methods used to estimate health harms, medical cost, or other arguments used against tobacco companies.
For example, a 2010 class action against Philip Morris USA claimed that the tobacco company had misled people about the amount of tar and nicotine delivered to smokers of Marlboro ‘Light’ cigarettes.⁸ Bill Wecker testified that low-tar cigarettes were indeed associated with a statistically significant reduction of lung cancer risk, contrary to the scientific consensus on this issue.⁹
Below is a selection of other lawsuits in which the firm acted as the tobacco industry’s expert witness:

2012: Willard R. Brown et al. v American Tobacco Company¹⁰
2010: Dayna Craft, Jason Stone, Deborah Larsen, Wendu Alper-Pressman, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v Philip Morris Companies Inc and Philip Morris Incorporated
2005: United States of America v Philip Morris Incorporated et al¹¹
2003: United States of America v Philip Morris¹²
2003: Susan Miles v Philip Morris Companies (No. 00-L-112)¹³
2002: Lawrence Lucier and Laurie Lucier v Philip Morris Inc.¹⁴
2002: Bullock v Philip Morris Inc.
2000: Gloria Scott et al. v American Tobacco Company¹⁵
1999: Engle v RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company¹⁶
1998: State of Arizona v American Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco, Ligget & Myers, Lorillard Tobacco Company, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, RJR Nabisco, United States Tobacco Company, BAT Industries, British American Tobacco Company, the Council for Tobacco Research USA, Tobacco Institute Inc.¹⁷
1998: State of Washington v American Tobacco Company¹⁸
1998: Patricia Hemley v Philip Morris Inc. et al.
1997: Joann Karbiwnyk v RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company¹⁹

A 2006 peer-reviewed study by Max and Tsoukalas showed that Wecker Associates, and other tobacco industry defend, were part of a tobacco industry legal strategy to create doubt and confusion about whether or not smoking caused disease that led to increased healthcare costs, at a time of unprecedented legal action against the industry.²⁰ The defenders’ role was also to argue that economic models used to calculate costs incurred by plaintiffs were not appropriate and that data sources used because they did not consist of the individuals whose health care costs were being sought.

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References

↑Wecker E. Williams Associates, Clients, undated, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, Deposition of Laurentius Marais, Ph.D., May 22 2002, Bullock c. Philip Morris Inc., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: maraisI052402, 24 May 2002, accessed January 2018
↑W.E. Wecker, Gloria Scott, et al., Against the American Tobacco Company Inc., et al., Videotaped deposition of William E. Wecker, Ph.D., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 523240201-523240414, 1 November 2000, accessed January 2018
↑Wecker E. Williams Associates, Experience, undated, accessed January 2018
↑L. Donnelly, Medical records of thousands of patients were handed to US firms connected to tobacco industry by British health officials, Telegraph probe reveals, Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2018, accessed January 2018
↑G. Dimopoulos, A. Mitchell, T. Voon. The tobacco industry’s strategic use of freedom of information laws: A comparative analysis. Oxford University Comparative Law Forum (2016)
↑R.N. Proctor. Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. University of California Press, 2011
↑Dana Craft et al v. Philip Morris Companies, mocigarettecase.com, 2013, accessed January 2018
↑W.E. Wecker, (PMUSA’s) Expert Report of William Wecker, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3155722080-3155722146, 1 March 2010, accessed January 2018
↑W.E. Wecker, Willard R. Brown, et al. v. the American Tobacco Co., Inc., et al. Expert Report of William Wecker. On the subject of low tar and light cigarettes. 20120827. JCCP No. 4042. Case No. 711400. (San Diego Superior Court Case No. 711400), Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990556377-3990556465, 27 August 2012, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, trial testimony of William E. Wecker, PhD., accepted March 15, 2005, United States of America v Philip Morris USA Inc., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: weckerw030705er, 15 March 2005, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, Deposition of William E. Wecker, PhD., October 22, 2003, United States of America v Philip Morris Inc, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: WECKERW102203, 22 October 2003, accessed January 2018
↑W. Wecker, Susan Miles vs. Philip Morris Companies Inc.. Deposition of William Wecker. 20030110. No. 00-L-112, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990561384-3990561512, 10 January 2003, accessed January 2018
↑R.A. Brodie, Notice of Taking Expert Depositions (Richard Carchman), Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990121514-3990121524, 15 January 2002, accessed January 2018
↑Scott v American Tobacco Co. Inc. et al, Nos. 2002-CC-2449, 2002-CC-2452. Decided: November 15, 2002, caselaw.findlaw.com, undated, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, Trial testimony of William E. Wecker, Ph.D., ay 5, 1999 (p.m.), Engle v. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: WECKERW050599PM, 5 May 1999, accessed January 2018
↑R. Goodwin, R. Howard, L.V. Berke et al., State of Arizona, Plaintiffs, Vs. American Tobacco Co., Inc. Defendants. Defendants’ Fourth Supplemental Rule 26.1 Disclosure Statement (980803). No. CV 96-14769, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 83799842-83800388, 3 September 1998, accessed January 2018
↑W.E. Wecker, State of Washington, Plaintiff, vs. American Tobacco Co., et al., Defendants. Deposition of William E Wecker, Ph.D., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 522588614-522588854, 10 September 1998, accessed January 2018
↑W. Wecker, Trial transcripts. Joann Karbiwnyk, Plaintiff, vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Defendant, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 525856971-525857035, 24 October 1997, accessed January 2018
↑W. Max, T. Tsoukalas, Economics on trial: the use and abuse of economic methods in third party tobacco litigation, Tobacco Control, 2006 Dec; 15(Suppl 4): iv77-iv83

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Uganda- Timeline: Industry Interference with the Uganda Tobacco Control Bill 2014

Amalan Premkumar — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:02:12 +0000

This timeline provides a chronological overview of some of the main ways tobacco companies have tried to influence the development of the Uganda Tobacco Control Bill (now the Uganda Tobacco Control Act 2015).

Click here for an infographic of industry interference in Uganda.
Click here for the evidence countering industry arguments against tobacco control in Uganda.

Timeline of Industry Interference Concerning the Uganda Tobacco Control Bill (UTCB) 2014

Date	Event
12 April 2011	Farmers in the Kanungu region, a major tobacco growing region in Uganda, received a message from a British American Tobacco (BAT) Uganda tobacco inspector that read: “This is to inform the farmers that no company apart from BAT is allowed to sponsor the production of tobacco as provided by law. Anybody doing so will be doing it as his/her own risk.”²¹ In response, farmers in the Kanungu region appealed to the Government to help end the BAT Uganda monopoly in the sponsorship of tobacco production and urged that other players be brought on board for fairer competition.
24 July 2012	A public hearing on the UTCB was convened by the MP responsible for presenting and pushing the bill through the Parliamentary procedure (the mover of the bill). The tobacco industry was heavily represented.²²
7 August 2012	The Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU), sent Hon. Chris Baryomunsi (the current mover of the bill) and other top policymakers and institutions arguments against the UTCB.²² PSFU is a corporate member organisation that describes itself as “the focal point for private sector advocacy” that sustains “a positive dialogue with Government on behalf of the private sector”.²³ BAT is a fee-paying corporate member,²⁴ estimated to pay PSFU approximately two million Uganda Shillings in membership fees and one million Uganda Shillings in annual subscriptions²⁵ to represent the tobacco company’s interests in policy making. As described by the mover of the bill, the arguments against the UTCB were largely “misleading, inaccurate and in some instances deliberately misrepresenting the facts” and proposed that the bill would violate Uganda’s obligations under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreements.²² The TRIPS international agreement provides protection for intellectual property rights. The tobacco industry has frequently used the intellectual property argument to try to weaken legislation in other parts of the world, including Kenya, Australia and the UK. For evidence against this argument, see Countering Industry Arguments It Breaches Intellectual Property Rights.
5 June 2013	Following World No Tobacco Day, in an article for the Ugandan Observer titled “Anti-Tobacco critics should go slow”, BAT Uganda Managing Director, Jonathan D’Souza, pledged the tobacco company’s support for the regulations, but asked that they be considered on the industry’s terms in a manner that is “sensible, balanced and enforceable for the benefit of all stakeholders”.²⁶ D’Souza went on to explain that strictly regulating tobacco will result in an increase in illicit trade by “a network of criminals” and that anti-tobacco critics “should be careful what they wish for”. He continued: We (BAT Uganda) “are a legitimate company which conducts our business in a professional and responsible way, abiding by the laws in all the countries we operate in, often going above and beyond our legal requirements.”²⁶ See Countering Industry Arguments It Will Lead to Increased Smuggling for evidence against the claim that regulation will increase illicit trade and BAT Involvement in Tobacco Smuggling for background on the company’s complicity in smuggling. Also see BAT Uganda and the UTCB for more information on how the tobacco company has worked behind the scenes to undermine the bill despite claiming to be responsible.
5 June 2013	Farmers from the Bunyoro region protested against the UTCB, which they had been led to believe would stop them from growing tobacco entirely, leaving farmers “confused whether their crop will be bought because we have heard about a possible ban on tobacco growing”.²⁷ At this time the farmers of the Bunyoro region were predominantly contracted for BAT Uganda.²⁸ The information concerning a ban on growing tobacco was entirely misleading, as the proposed UTCB seeks to regulate the manufacture, sale and use of tobacco products but does not suggest a ban on tobacco growing.²⁹
5 November 2013	While awaiting the release of the certificate of financial implications on the UTCB from the Ministry of Finance, the tobacco industry lodged a complaint to the Permanent Secretary to the Ugandan Treasury. The Permanent Secretary subsequently wrote a letter to the clerk of the National Parliament, in which he expressed, among other issues raised by the industry, their claim that they were not consulted as stakeholders in the drafting of the UTCB. The letter was intended to seek audience between the tobacco industry and the Parliament so that their petition could be considered.³⁰
29 January 2014	The Ministry of Agriculture wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury at the Ministry of Finance insisting that the ban on tobacco growing through the UTCB would have “serious negative effects” on farmers and the government, stating that amongst other things: “About 75,000 Tobacco farming families with about 70% of their income derive from Tobacco will lose their income and livelihood” and that “The country will lose export earnings in terms of foreign exchange currently at 75 million dollars per year”.³¹ This information is misleading, as the UTCB makes no reference to banning tobacco growing in Uganda nor does it regulate the export of tobacco products.³¹
28 February 2014	Uganda Tobacco Control Bill Gazetted³²
6 March 2014	Tobacco Control Bill tabled in the Uganda parliament for the first reading by Kinkizi East MP Dr. Chris Baryomunsi³³
17 March 2014	A news report claimed that details had emerged which suggested that officials from BAT Uganda had “secretly met” with members of key parliamentary committees including the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development, the Budget Committee and the Natural Resources Committee, in an attempt “to lobby them against passing the Tobacco Control bill 2014”.³⁴ This can be viewed as a breach of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which among other things sets guidelines for interaction between governments and the tobacco industry, to limit industry interference with tobacco control and health policies.
19 March 2014	BAT was accused of “blackmail” by the MP responsible for drafting and pushing the bill through parliamentary procedure.³⁵ In a letter addressed to the MP that was the mover of the bill, BAT Uganda Managing Director D’Souza expressed his concerns with the draft tobacco control legislation and informed the MP that while “We would normally start contracting farmers in the area during May…we regret to inform you that we will not be contracting farmers in Kihihi MP’s constituency for the 2014/15 season” as the challenges arising from the UTCB make it “impossible for us to commit at this point, to another season of tobacco sponsorship in Kihihi “.³⁶
7 April 2014	A letter was sent from the Managing Director of BAT Uganda and the Uganda Tobacco Service (UTS) along with the Regional Leaf Manager from Leaf Tobacco & Commodities (LTC) to the Clerk of the Parliament highlighting the significant contributions the tobacco sector had made to the Ugandan economy and requesting permission to organise a meeting with MPs from tobacco growing areas “to discuss a number of operational issues touching on tobacco activity in their respective constituencies”.³⁷ This can be viewed as another tobacco company violation of the FCTC.
11 April 2014	At a closed invitation presentation hosted at the Sheraton Hotel Kampala, the tobacco industry lobbied MPs from tobacco growing districts proposing arguments to challenge the UTCB. The tobacco industry arguments leaned heavily on the negative consequences the bill potentially might have on tobacco farmers within the MP’s constituencies, claiming that the industry is responsible for supporting three million livelihoods in Uganda (10% of total population).³⁸
11 April 2014	The Ministry of Trade collaborated with the tobacco industry to compile a submission to the Parliamentary Committee on Health regarding the UTCB.³⁹ The submission outlined the tobacco industry’s arguments against the different components of the UTCB, without citing evidence to support any of their claims.
14 April 2014	BAT Uganda submitted a letter and review of the UTCB to the Parliamentary Committee on Health, in line with what they called “the principle of consultation as enshrined in the Constitution of Uganda (1995)” despite the limitations the FCTC places on its necessary restriction in policymaking.⁴⁰ On the same day, under the leadership of BAT, the tobacco industry of Uganda gave a presentation to the Parliamentary Committee on Health providing their input on the UTCB, and suggested that the majority of clauses within the bill be repealed or amended according to the tobacco industry’s recommendations. ⁴¹
25 April 2014	Jonathan D’Souza, Managing Director of BAT Uganda, spoke out publicly against the UTCB Clause 15 (3), which seeks to ban the display of tobacco products at any point of sale and claimed that “there is no evidence to support a ban on tobacco displays” and that “display bans would also increase the illicit tobacco trade by driving legal tobacco sales under the counter.”⁴² When plain packaging legislation was being debated in the UK and Australia, the tobacco industry also suggested it would lead to an increase in illicit trade. See Countering Industry Arguments: Plain Packaging leads to Smuggling for evidence against this claim. Also see Uganda – Countering Industry Arguments Against Tobacco Control in Uganda for evidence on the effectiveness of display bans.
1 June 2014	A letter was sent from the Ugandan Tobacco Growers Association (UTGA) to the Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda which outlined arguments opposing the UTCB.⁴³ The arguments were presented as the voices and opinions of tobacco farmers in Uganda. However, the UTGA is a country member of the International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA),⁴⁴ a front group set up, funded and mandated by multinational tobacco companies, including BAT, Philip Morris International and Alliance One International.⁴⁵ Therefore, although UTGA may seem to be independently representing tobacco farmers in Uganda, this is misleading as it is actually representing tobacco company interests. The tobacco industry frequently establishes Front Groups and uses these seemingly independent organisations to appear to represent other stakeholder voices while actually furthering its own interests.
17 July 2014	A petition in favour of the UTCB was presented by farmers of West Nile Region, Kanungu and Hoima Districts to the Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda outlining the various reasons for their support of the bill.⁴⁶ ⁴⁷ This outlines the fact that there are groups of independent farmers not connected to tobacco industry funded front groups like UTGA that support tobacco control measures that will protect them from the detrimental and inequitable way tobacco companies run their business.⁴⁷
16 September 2014	Regional media reported that tobacco industry funded front group ITGA had “instigated a group of tobacco farmers to petition the Ugandan parliament to delete key provisions that exclude incentives or privileges that promote tobacco businesses in the Ugandan Anti-Tobacco Bill 2014,”⁴⁸
26 September 2014	The Minister for Trade Industry and Cooperatives submitted a memorandum to the Cabinet outlining why the Ministry should be represented at the FCTC 6th Conference of Parties (COP) in Moscow. The paper highlighted the importance of a multi-sectorial approach and reiterated arguments made by the tobacco industry against the bill, citing issues around intellectual property regulations, increased illicit trade and alluded to the fact that the ban on tobacco growing would had countrywide impacts, thereby misrepresenting the true objects of the UTCB, which do not seek to ban tobacco growing.⁴⁹
November 2014	A press release from BAT Uganda was published in a local newspaper celebrating 50 years of Ugandan independence and BAT’s 85 years of business in Uganda. The release highlighted its contribution to the economy and its support to tobacco farmers, the environment and food security. It concluded by referring to the potential for tobacco control regulation and the need to include the “corporate compliant industry” in policymaking: “Therefore the industry is fully in support of tobacco regulation but crucially calls for practical, sustainable and enforceable laws. This, the industry hopes, will be reached through engagement of all industry players and regulators. Openly sharing information is required to help policy formulators develop appropriate policy and regulatory frameworks from an informed point of view and forge an amicable way forward as the country ushers in the next 50 years.”⁵⁰
17 November 2014	In a letter to the Clerk of the Parliament, Dr. Okuonzi Sam Agatre, MP for Vurra (a tobacco growing area), requested to present a petition with over 1000 signatures from tobacco farmers to the parliament Business Committee.⁵¹ The enclosed petition insisted that they be included in the shaping of the legislation and states, “Your humble petitioners will be rendered landless, jobless, homeless, poverty stricken, will suffer hunger and even death if their interests are not put into consideration while handling the Tobacco Control Bill 2014.” The petitioners request “intervention by Parliament so to protect the interests of tobacco growers and tobacco companies”.
2 January 2015	While attending the official leaving ceremony of Jonathan D’Souza, outgoing Managing Director of BAT, the Minister for Investment Dr. James Mutemde spoke out about the UTCB claiming it was “unfair” and argued that the proposed law would impact negatively on tobacco production, advertising and consumption. According to local media reports, he added that the government should support tobacco processing companies because they provide a stable market for tobacco growers. The Minister concluded that “…while it is true that smoking causes diseases such as cancer, the smokers generate a lot of income for the government through taxes and I strongly believe they should be left to smoke!”⁵²
14 July 2015	UTCB tabled for second reading at the Uganda Parliament by the second mover Hon. Rosemary Nyakikongoro.⁵³
28 July 2015	After multiple setbacks due to lack of consensus⁵⁴ and intense tobacco industry interference, the Uganda Tobacco Control Bill was passed in the Uganda parliament. The “stringent” tobacco control measures, sought to protect the Ugandan population against the health, social, economic and environmental consequences of tobacco and exposure.⁵⁵ The new legislation introduced a range of tobacco control measures, which included increasing the age of legal purchase of cigarettes to 21 years of age,⁵⁴ the introduction of graphic health warnings to cover 65% of cigarette packaging and a requirement that indoor public places and workplaces are 100% smoke-free.⁵⁶
19 September 2015	Uganda President Museveni assents the UTCB (now called the Uganda Tobacco Control Act 2015).⁵⁷
2016	British American Tobacco Uganda legally challenged the regulations included in the Uganda Tobacco Control Act 2015 but were dismissed by Uganda´s Constitutional Court.⁵⁸ ⁵⁹
17 May 2016	The regulations set by the Uganda Tobacco Control Act 2015 came became fully operational on 19 May 2017, after the legal challenges by BATU were dismissed.⁶⁰
11 September 2018	Repeated hearings of the legal challenge to the Tobacco Control Act 2015, as a result of pressure from the tobacco industry.⁵⁸
April 2019	In April 2019, someone at the Ugandan Ministry of Trade passed a draft of proposed tobacco regulations to BATU. This leak resulted in a letter from British American Tobacco Uganda providing input on the proposed regulations, which generated conflicts of interest.⁶¹
28 May 2019	In response to a case brought by BATU against the TCA, Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny -Dollo, stated that “This petition, (…)is part of a global strategy by the Petitioner and others engaged in the same or related trade to undermine legislation in order to expand the boundaries of their trade and increase their profits irrespective of the adverse health risks their products pose to human population.”⁵⁹ He also argued that the Tobacco Control Act 2015 puts into provision the constitutional rights to protect the citizens of Uganda and their health.⁵⁹

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References

↑Wecker E. Williams Associates, Clients, undated, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, Deposition of Laurentius Marais, Ph.D., May 22 2002, Bullock c. Philip Morris Inc., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: maraisI052402, 24 May 2002, accessed January 2018
↑W.E. Wecker, Gloria Scott, et al., Against the American Tobacco Company Inc., et al., Videotaped deposition of William E. Wecker, Ph.D., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 523240201-523240414, 1 November 2000, accessed January 2018
↑Wecker E. Williams Associates, Experience, undated, accessed January 2018
↑L. Donnelly, Medical records of thousands of patients were handed to US firms connected to tobacco industry by British health officials, Telegraph probe reveals, Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2018, accessed January 2018
↑G. Dimopoulos, A. Mitchell, T. Voon. The tobacco industry’s strategic use of freedom of information laws: A comparative analysis. Oxford University Comparative Law Forum (2016)
↑R.N. Proctor. Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. University of California Press, 2011
↑Dana Craft et al v. Philip Morris Companies, mocigarettecase.com, 2013, accessed January 2018
↑W.E. Wecker, (PMUSA’s) Expert Report of William Wecker, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3155722080-3155722146, 1 March 2010, accessed January 2018
↑W.E. Wecker, Willard R. Brown, et al. v. the American Tobacco Co., Inc., et al. Expert Report of William Wecker. On the subject of low tar and light cigarettes. 20120827. JCCP No. 4042. Case No. 711400. (San Diego Superior Court Case No. 711400), Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990556377-3990556465, 27 August 2012, accessed January 2018
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↑W. Wecker, Susan Miles vs. Philip Morris Companies Inc.. Deposition of William Wecker. 20030110. No. 00-L-112, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990561384-3990561512, 10 January 2003, accessed January 2018
↑R.A. Brodie, Notice of Taking Expert Depositions (Richard Carchman), Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990121514-3990121524, 15 January 2002, accessed January 2018
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↑R. Goodwin, R. Howard, L.V. Berke et al., State of Arizona, Plaintiffs, Vs. American Tobacco Co., Inc. Defendants. Defendants’ Fourth Supplemental Rule 26.1 Disclosure Statement (980803). No. CV 96-14769, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 83799842-83800388, 3 September 1998, accessed January 2018
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Hume Brophy

Amalan Premkumar — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:16:23 +0000

Background

Hume Brophy is a public relations and lobbying firm with offices in London, Dublin and Brussels that was established in 2005.⁶²

Lobbying for Big Tobacco’s “Puppet”

In February 2011 the Guardian reported that Hume Brophy was lobbying on behalf of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN, now Federation of Independent Retailers), on the proposed Point of Sale Display Ban. The PR company, which also lobbied for British American Tobacco (BAT), had emailed UK MPs claiming a tobacco display ban would have a “devastating effect on the small business sector in your constituency”.⁶³

“The federation is a puppet of the tobacco industry,” Colin Finch, the NFRN’s president in 2001 and 2007, told the paper, accusing the industry of using “retailers to legitimise their campaign”.⁶³

BAT confirmed that Hume Brophy had attended meetings between BAT and the federation in which the campaign was discussed. However, BAT denied it used “underhand tactics” or that the federation was a front for the company.⁶⁴

Key Personnel

John Hume, Founding Partner
Eoin Brophy, Founding Partner
Conor Foley, Partner EU
Maria Cryan, Partner
Steve McCool, Partner and Head of UK business.

References

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↑W.E. Wecker, Willard R. Brown, et al. v. the American Tobacco Co., Inc., et al. Expert Report of William Wecker. On the subject of low tar and light cigarettes. 20120827. JCCP No. 4042. Case No. 711400. (San Diego Superior Court Case No. 711400), Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990556377-3990556465, 27 August 2012, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, trial testimony of William E. Wecker, PhD., accepted March 15, 2005, United States of America v Philip Morris USA Inc., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: weckerw030705er, 15 March 2005, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, Deposition of William E. Wecker, PhD., October 22, 2003, United States of America v Philip Morris Inc, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: WECKERW102203, 22 October 2003, accessed January 2018
↑W. Wecker, Susan Miles vs. Philip Morris Companies Inc.. Deposition of William Wecker. 20030110. No. 00-L-112, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990561384-3990561512, 10 January 2003, accessed January 2018
↑R.A. Brodie, Notice of Taking Expert Depositions (Richard Carchman), Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 3990121514-3990121524, 15 January 2002, accessed January 2018
↑Scott v American Tobacco Co. Inc. et al, Nos. 2002-CC-2449, 2002-CC-2452. Decided: November 15, 2002, caselaw.findlaw.com, undated, accessed January 2018
↑Unknown, Trial testimony of William E. Wecker, Ph.D., ay 5, 1999 (p.m.), Engle v. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: WECKERW050599PM, 5 May 1999, accessed January 2018
↑R. Goodwin, R. Howard, L.V. Berke et al., State of Arizona, Plaintiffs, Vs. American Tobacco Co., Inc. Defendants. Defendants’ Fourth Supplemental Rule 26.1 Disclosure Statement (980803). No. CV 96-14769, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 83799842-83800388, 3 September 1998, accessed January 2018
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↑W. Wecker, Trial transcripts. Joann Karbiwnyk, Plaintiff, vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Defendant, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: 525856971-525857035, 24 October 1997, accessed January 2018
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↑BAT Uganda, UTS and LTC, Letter to the Clerk of the Parliament, Request for a meeting with Member of Parliament from Tobacco Growing Regions, 7 April 2014
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Plain Packaging in the UK: Tobacco Industry Built Alliances

Amalan Premkumar — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:28:52 +0000

Image 1. Influencers’ diagram, PMI Corporate Affairs Update, March 2012 (slide 12)

As part of its toolbox of third-party techniques, which includes commissioning experts and funding third-party mass mobilisation campaigns, tobacco companies have built alliances more broadly with organisations with common interests. The tables presented on this page provide details of the anti-plain packaging activities of intellectual property organisations, think-tanks, general business groups and retail organisations, all of whom have financial links to tobacco companies.
In 2013 a series of Philip Morris International (PMI) private documents were leaked.⁶⁵ The documents reveal the extent of a multifaceted public relations campaign against plain packaging in the UK, including a highly detailed media campaign and detailed political analysis of the best ways to prevent the implementation of the policy.
The leaked 2012 Corporate Affairs presentation revealed that PMI had mapped out the UK legislative process, including which key Government Committees and Departments would be pivotal in deciding the fate of plain packaging, noting that “Multiple Government and Stakeholder Engagement” would be required to successfully oppose the policy.
One instructive slide (Image 1) had British Prime Minister David Cameron at the centre, surrounded by his formal/informal advisers who in turn were surrounded by other “influencers”. This includes Government departments as well as key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), think-tanks, unions and business groups on both sides of the plain packaging debate.
Click on the hyperlinked organisations on this page for more detailed information on both the organisation and its activities in opposition of plain packaging.

Intellectual Property Organisations

Tobacco companies have consistently argued that plain packaging policy breaches their intellectual property rights. To this end, companies have commissioned numerous reports to support their arguments.

Organisation	Relationship with Industry	Activity
APRAM (Association des Practiciens du Droit des Marques)	PMI is a member.⁶⁶	Issued joint statements against plain packaging with sister associations European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA), Beneluxvereniging voor Merken-en Modellenrecht (BMM), the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), MARQUES, and Union-IP.⁶⁷⁶⁸⁶⁹⁷⁰
Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)	British American Tobacco (BAT) disclosed it was a member in 2015.⁷¹ In 2012, BASCAP’s Director, Jeffrey Hardy, warned the UK Government against standardised packaging without supporting scientific evidence.⁷² BASCAP went on to submit a response to the 2012 ⁷³ and 2014 consultations, and to write to both the then Home Secretary, Teresa May MP, ⁷⁴ and the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, Michael Fallon MP, after the 2014 consultation to flag the ‘serious concern’ that plain packaging would increase counterfeit tobacco in the UK.⁷⁵ BASCAP also lobbied the Enterprise Directorate-General of the European Commission in October 2014, following the UK’s notification to the EU of their proposed Tobacco Products Regulations.⁷⁶
European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA)	PMI declared membership in 2014. A few members are in-house lawyers for tobacco companies.⁷⁷	Issued joint statements against plain packaging with sister associations APRAM, BMM, GRUR, MARQUES, and Union-IP.
German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)	PMI disclosed it was a member of GRUR in 2012.⁷⁸	Issued joint statements against plain packaging in 2012 and 2013 with sister associations ECTA, BMM, APRAM, MARQUES, and Union-IP.
Markenverband DV	BAT, Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and the German subsidiary of PMI are members.⁷⁹	Markenverband co-organised a Seminar on plain packaging with BAT and PMI in 2012.⁸⁰
MARQUES	BAT, Imperial Tobacco (IMT), and PMI are fee-paying members.⁸¹	Issued joint statements against plain packaging with sister associations ECTA, BMM, GRUR, APRAM, and Union-IP.

See Countering Industry Arguments Against Plain Packaging: It Breaches Intellectual Property Rights for legal opinion on tobacco companies’ intellectual property argument.

Trade, Retail and General Business

Organisation	Relationship with Industry	Activity
Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG)	BAT, IMT, PMI and Gallaher are members ⁸²	Opposed plain packaging in the UK’s 2008 consultation on the Future of Tobacco Control and both the 2012 and 2014 consultation on plain packaging (2008 and 2014 were in collaboration with the British Brands Group). Wrote directly to Government Ministers in 2013 when it thought plain packaging would be announced in the Queen’s speech.⁸³
Association of Convenience Stores	BAT, IMT, JTI and PMI are members. ⁸⁴	Submitted a detailed response to the 2012 and 2014 consultations.⁸⁵⁸⁶ It’s Director James Lowman was vocal throughout the debate with statements and arguments from him published in retail press articles. PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified ACS as a third-party group that it planned to utilise.
British Brands Group (BBG)	Three tobacco industry members.⁸⁷	Submitted detailed responses to the UK’s 2008 consultation on the Future of Tobacco Control and both the 2012 and 2014 consultation on plain packaging (2008 and 2014 were in collaboration with the ACG). The BBG was listed as a central “third party” that PMI wanted to use as a media messenger in its anti-plain packaging campaign. The Group was vocal in its opposition, making statements and giving interviews as well as writing briefings for Parliamentarians.
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)	BAT is a member.⁸⁸	Tobacco company internal documents show that BAT and other large business lobby organisations, including the CBI, played a leading role in promoting regulatory reform in the European Union (EU), now known as Better Regulation (BR). The CBI joined BAT in an 18-month lobbying campaign to ensure businesses were consulted in all future policy making in the EU. Better Regulation has been criticised for favouring business interests over any others, for example, health.⁸⁹ In addition, prior to the final vote on plain packaging in March 2015, Director General of the CBI John Cridland urged MPs to vote against plain packaging in the UK.⁹⁰ PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified the CBI as a third-party group that it planned to utilise.
Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT)	PMI is a member⁹¹	In joint statements with other US business organisations ECAT voiced its opposition to plain packaging in 3 countries considering its implementation: Australia, the UK and New Zealand. ⁹²⁹³⁹⁴
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK	BAT is a member and a BAT executive sits on the ICC Council⁹⁵	The ICC requested a meeting with officials from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on plain packaging in January 2012. Emails between the IPO and ICC released under a FOI request suggest that the proposed meeting took place in February 2012.⁹⁶
Imported Tobacco Products Advisory Council (ITPAC)	BAT, Gallaher (JTI) and IMT are associate members and are also represented separately by the TMA.⁹⁷	The Secretary-General of ITPAC wrote to Treasury Minister, Sajid Javid MP, enclosing a document detailing the organisation’s concerns about plain packaging. The letter was copied to The Chancellor, George Osborne MP, and to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP. In it, ITPAC outline key arguments against plain packaging: evidence, illicit trade, impact of downtrading, trade and competition implications, legal implications and the risks to young people of increased availability of illicit tobacco. The document also focused on the negative impacts on government revenue of the policy.⁹⁸
National Asian Business Association	Tobacco Companies are members but it is not known which ones.⁹⁹¹⁰⁰	NABA lobbied the Treasury advising against plain packaging. ¹⁰¹ The letter referred to arguments against plain packaging raised in the PMI-funded CEBR report¹⁰², and raised concerns about illicit tobacco and better regulation. The letter was copied to the Prime Minister, Secretaries of State for Health and Business, Home Secretary, Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice, the Attorney General and the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)	PMI is a member.¹⁰³	Responded to the plain packaging consultation in New Zealand ¹⁰⁴ and Australia,¹⁰⁵ and issued joint statements with other US business organisations against the policy in these countries and in the UK. NAM also lobbied against the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision¹⁰⁶ and sent a letter directly to the Irish Prime Minister to lobby against plain packaging proposals there.¹⁰⁷
National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC)	BAT is on the Board of Directors of the NFTC.¹⁰⁸	Vocal in its opposition to plain packaging in countries considering implementation. Issued joint statements with other US business organisations in Australia, the UK and New Zealand and submitted a consultation response to the UK¹⁰⁹ and New Zealand in 2014.¹¹⁰
Rural Shops Alliance	BAT and IMT are corporate partners to the RSA. ¹¹¹	RSA accepted funding from BAT to commission a report from Visuality on the likely impact of plain packaging on rural retail businesses. ¹¹² The RSA subsequently lobbied the Department of Health over the survey’s findings. ¹¹³ In 2014, the RSA sent a letter to the Chantler Review ¹¹⁴
Scottish Grocers’ Federation	BAT, IMT & PMI are members contributing 9.7% of income from memberships.¹¹⁵	The Federation submitted a detailed response to the UK consultation in 2012, and again in 2014.¹¹⁶ PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified the SGF as a third-party media messenger that it planned to utilise. ¹¹⁷	When the UK government announced their first plain packaging consultation in 2012, TABD issued a joint statement with other US trade associations, including USCIB, the US Chamber of Commerce, ECAT, NAM and NFTC, to oppose the proposals to express their concern about possible “curtailing IP rights and branding”.¹¹⁸	Unite is the largest trade union in the UK and is “dedicated to serving the best interests of its members”¹¹⁹ Unite released statements in opposition of standardised packaging and submitted detailed responses to both the 2012 and 2014 consultations on the policy.¹²⁰	USCIB issued a joint statement with other US trade associations, including the TABD, the US Chamber of Commerce, ECAT, NAM and NFTC, to express their concern about possible “curtailing IP rights and branding”.¹²¹	Issued joint statements with other US business organisations in Australia, the UK and New Zealand in opposition to plain packaging in countries considering its implementation.¹²²	The ASI published Plain packaging: Commercial expression, anti-smoking extremism and the risks of hyper-regulation, a book written by Christopher Snowdon. ASI submitted a response to the 2012¹²³
Institute of Economic Affairs	BAT, IMT, JTI and PMI all provide funding. ¹²⁴¹²⁵	Until mid-2013, it was not known whether the IEA took tobacco company funding. Following a series of questions asked by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH (UK)) at BAT’s 2013 Annual General Meeting, it was revealed that the company funded the IEA. IMT, JTI and PMI subsequently made disclosures. During the debate, the IEA’s Director Mark Littlewood and its Director of Lifestyle Economics (a unit created during the plain packaging debate), Christopher Snowdon, were vehemently opposed to plain packaging and lobbied against the policy in TV, radio and press interviews, without disclosing any industry links. PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified the think tank as a third-party media messenger that it planned to utilise. ¹²⁶¹²⁷	The MEI published a paper Plain packaging and its unintended consequences in August 2011, which cited a PMI-funded LECG report to question the quality of the evidence on the effectiveness of plain packaging. The report also argued that the policy would increase tobacco consumption and would be likely to lead to branding restrictions in other sectors.¹²⁸
Reason Foundation	Historical funding from PMI.¹²⁹¹³⁰	In 2011, Tom Clougherty, then Managing Editor for Research at the Reason Foundation, who had also been an executive director of the Adam Smith Institute published a blogpiece on the Adam Smith Institute website criticising plain packaging for being a tool to stigmatise smokers.¹³¹
Washington Legal Foundation	Historical financial links with PMI.¹³²¹³³	Published “Erasing Intellectual Property: ‘Plain packaging’ for consumer products and the implications for trademark rights” written by tobacco industry consultants Patrick Basham and John Luik.¹³⁴ Submitted a response to the UK 2012 consultation in opposition of plain packaging.¹³⁵

TobaccoTactics Resources

TCRG Research

Standardised tobacco packaging: a health policy case study of corporate conflict expansion and adaptation, J. L. Hatchard, G. J. Fooks, A. B. Gilmore, BMJ Open, 2016;6:e012634 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012634

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↑^a^bJamie Doward and Alex Ascherson Tobacco firms accused of funding campaign to keep cigarettes on display, The Guardian, 26 February 2011, Accessed March 2021
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↑APRAM, ICC BASCAP, BMM, CABD, ECTA, MARQUES, Unifab, UNION-IP, Reflection on the adoption of ‘plain packaging’ legislation, French, 28 March 2014, accessed April 2014
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↑Markenverband, Seminar Plain Packaging, 28 June 2012, accessed September 2016
↑MARQUES, Members, Enter the name of tobacco companies into organisation search bar, accessed August 2016
↑R. Orchard, ACG General Director’s letter to Jeremy Hunt et al, ACG, 12 March 2013
↑PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified ACG as a third-party group that it planned to utilise.
↑ACS, Premier Club, cached October 2014, WebCite Archive
↑Department of Health, Consultation on standardised packaging of tobacco products: Summary Report, July 2013, accessed August 2016
↑Department of Health, Consultation on the introduction of regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products: Summary report, February 2015, accessed August 2016
↑Department of Health, Anti-Counterfeiting Group & British Brands Group response to the 2014 consultation on standardised packaging for tobacco products, Pdf 8 of consultation responses, accessed August 2016
↑European Transparency Register, British American Tobacco,European Commission, accessed July 2016
↑Smokefree Partnership, The Origin of EU Better Regulation – The Disturbing Truth. 2010
↑C. Henry, CBI: Plain cigarette packaging vote is bad for the UK, “City AM”, 11 March 2015, cached August 2015
↑PMI, Carbon Disclosure Project 2012 Information Request, accessed February 2015
↑US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Council for International Business, the Emergency Committee for American Trade, the US-ASEAN Business Council, the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue and the National Foreign Trade Council, NFTC joins other leading US business groups in opposing the Australian Government’s proposed plain packaging legislation, Press Release by National Foreign Trade Council, 1 June 2011, cached February 2013
↑US Chamber of Commerce, TABD, ECAT, NAM, USCIB, NFTC, Business groups issue statement expressing deep concern following announcement by Her Majesty’s Government that the United Kingdom is starting a public consultation to review the mandated destruction of trademarks and branding in the tobacco sector, PR Newswire Press Release, 13 April 2012 accessed July 2014
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↑¹³⁸ PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified the Trade Union as a third-party influencer that it planned to utilise. ¹³⁹ United States Council for International Business (USCIB) In 2014 PMI was listed as a member.¹⁴⁰USCIB, , Screengrab of USCIB website taken 2 May 2014
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Think-tanks

Right of centre, neoliberal or libertarian think tanks have opposed plain packaging, particularly on grounds of illegality, the protection of intellectual property rights and excessive state intervention in the market (or ‘nanny-statism’).

Organisation	Funder	Activity
Adam Smith Institute	In 2013, 3% of its funding came from tobacco companies. ¹⁴⁴J. Doward, Health groups dismayed by news ‘big tobacco’ funded rightwing thinktanks, The Observer, 1 June 2013, accessed June 2013 ↑and 2014¹⁴⁵ public consultations on the policy.
Centre for Policy Studies	History of taking tobacco company funding.	Tim Knox, then acting Director of the CPS, co-signed a Letter to the Editor of “The Telegraph” in March 2011 from the ‘Enemies of Enterprise’ opposing plain packaging on grounds that it would increase the regulatory burden on businesses and make counterfeiting easier for the illicit tobacco trade. ¹⁴⁶ P. Basham, E. Butler, D. Edmunds et al, “Enemies of enterprise seek controls on tobacco”, The Telegraph, 9 March 2011 ↑J. Doward, Health groups dismayed by news ‘big tobacco’ funded rightwing thinktanks, The Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs received money from cigarette firms, it has been revealed, the Observer, 1 June 2013, accessed August 2016 ↑S. Stotesbury, Head of Regulatory Science, Imperial Tobacco, Email to University of Bath, 25 March 2014 ↑
Montreal Economic Institute	3.4% of MEI’s annual budget in 2004 came from “companies working in the field of sales of cigarettes.”¹⁴⁷M. Kelly-Gagnon, Textes d’Opinion: Cout des groups de pression Montreal Economic Institute, 24 January 2004 ↑Non-Smokers Rights Association Smoking and Health Action Foundation, Exposing recent tobacco industry front groups and alliances, October 2008 (accessed October 2016) ↑M. Kelly-Gagnon, Plain packaging and its unintended consequences, Montreal Economic Institute, August 2011 ↑Unknown, 930000 Corporate contributions report for PM USA / NYO 1993, Philip Morris Records, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents ↑SourceWatch, Reason Foundation, accessed August 2016 ↑T. Clougherty, Reason Foundation, Plain packaging for cigarettes, Adam Smith Institute Blog, 22 September 2011 ↑, 21 March 1995, Tobacco Truth Documents Library ↑SourceWatch, Washington Legal Foundation, accessed August 2016 ↑P. Basham, J. Luik, Democracy Institute, Erasing Intellectual Property. ‘Plain Packaging’ for consumer products and the implications for Trademark rights, Washington Legal Foundation, 2011 ↑ The post Plain Packaging in the UK: Tobacco Industry Built Alliances appeared first on TobaccoTactics. European Communities Trademark Association Amalan Premkumar — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:56:29 +0000 The European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA) describes itself as a non-profit organisation, whose membership comprises of lawyers and attorneys who practice in the field of trademarks and designs in the European Union (EU). The organisation has close links with the European Commission and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) and “is recognised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as a non-governmental organization.”¹⁶⁰ It also has a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Anti-Fraud office, OLAF.¹⁶¹ The Association proudly states: “ECTA is the first IP property association to establish a Memorandum of Understanding with an institution that is internationally recognised in the fight against counterfeiting in Europe….ECTA is honoured to be surrounded by such experienced and recognised partners and we believe this collaboration will contribute to a better promotion and protection of IP rights in Europe.” Connection to the Tobacco Industry In a 2014 document ECTA made a statement of disclosure of an indirect financial connection to the tobacco industry: “ECTA declare that a very few of its members are employed in-house lawyers and attorneys in the tobacco industry, among the considerable range of industries represented in the ECTA membership. To this extent only it can be said that ECTA, through these subscriptions, receives funding from the tobacco industry. Subject to this, ECTA does not have any links to, or receive any funding from, any part of the tobacco industry.” Screen grab of ECTA events webpage (March 2014) Sister Associations ECTA is openly affiliated with a number of other associations that it refers to as its “Sister Associations”: the Association of Trademarks and Designs Rights Practitioners (APRAM), Beneluxvereniging voor Merken-en Modellenrecht (BMM), the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), MARQUES, and Union-IP. All of these associations represent their members’ interests in intellectual property issues. Together, these associations have lobbied in favour of upholding the intellectual property of tobacco companies. Against Plain Packaging UK 2012: Shortly after the launch of the initial UK Consultation on Plain Packaging for tobacco products in April 2012, a joint statement was issued by ECTA, APRAM, BMM, GRUR, MARQUES and Union-IP. The organisations argued that the proposed legislation: “would adversely affect the markets, with harmful impacts on the economy as a whole as would be derived from escalating counterfeiting and piracy throughout the EU and worldwide.”¹⁶² It also stated that: “trademarks…are relied upon by consumers as signposts of genuine goods and services…Trademarks also indicate the source of goods and services to assure consumers on the quality of the products that they purchase or that they would consider purchasing. This fundamental function cannot be fulfilled if trademarks are not noticeable, or unavailable…would lead to consumer confusion and therefore diminish the goodwill acquired in that brand through considerable investment and effort over a significant period of time. In fact the inability to call for or recognize a brand also takes away a consumer’s freedom of choice.” The statement did not offer any evidence to support these concerns. Nevertheless, in its submission to the UK Consultation on plain packaging, Japan Tobacco International cited it as an argument against the policy.¹⁶³ UK 2013: The sister associations issued a follow up to this statement in July 2013.¹⁶⁴ ECTA also made its own submission to the UK consultation, without declaring the organisation’s links to the industry. Before that, ECTA stated its opposition to any proposals for plain packaging in its response to the 2008 UK consultation on the future of tobacco control.¹⁶⁵ UK 2014: ECTA has made similar objections to the policy in Ireland. It submitted a document in January 2014 arguing that the policy has consequences for trademark rights and illicit trade, particularly counterfeiting. In this statement ECTA cited a London Economics report called “An analysis of smoking prevalence in Australia”. London Economics is an economic research consultancy and was commissioned by Philip Morris International to produce the referenced report. Image 1: First page of joint statement from ECTA and its sister associations objecting to the proposals for revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive, particularly the adoption of plain packaging and 75% health warnings On 25 June 2014, in response to Ireland’s decision to carry forward plain packaging legislation, ECTA released another joint statement with its sister organisations and other affiliated intellectual property organisations. In the statement, the signatories expressed “great concern” over the Irish Government’s decision, stating that plain packaging laws “amount to an indirect legislative expropriation” of property rights and suggesting that implementing plain packaging requirements for tobacco products will only be the first of many such requirements for other “unhealthy” products.¹⁶⁶ In closing, the signatories called upon the Irish Government not to proceed with the legislation and for other EU Member States to caution the Irish Government against such actions. No factual evidence was quoted in the letter. Organisations’ affiliations with tobacco companies were also omitted; BMM, CSZV, ICC, MARQUES, and Unifab all have fee-paying tobacco company members, ECTA has members that are employees of tobacco companies, and Union-IP is a Sister Association of ECTA,APRAM, BMM,and MARQUES. Against the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision In early 2013, ECTA reaffirmed that plain packaging was a priority for the organisation in 2013: “plain packaging knocked on European doors in December with the publication of the European Commission’s revised proposal for the Tobacco Directive. It should be clear that the defence of the free use of brands must not be confused with the promotion of the product itself. This distinction is fundamental. In this context, ECTA’s mission has been particularly challenging. After the publication of the proposal, ECTA together with other associations submitted a joint statement to Michel Bernier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Currently, the proposal is with the European Parliament, therefore the matter of standardised packaging will remain one of the top priorities for ECTA in 2013.” Remaining true to this priority, in July 2013, together with its sister associations, ECTA submitted a statement objecting to the provisions outlined in the proposed EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision(See Image 1). ¹⁶⁷ The statement urged the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee to vote against plain packaging and “excessively large health warning labels on packaging” which the sister associations labelled “extreme amendments” to the proposed Tobacco Products Directive revision. Image 2: Influencers diagram snipped from PMI UK Corporate Affairs Update March 2012, Leaked in 2013 ECTA Identified by Philip Morris International as an ‘Influencer’ In mid-2013, internal PMI documents authored in early 2012 revealed that the company planned a multi-faceted campaign to oppose the British government’s proposal to introduce plain packaging.¹⁶⁸¹⁶⁹ ECTA was one of the central “third party” groups that PMI wanted to use in its anti-plain packaging campaign. The leaked presentations show that PMI identified all those whom it considered to be major players in the UK legislative decision-making process. PMI named ‘key committees’ such as the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insight Unit, the Regulatory Policy Committee, the Government’s Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS), and Reducing Regulation Committee (RRC) which, among other things, strives to reduce the burden of regulation in accordance with the principles of better regulation. PMI also detailed a model centred around UK Prime Minister David Cameron, the “decision maker” (see Image 2). Cameron, depicted at the epicentre, is surrounded by nine “formal/informal advisors” who in turn were surrounded by a large number of “influencers” including MPs, Lords, Government departments and a series of non-governmental organisations, charities and lobby groups (see Image). Included amongst the lobby groups identified by PMI as influencers was the ECTA. See also: PMI’s Anti-Plain Packaging Lobbying Campaign PMI’s Anti-PP Media Campaign TobaccoTactics Resources Global Trademark and Intellectual Property Rights Groups Plain Packaging EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision Third Party Techniques References ↑Wecker E. Williams Associates, Clients, undated, accessed January 2018 ↑Unknown, Deposition of Laurentius Marais, Ph.D., May 22 2002, Bullock c. Philip Morris Inc., Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, Bates no: maraisI052402, 24 May 2002, accessed January 2018 ↑W.E. 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Doward, Tobacco Giant “tried blackmail” to block Ugandan anti-smoking law, The Observer, 12 July 2014, accessed December 2020 ↑BAT Uganda, Letter to the Member of Parliament Kinkizi Country East, Suspension of Tobacco Growing operations in Kihihi, 19 March 2014 ↑BAT Uganda, UTS and LTC, Letter to the Clerk of the Parliament, Request for a meeting with Member of Parliament from Tobacco Growing Regions, 7 April 2014 ↑Tobacco Industry Presentation, Tobacco Industry Key Concerns: The Tobacco Control Bill 2014, 11 April 2014 ↑Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Submission to the Parlimentary Committee on Health on the Tobacco Control Bill 2014, April 2014 ↑D’Souza, J. BAT Uganda. 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Peiris, To improve health and save lives for generations – Uganda Passes Comprehensive TC Law, Asian Tribune, 8 August 2015, accessed December 2020 ↑Center for Tobacco Control in Africa, Uganda’s President assents the Tobacco Control Act 2015, September 2015, accessed December 2020 ↑^a^bRusoke, Taddeo & Talibita, Moses & Kirigwajjo, Moses & Wanyonyi, Emma, Africa Tobacco Industry Monitoring Country Report for Uganda, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30178.76482, September 2020, accessed November 2020 ↑^a^b^cTobacco Control Laws, BAT Uganda Ltd v. Attorney General & Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, 2016, accessed November 2020 ↑WHO, 2018 GLOBAL PROGRESS REPORT on Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, accessed December 2020 ↑Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index, Uganda Country Factsheet, November 2020, accessed November 2020 ↑Hume Brophy, Who we are, Company website, Accessed March 2021 ↑^a^bJamie Doward and Alex Ascherson Tobacco firms accused of funding campaign to keep cigarettes on display, The Guardian, 26 February 2011, Accessed March 2021 ↑Jamie Doward, British American Tobacco admits funding campaign against display ban, The Guardian, 28 May 2011, Accessed November 2020 ↑Philip Morris International, UK Corporate Affairs Update, February 2012. Powerpoint leaked to Action on Smoking and Health, 2013 ↑EU Transparency Register, Philip Morris International Inc, Financial year 01/2014-12/2014, 27 April 2015, captured 26 July 2016 ↑APRAM, BMM, ECTA, GRUR, MARQUES, Union-IP. 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IP Associations’ strong concerns with the Irish Government’s decision to proceed with plain packaging legislation, ECTA website, 25 June 2014, cached October 2015 ↑APRAM, ICC BASCAP, BMM, CABD, ECTA, MARQUES, Unifab, UNION-IP, Reflection on the adoption of ‘plain packaging’ legislation, French, 28 March 2014, accessed April 2014 ↑EU Transparency Register, British American Tobacco , Financial Year 01/2014 – 12/2014, Entry made 4 May 2015 ↑BASCAP, Plain packaging of tobacco raises broader issues for consumers, government and business, ICC Website, 16 April 2012, accessed September 2016 ↑BASCAP, , ICC website, August 2012, accessed September 2016 ↑J.Hardy, BASCAP, , ICC Website, 25 August 2014, accessed September 2016 ↑J. Hardy, BASCAP, , ICC Website, 25 August 2014, accessed September 2016 ↑J. Hardy, BASCAP , ICC Website, 14 October 2014, accessed September 2016 ↑ECTA, Joint Oirecachtas Committee on Health and Children. Pre-legislative scrutiny of proposed law for ‘standardised’ or plain packaging for cigarettes – ECTA comments, Brussels, 15 January 2014, cached April 2015 ↑EU Transparency Register, , Financial Year 01/2012 – 12/2012, accessed 25 March 2014 ↑Markenverband, Unsere Mitglieder, Markenverband Website, 2008-2015, accessed September 2016 ↑Markenverband, Seminar Plain Packaging, 28 June 2012, accessed September 2016 ↑MARQUES, Members, Enter the name of tobacco companies into organisation search bar, accessed August 2016 ↑R. Orchard, ACG General Director’s letter to Jeremy Hunt et al, ACG, 12 March 2013 ↑PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified ACG as a third-party group that it planned to utilise. ↑ACS, Premier Club, cached October 2014, WebCite Archive ↑Department of Health, Consultation on standardised packaging of tobacco products: Summary Report, July 2013, accessed August 2016 ↑Department of Health, Consultation on the introduction of regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products: Summary report, February 2015, accessed August 2016 ↑Department of Health, Anti-Counterfeiting Group & British Brands Group response to the 2014 consultation on standardised packaging for tobacco products, Pdf 8 of consultation responses, accessed August 2016 ↑European Transparency Register, British American Tobacco,European Commission, accessed July 2016 ↑Smokefree Partnership, The Origin of EU Better Regulation – The Disturbing Truth. 2010 ↑C. Henry, CBI: Plain cigarette packaging vote is bad for the UK, “City AM”, 11 March 2015, cached August 2015 ↑PMI, Carbon Disclosure Project 2012 Information Request, accessed February 2015 ↑US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Council for International Business, the Emergency Committee for American Trade, the US-ASEAN Business Council, the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue and the National Foreign Trade Council, NFTC joins other leading US business groups in opposing the Australian Government’s proposed plain packaging legislation, Press Release by National Foreign Trade Council, 1 June 2011, cached February 2013 ↑US Chamber of Commerce, TABD, ECAT, NAM, USCIB, NFTC, Business groups issue statement expressing deep concern following announcement by Her Majesty’s Government that the United Kingdom is starting a public consultation to review the mandated destruction of trademarks and branding in the tobacco sector, PR Newswire Press Release, 13 April 2012 accessed July 2014 ↑US Chamber of Commerce, TABD, ECAT, NAM, NFTC, USCIB, US Business Groups Issue Statement Expressing Deep Concern Following Announcement by the New Zealand government of a Public Consultation to Review the Mandated Destruction of Trademarks and Branding in the Tobacco Sector, Press Release by National Foreign Trade Council, 20 April 2012, cached February 2013 ↑ICC UK, Council Members, accessed December 2015 ↑ICC, ICC email to the IPO , 27 January 2012 ↑ITPAC, Consultation response from the Imported Tobacco Products Advisory Council, no date ↑Secretary-General, ITPAC, Standardised packaging on tobacco products, Letter to Treasury Ministers, 24 April 2013 ↑Email from NABA Chairman to question from the Tobacco Control Research Group, 26 August 2014 ↑Home Affairs Committee, Written Evidence: Tobacco Smuggling, pp.191-3, 6 May 2014, accessed September 2016 ↑Chairman, National Asian Business Association, Letter to the Treasury , May 2013 ↑Centre for Economics and Business Research, Quantification of the economic impact of plain packaging for tobacco products in the UK – Addendum to the report for Philip Morris Ltd, August 2013, accessed June 2016 ↑PMI, Carbon Disclosure Project 2012 Information Request, accessed February 2015 ↑Ministry of Health New Zealand, Overseas submissions on the plain packaging of tobacco products consultation, Feb 2013, accessed April 2013 ↑Department of Health & Ageing, Inquiry to Tobacco Plain Package, Appendix A, July 2011, Department of Health and Ageing, Australia, accessed April 2013 ↑B. Stallman, C. Cohen, L. Menghetti Dempsey, et al. Letter to João Vale de Almeida regarding the Tobacco Products Directive, 5 April 2013, accessed 25 June 2013 ↑C. White, Ireland: Warnings over plans to ban cigarette logos, Independent Ireland, 1 Feb 2013, accessed April 2013 ↑National Foreign Trade Council, Board of Directors, accessed July 2014 ↑National Foreign Trade Council, Submission to the UK Department of Health Consultation on the Introduction of Regulations for Standardised Packaging of Tobacco, 7 august 2014, accessed July 2016 ↑Minstry of Health, Overseas submissions on the plain packaging of tobacco products consultation, New Zealand, 21 February 2013, accessed July 2014 ↑Rural Shops Alliance, Partners, website, accessed September 2016 ↑Visuality and Rural Shops Alliance, The effects of standardised tobacco packaging on retail service in the UK, September 2012 ↑Rural Shops Alliance, Plain tobacco packs would cost retailers tens of millions of pounds a year: RSA research leads the way, 10 October 2012 ↑Kenneth Parsons, Independent Review into Standardised Packaging Of Tobacco Response From The Rural Shops Alliance, undated ↑SGF, Standardised packaging of tobacco products. 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TransAtlantic Business Dialogue/TransAtlantic Business Council (TABD/TABC)	BAT and PMI are members.¹⁷⁰TABC, TABC Member Companies, accessed July 2016 ↑
Unite	“Unite represents a large proportion of the 6,000 workers employed in the UK’s tobacco industry in JTI, IMT and BAT.”¹⁷¹ Unite, Food, Drink and Tobacco, Unite website, accessed September 2016 ↑Unite, How we help, Unite website, accessed July 2014 ↑¹⁷² PMI’s leaked anti-plain packaging strategy identified the Trade Union as a third-party influencer that it planned to utilise. ¹⁷³
United States Council for International Business (USCIB)	In 2014 PMI was listed as a member.¹⁷⁴USCIB, , Screengrab of USCIB website taken 2 May 2014 ↑
US Chamber of Commerce	Altria, who own a number of tobacco companies and an alcohol company, is a member of the US Chamber of Commerce.¹⁷⁵Altria, Government Affairs, Engaging with others: membership in policy-orientated organizations, accessed August 2016 ↑¹⁷⁶¹⁷⁷

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Organisation	Funder	Activity
Adam Smith Institute	In 2013, 3% of its funding came from tobacco companies. ¹⁷⁸J. Doward, Health groups dismayed by news ‘big tobacco’ funded rightwing thinktanks, The Observer, 1 June 2013, accessed June 2013 ↑and 2014¹⁷⁹ public consultations on the policy.
Centre for Policy Studies	History of taking tobacco company funding.	Tim Knox, then acting Director of the CPS, co-signed a Letter to the Editor of “The Telegraph” in March 2011 from the ‘Enemies of Enterprise’ opposing plain packaging on grounds that it would increase the regulatory burden on businesses and make counterfeiting easier for the illicit tobacco trade. ¹⁸⁰ P. Basham, E. Butler, D. Edmunds et al, “Enemies of enterprise seek controls on tobacco”, The Telegraph, 9 March 2011 ↑J. Doward, Health groups dismayed by news ‘big tobacco’ funded rightwing thinktanks, The Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs received money from cigarette firms, it has been revealed, the Observer, 1 June 2013, accessed August 2016 ↑S. Stotesbury, Head of Regulatory Science, Imperial Tobacco, Email to University of Bath, 25 March 2014 ↑
Montreal Economic Institute	3.4% of MEI’s annual budget in 2004 came from “companies working in the field of sales of cigarettes.”¹⁸¹M. Kelly-Gagnon, Textes d’Opinion: Cout des groups de pression Montreal Economic Institute, 24 January 2004 ↑Non-Smokers Rights Association Smoking and Health Action Foundation, Exposing recent tobacco industry front groups and alliances, October 2008 (accessed October 2016) ↑M. Kelly-Gagnon, Plain packaging and its unintended consequences, Montreal Economic Institute, August 2011 ↑Unknown, 930000 Corporate contributions report for PM USA / NYO 1993, Philip Morris Records, Truth Tobacco Industry Documents ↑SourceWatch, Reason Foundation, accessed August 2016 ↑T. Clougherty, Reason Foundation, Plain packaging for cigarettes, Adam Smith Institute Blog, 22 September 2011 ↑, 21 March 1995, Tobacco Truth Documents Library ↑SourceWatch, Washington Legal Foundation, accessed August 2016 ↑P. Basham, J. Luik, Democracy Institute, Erasing Intellectual Property. ‘Plain Packaging’ for consumer products and the implications for Trademark rights, Washington Legal Foundation, 2011 ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ECTA, Joint Oirecachtas Committee on Health and Children. Pre-legislative scrutiny of proposed law for ‘standardised’ or plain packaging for cigarettes – ECTA comments, Brussels, 15 January 2014, accessed March 2014 ↑E.Grabiak, From ACTA to standardised packaging:ECTA’s overview of 2012, World Intellectual Property Review e-Digest 2013, p16-18, accessed April 2014 ↑APRAM, BMM, ECTA, GRUR, MARQUES, Union-IP. Objection to the adoption of restrictive legislation or policy options frequently referred to as ‘generic’ or ‘plain packaging’, 23 April 2012, accessed April 2014 ↑JTI, Response to the Department of Health’s Consultation on the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products, 3 July 2012 ↑APRAM, BMM, ECTA, GRUR, MARQUES, Union-IP. Objections to the adoption of ‘plain packaging’ and excessive measures restricting normal use of trademarks . Joint Statement, 3 July 2013 ↑Department of Health. Consultation on standardised packaging of tobacco products – response form: European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA). 6 July 2012 ↑APRAM, BMM, CSZV, ECTA, ICC, MARQUES, Unifab, Union-IP. IP Associations’ strong concerns with the Irish Government’s decision to proceed with plain packaging legislation, ECTA website, 25 June 2014, accessed June 2014 ↑APRAM, BMM, ECTA, MARQUES, Union-IP. IP Associations’ strong concerns with the Irish Government’s decision to proceed with plain packaging legislation. Joint Statement, 3 July 2013 ↑Philip Morris International, UK Corporate Affairs Update February 2012. In PMI leaked docs in 2013 ↑Philip Morris International, UK Corporate Affairs Update March 2012. In PMI leaked docs in 2013 The post European Communities Trademark Association appeared first on TobaccoTactics.

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