Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health.

This week, Dr. Britta Matthes and Dr. Karen Evans-Reeves join us to dig into tobacco control regulation. They discuss why it is important and how the tobacco industry tries to weaken policy to protect its profits, including the ways it tailors its interference depending on international context.

Dr. Britta Matthes is a Research Fellow in the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. Britta’s research focuses on tobacco industry interference in policymaking, and the role of tobacco control advocacy. She also researches intimidation in tobacco control and other areas of public health.

Dr. Karen Evans-Reeves is an honorary research fellow of the Tobacco Control Research Group – she has been associated with the group since 2008. Karen’s research focuses on the behaviour of the tobacco industry and its affiliates, particularly in response to regulatory threat.

Sources used in this episode include:

• https://tobaccotactics.org/article/plain-packaging-opposition-in-the-uk-2012-consultation/
• https://tobaccotactics.org/article/plain-packaging-in-the-uk-second-consultation/
• https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056245
• https://blogs.bmj.com/tc/2021/05/05/menthol-tobacco-companies-are-exploiting-loopholes-in-the-uks-characterising-flavours-ban/
• https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055769

Please note, this episode was recorded in September 2024 and does not necessarily reflect the most recent developments in the UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill. More info here.

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.

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