Robert D. Tollison working for BAT
In 1993, Tollison and Wagner wrote the 30 page paper Who Benefits from WHO?: Decline of the World Health, commissioned by British American Tobacco as the company needed a writer to attack the WHOTollison accepted and made following proposal
BAT's Sharon Boyse refused the
offer
The LTDL is quite complete this time, so we know Tollison’s answer
The report indeed would get published by the UK thinktank Social Affairs Unit. But this memo shows Tollison sent the draft
to BAT, not Digby Anderson or the Social Affairs unit, illustrating the
SAU was not involved in writing the piece
Sharon Boyse replied thefollowing day
Digby Anderson was kept out
of the entire process leading to the report. Boyse told Tollison on May 21 he
should contact Anderson. July 7, Tollison wrote
Was the paper ordered by BAT or the Social Affairs
Unit? It is difficult to be certain, but this memo indicates it might actuallyhave been ordered by Anderson, even though why Digby
Anderson was in Venezuela at the time is not explained.
Tollison must have started working for BAT in 1993,
participating in media tours abroad. The tours seemed to have been a joint
effort with Philip Morris. Why he also
started working for BAT is not clear. Perhaps because the 1991 budget cut caused the TI to stop paying for Tollison's first class airline tickets
Media tours for BAT attended by Tollison
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Country
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1992
November 23
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1993
October 6
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1993
October 12
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1993
October 16
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1993
October 19
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1994
May 25
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In Australia, Tollison may have testified in front of the AustralianParliament
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