Philip Morris International (PMI) – considered the largest tobacco company in the world (excluding the Chinese National Tobacco Corporation), is gaining trust in industry-funded science by “posing as a generous supporter and concealing its involvement through third parties,” according to a new peer-reviewed published study. The research has just appeared in under the title “The UK public’s trust in involvement in science—an experimental survey.” PMI, which sells its products in more than 180 countries worldwide, is the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes, its best-selling and most-recognized product.
The paper was co-authored by researchers in the Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) at the University of Bath, the University of Colorado, and the University of Bristol. “The tobacco industry has used science to create doubt and ignorance (or “agnogenesis”) about the harms of smoking and the efficacy of regulation since the 1950s,” they wrote. “When faced with evidence that , tobacco corporations funded their own science to distract attention from industry harms and worked with public relations experts to paint themselves as “committed participants" in the scientific enterprise rather than.
..self-interested critics.
To further obfuscate the link between harms, the industry-funded purportedly independent scientific organizations. While publicly proclaiming to have transformed into a transparent organization funding robust science, PMI launched a new “.