The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, created in September 2017 with an annual $80 million grant from Philip Morris International (starting January 1st 2018), valid for 12 years, constitutes -by far as of today- the biggest not for profit endowment in the field of tobacco control and harm reduction.
The Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this field since 2007 when they started to do so but the FSFW represents probably an equivalent global amount, concentrated within one organization. Therefore I believe it deserves to be observed very carefully to make sure the millions I consider coming from smokers of PMI products are spent in the most effective way to help them quit combustibles relying on the best strategies available, including harm reduction via products like e-cigarettes or snus.
How to use this blog? You can scroll down, post after post or you can look at the categories (on the left side) and click the ones you are curious about.
How to use this blog? You can scroll down, post after post or you can look at the categories (on the left side) and click the ones you are curious about.
A second blog, FSFW990 lists (as much as I could do it) the grants awarded with the information I was able to collect.
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