Tobacco Control Images

The proof BAT breaks its own marketing code

At BAT’s AGM on 26 April in London, Adeola Akinremi  protested that BAT was selling cigarettes in quantities of two rather than packs of ten and twenty - a practice made illegal in the UK in 1991 as it makes cigarettes cheaper to buy for underage smokers. When Jeffries Briginshaw, BAT's  Head of International Political and Regulatory Affairs, insisted this was not the case Adeola  pulled out a copy of the advertisement as proof.

The Anti-Tobacco Posters from Quimper (France) 1990-1991

Alain Le Quernec is a graphic artist from Quimper (in Brittany). In 1990-1991, with his high school students he took up the tobacco industry: they produced posters linking famous cigarette brands with cancer and death, using as a signature the motto "Advertising Kills" (La Pub Tue). I explain the lawsuits that followed and the consequences and lessons for the French Tobacco Control Movement of this period in a podcast on Globalinkradio  LISTEN