Formerly secret records suggest a tobacco company drove changes to how European policy is made, claim and her colleagues at Bath University in the UK. They sifted through over 700 recently released emails, reports and presentations from (BAT).
Proposed European Union policy is subjected to so-called 鈥渋mpact assessments鈥�. Smith鈥檚 team says the BAT documents suggest the company recruited food, oil and chemical firms and a think tank to successfully lobby the to change the focus of these assessments away from health impacts and towards economics.
鈥淭he EU invites all interested parties to submit their views,鈥� says BAT spokeswoman Catherine Armstrong. 鈥淭hese authors seem to suggest that only people who agree with them should be allowed to voice an opinion.鈥�
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