Busted! Anti Electronic Cigarette Funding Revealed

This is a post we have been meaning to do for some time!

We have been tracking down funding for the electronic cigarette campaign.

Some funding has been easy to find. However, some organisations are more secretive. ASH International’s funding from suicide drug maker Pfizer was difficult to track down, as they have no reference to it on their website – and the credit for finding that goes to E Cigarette National.

(ASH International should not be confused with ASH UK. We have been through ASH UK’s balance sheets and have yet to find any funding from large pharmaceutical companies, which perhaps explains their more balanced approach to the electronic cigarette.)

Bill Godshall first mentioned GlaxoSmithKline’s secretive agreement with the American Cancer Society, while Professor Michael Siegel’s blog pointed us towards more funding for ASH.

This funding is of concern because these companies produce the nicotine cessation aids which directly compete with the electronic cigarette.

To see all the details of the funding check out this page: Big Pharm Funding of Anti-Electronic Cigarette Campaign.

We are sure there is more out there – feel free to point it out to us. (All information/help we use wil be attributed.)

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4. Is ASH guilty of double standards and hypocrisy?
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