Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. For this special international episode, Louis speaks with global tobacco expert Dr. Gan Quan and in-country experts Lisa Lennartsdotter Ermann, Daniel Dorado and Dr. Ulysses Dorotheo about how Big Tobacco tailors its interference tactics across different regions of the world. They unpick how this deadly industry co-ordinates it...
Nov 04, 2025•42 min
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. In the penultimate episode of season two, Dr Tess Legg and Dr Alice Fabbri chat with Louis about conflicts of interest in science. They break down how commercial funding of researchers can bias scientific research, why commercial actors seek to influence science and how to protect scientific processes and outputs from manipulat...
Oct 28, 2025•36 min
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. Leslie Rae Ferat and Dr Allen Gallagher join Louis in episode 6 to speak in-depth on the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s Conference of the Parties (COP) and Meeting of the Parties (MOP). They discuss what actually happens at these international treaty-signing events, the role played by civil society, how Big Tob...
Oct 21, 2025•42 min
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. It's episode five and Louis welcomes Dr. Iona Fitzpatrick to the studio to discuss the transformative power of language. They explore how the tobacco industry tells stories to manage its public image, why its claims to be a good partner in public health are not all they seem and the difference between how the industry talks to ...
Oct 14, 2025•29 min
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. This week, Louis is joined by Dr. Amber van den Akker and Dr. Nason Maani to discuss multistakeholderism - when the public sector collaborates with other sectors, including industry, to address issues of public importance. They examine why health-harming industries want a seat at the policy-making table, the implications of thi...
Oct 07, 2025•36 min
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. In this extra special episode we are out of the recording studio and in the streets of London to learn about how deep the roots of the tobacco industry are embedded in the British capital. Phil Chamberlain joins Louis to explore the close links between tobacco and British imperialism, how the industry still has its place in the...
Sep 30, 2025•36 min
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. Dr John Mehegan and Fred Dunwoodie Stirton are in the studio with Louis in this episode to explore the tobacco supply chain and its global reach. They talk about the dangers of tobacco production at various stages, how Big Tobacco exerts influence on countries that produce tobacco and why some companies hide their links to the ...
Sep 30, 2025•35 min
Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. In this first episode of the new season, Louis speaks with Professor Roy Maconachie and Dr. Pankhuri Agarwal about the experiences of farmers who produce tobacco leaf, in often exploitative conditions. In this wide-ranging discussion they consider how useful the concept of modern slavery is, how tobacco farmers can become trapp...
Sep 30, 2025•40 min
✨ Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is back for Series Two! ✨ We will return on Tuesday 30 September with eight powerful episodes exposing the tactics that let the tobacco industry remain so powerful and profitable and keep public health paying. In our new series, hosted by investigative researcher Louis Laurence, we dig deeper to uncover even more about how the industry exploits workers, influences policy, trade and taxation, and attempts to reinvent itself and curate its own image. Host...
Sep 16, 2025•1 min
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. It’s the final episode of series 1 and Dr. Sophie Braznell joins Louis to discuss the tobacco industry’s manipulation of science. They delve into how the industry interferes in the conception and publication of scientific studies and strategies to counter this misuse of science across health harming industries. Dr. Sophie Braznell is a Resea...
Mar 04, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. In the penultimate episode of series 1, Dr. Rosemary Hiscock explains about how the tobacco industry contributes to climate change. We cover how tobacco production uses up precious natural resources and harms farmers, what happens to the waste from tobacco products and e-cigarettes and tobacco company greenwashing. Dr. Rosemary Hiscock is a ...
Feb 25, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. For episode 6, Jorge Alday dials in from New York to speak about the marketing strategies of the tobacco industry. Jorge talks Louis through the history of tobacco marketing from the 18th century, why tobacco companies sponsor sports events and how the industry targets its marketing towards specific communities. Jorge Alday has 25 years of e...
Feb 18, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. This week, we are joined by Dr. Allen Gallagher to uncover the murky world of illicit tobacco products. In this episode, Louis and Allen discuss what illicit trade actually is, tobacco industry involvement in the illicit tobacco trade and methods to tackle tobacco smuggling. Dr. Allen Gallagher is a research fellow at the Tobacco Control Res...
Feb 11, 2025•33 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. Dr. Rob Branston joins Louis this week to discuss all things tobacco tax. They explore the vast profitability of the tobacco industry, how tobacco taxation works and ways in which companies avoid paying taxes. Dr. Rob Branston is Associate Professor of Business Economics at the University of Bath School of Management, and is part of the Univ...
Feb 04, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. For our first episode, our host Louis is joined by Professor Anna Gilmore to break down the tactics used by the tobacco industry. Louis and Anna talk through the definition of tobacco industry, the societal issues and health harms it causes, how the industry influences public health policy and how these tactics are replicated by other harmfu...
Jan 28, 2025•41 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. In our third podcast episode, Andrew Rowell and Tom Gatehouse speak about why tobacco companies engage in lobbying and political interference. They talk through the impact this has on attempts to protect public health, and the ways in which the industry tailors its interference depending on international context, looking at a TCRG whistle-bl...
Jan 28, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. This week, Dr. Britta Matthes and Dr. Karen Evans-Reeves join us to dig into tobacco control regulation. They discuss why it is important and how the tobacco industry tries to weaken policy to protect its profits, including the ways it tailors its interference depending on international context. Dr. Britta Matthes is a Research Fellow in the...
Jan 28, 2025•42 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco - coming in January 2025! Stay tuned for a new a weekly podcast from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. Find more episodes here: https://shows.acast.com/deadly-industry-challenging-big-tobacco The views expressed in this episode by the podcast participants (host and guests) are their own and do not reflect the views of the University of Bath or any other affiliate groups. For information on the Tobacco Control Research Group's f...
Dec 20, 2024•2 min
