Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath

Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco

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The tobacco industry has spent decades honing its deadly strategies to maximise its profits. Despite the well-known dangers of tobacco there are still eight million tobacco-related deaths each year. Why, decades after it’s deceptions were uncovered, is this industry still so powerful and profitable? This podcast, based on ground-breaking research by the Tobacco Control Research Group, exposes the tactics of the tobacco industry. Experts from the University of Bath and other organisations consider the progress that has been made in countering this deadly industry and what still needs to be done...

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Nov 4, 2025

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Episodes

Ep 16: How does Big Tobacco target different countries? 04.11.2025

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...

Ep 15: How do commercial conflicts of interest threaten science? 28.10.2025

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...

Ep 14: What really happens at WHO FCTC COP and MOP? 21.10.2025

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...

Ep 13: What stories does Big Tobacco tell about itself? 14.10.2025

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...

Ep 12: Why do corporations want a seat at the policy-making table? 07.10.2025

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 e...

Ep 11: From the docks to the boardroom - Big Tobacco in London 30.09.2025

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...

Ep 10: Where does Big Tobacco make its products? 30.09.2025

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 Tobacc...

Ep 9: How does Big Tobacco treat tobacco farmers? 30.09.2025

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 discus...

Coming soon - series two launches Tuesday 30 September 16.09.2025

✨ 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 industr...

Ep 8: Science for profit 04.03.2025

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 strategie...

Ep 7: Environmental damage 25.02.2025

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...

Ep 6: Selling harm 18.02.2025

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 an...

Ep 5: The truth 11.02.2025

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 meth...

Ep 4: Money matters 04.02.2025

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 Pro...

Ep 1: The Big Picture 28.01.2025

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, h...

Ep 3: Fighting regulation 28.01.2025

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 th...

Ep 2: Political influence 28.01.2025

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...

Coming soon 20.12.2024

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 Univers...

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