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Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce & Industries (FBCCI) 2019-20 FBCCI is a business organisation which promotes private sector interests in Bangladesh. British American Tobacco's current chairman Golam Mainuddin is one of FBCCI's elected directors for the 2019-2020 term. FBCCI is a strategic partner of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.[1]
Crime Stoppers International (2018) NA In 2018, Thomas Compernolle, former Senior Global Engagement Manager and current EU affairs Director of British American Tobacco, was invited to speak at the 39th Crime Stoppers International conference. [2]
Retailers Against Smuggling NA Retailers Against Smuggling is an Irish organization that gathers retailers' efforts to prevent illicit trade in the country. It is funded by the Irish Tobacco Manufacturers Advisory Committee, composed of JTI Ireland, Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco subsidiaries. [3]
Polish Confederation Lewiatan NA Polish organisation with members from BAT Poland and PMI Poland. Its website lists the organisation’s activities over the last 15 years, among which is successfully campaigning against tax rises and other benefits for the tobacco industry. [4]
International Chamber of Commerce NA This Paris-based organization was founded in 1919 and bills itself as the world's largest business organization. It regularly issues reports sympathetic to the tobacco industry and lobbied against plain packaging proposals. British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International sit on its influential anti-counterfeiting and piracy initiative. [5]
Digital Coding & Tracking Association (DCTA) NA The Digital Coding and Tracking Association (DCTA) is a front group, launched in 2013 by the four multinational tobacco companies: British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International. The DCTA has promoted the industry’s tobacco tracking and tracing technology, Codentify, often without disclosing its relationship to the tobacco industry. [6]
Americans for Prosperity Foundation 2011-2014 In response to questions from the Guardian, British American Tobacco said it donated to Americans for Prosperity, but did not disclose which years. [7]
Americans for Tax Reform 2015-2017 In response to questions from the Guardian, Japan Tobacco and British American Tobacco both disclosed they donated to Americans for Tax Reform, though did not disclose which years.[7]
The Atlas Network 2016 The Atlas Network is a thinktank based in Arlington, Virginia, which says it has more than 490 "partner" thinktanks in more than 90 countries around the world. In two annual reports in 2015 and 2016, the group said it received donations from British American Tobacco.[7]
Canadian Taxpayers Federation NA The group receives support from the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers Council, which is supported by companies including British American Tobacco.[7]
National Taxpayers Union 2012, 2017 In response to questions from the Guardian, British American Tobacco said it currently supports this organization.[7]
Australian Institute for Progress NA In 2018, the Australian Institute for Progress also signed onto a letter to the WHO opposing plain packaging, which removes branding from cigarette packaging. Johns also consulted for the the International Tax and Investment Center, which at the time received funding from Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Imperial Brands tobacco. In his role at the ITIC, Johns attacked SEATCA as an “instrument of the World Health Organization".[7]

In response to questions from the Guardian, the Institute said it is an “independent thinktank and we do work in areas which are significant to us”. Although the group said it does not disclose its funding, British American Tobacco said it had not supported AIP. [7]

Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) NA IPA has a relationship with British American Tobacco Australia and New Zealand "that goes back decades," according to Tobacco Tactics, a database run by the University of Bath, and has repeatedly taken direct funding from tobacco companies.[7]
New Zealand Taxpayers' Union NA New Zealand Taxpayers' Union has repeatedly opposed plain packaging, which removes branding from cigarettes packs. Dozens of Atlas thinktanks, including the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union, signed open letters to the World Health Organization opposing plain packaging in 2016 and 2018. In response to questions from the Guardian, British American Tobacco said it currently supports this organization.[7]
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) 2015-2017 The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) was one of dozens of free-market thinktanks which opposed plain packaging in a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 . In response to questions from the Guardian, British American Tobacco said it donated to Ideas, but did not disclose which years.[7]
Austrian Economics Center NA The Austrian Economics Center has repeatedly opposed plain packaging, which removes branding from cigarette packaging. Dozens of free-market thinktanks, including the the Austrian Economics Center, signed open letters to the World Health Organization opposing plain packaging in 2016 and 2018. In response to questions from the Guardian, Japan Tobacco and British American Tobacco both disclosed they donated to the Austrian Economics Center, but did not disclose which years.[7]
Institute of Economic Affairs 2011-2014, 2018 In 2011, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) co-signed a letter to the editor of the Telegraph calling for a "halt to the relentless campaign to 'denormalise' smoking" and pushing against plain packaging. The same year, British American Tobacco gave more than £10,000 to the IEA, and £20,000 in 2012, according to disclosures by BAT.[7]
TaxPayers' Alliance NA The TaxPayers' Alliance was among a handful of Atlas affiliates which co-signed a letter to the editor of the Telegraph calling for a "halt to the relentless campaign to 'denormalise' smoking" and pushing against plain packaging. In response to questions from the Guardian, Japan Tobacco disclosed it also donated to TaxPayers' Alliance, though did not disclose which years, and British American Tobacco said it currently supports this organization. [7]
Ukrainian Economic Freedoms Foundation 2017 Philip Morris donated $150,000 to the Ukrainian Economic Freedoms Foundation in 2017. In response to questions from the Guardian, Japan Tobacco disclosed it donated to the Foundation, though did not disclose which years. British American Tobacco said it currently supports this organization. In 2016 and 2018, the foundation was one of dozens of Atlas-affiliated thinktanks which signed a letter to the World Health Organization opposing plain packaging, which removes branding from cigarette packs.[7]
Warsaw Enterprise Institute NA Warsaw Enterprise Institute was among dozens of free-market thinktanks to oppose plain packaging in an open letter to the World Health Organization in 2018. Plain packaging removes branding from cigarette packs, and is fiercely opposed by tobacco companies. In response to questions from the Guardian, British American Tobacco said it donated to the Warsaw Enterprise Institute, but did not disclose which years.[7]
Libertad y Desarrollo 2013-2 In 2014, Chilean news reported British American Tobacco Chile funded Libertad y Desarrollo, which worked to delay a vote on the country's tobacco laws. One of the groups founders was named president of BAT Chile the same year. BAT later told the Guardian the payment was "to purchase a technical and political analysis report" written by Libertad y Desarrollo, "which are available for any person or organisation to buy".[7]
Forrest EU 2018 Forest EU is supported by the Confederation of European Community Cigarette Manufacturers (CECCM), whose members are Japan Tobacco International (JTI), British American Tobacco (BAT) and Imperial Brands PLC (IMB) and by the members of the European Smoking Tobacco Association (ESTA). Their annual budget in 2018 was EUR 165,000. [8]
The Kangaroo Group 2017 - onging The Kangaroo Group promotes free trade across the European Union. In 2017, the Group’s tobacco industry members were listed as Barry Ronan from British American Tobacco, Mario Muller from the Confederation of European Community Cigarette Manufacturers, Alan Hardacre from Imperial Tobacco, Kristof Doms from Philip Morris International and Paolo Bochicchio from Japan Tobacco International. [9]
  1. Tobacco Tactics website, Trade Association, Accessed 12 February 2020
  2. Crime Stoppers International website, Crime Stoppers International Hosts 39th Annual Conference, 2018, Accessed 19 February 2020
  3. Tobacco Tactics website, Lobby Group, Accessed 12 February 2020
  4. Tobacco Tactics website, Lobby Group, Accessed 12 February 2020
  5. Tobacco Tactics website, International Chamber of Commerce, Accessed 12 February 2020
  6. Tobacco Tactics website, DCTA, Accessed 12 February 2020
  7. 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 Free-market groups and the tobacco industry - full database, The Guardian, April 2019, Accessed 10 July 2019
  8. Forrest Online, About, Accessed 24 July 2019
  9. The Kangaroo Group, Kangaroo Members, Accessed 18 September 2019