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Open Letter to Members of the Senedd: Japan Tobacco International

In early November 2021, we wrote an open letter to members of the Senedd, highlighting concerns with Japan Tobacco International (JTI) funding Welsh charities for PR campaigns claiming to target cigarette butt littering, in relation to Article 5.3 of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), requiring governments to take measures to protect health policy “from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry”.

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