Ep 8: Science for profit

About this episode

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 Research Associate (coordination) in the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath. She has a background in STEM and the Health and Social Care public sector. Sophie has acquired extensive knowledge on heated tobacco products and tobacco industry science. Sources used in this episode include: • https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntae101 • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253272 • https://www.tobaccotactics.org/article/influencing-science/ • https://www.tobaccotactics.org/article/influencing-science-case-studies/ • https://www.tobaccotactics.org/article/influencing-science-pmis-covert-science-in-japan/ * At 17.05 Sophie references the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW)