UK council pension funds are to seek legal advice on whether investing in tobacco companies clashes with their new responsibilities to promote public health. The Local...
Essex councillors have criticised the council’s decision to invest £5m of its £3.6 billion pension fund in large tobacco companies. A number of members have called...
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has demanded answers over Lynton Crosby’s contact with the ministers who made the decision to shelve plans for standardised cigarette packaging....
This is the fifth cartoon in our B******* as usual… series, in which we share work by Manchester-based cartoonist Polyp. For more information on Polyp, see...
Energy regulator Ofgem has announced that electricity theft in the UK is costing consumers “at least £200m”. The figures released on Wednesday equate to £7 per...
It was 56 years ago today that a 25-year Medical Research Council study confirmed that smoking caused cancer. Tobacco firms rejected the assertion as a ‘matter...
Recent decisions by councils and pension funds to ignore public health concerns and invest in the tobacco industry are not just unethical; they have very few...
It’s depressing how many wealthy white investors advocate profiting from the deaths of poor and, to not put too fine a point on it, black people. Rich...
What links geocentricists to tobacco/cancer link deniers and to the current crop of human-caused climate change deniers? There have always been vested interests, which will do...
Fund manager Australian Ethical has urged one of its stocks – recycling giant Tomra – to move away from tobacco, after it bought a company that...
Councils across the UK are investing millions into the tobacco industry through pension funds, while simultaneously working on public health issues by asking smokers to quit....
As Australian legislation comes into effect requiring companies to sell cigarettes in plain packs, there are risks that come from investing in tobacco. Just as governments...
British American Tobacco announced today that it has acquired CN Creative Limited, a UK-based start-up company that specialises in the development of e-cigarette technologies intended to...
With six days to go until our crowdfunding campaign ends, we’re exploring tenuous numerical links to the number of days left. This one isn’t overly tenuous,...
Some commentators like to paint ethical or responsible investors as a slightly deluded, financially naïve bunch of simple folk, more fond of ‘doing good’ and hugging...