On Monday, December 27, 2010, Noor Atika Hasanah, a petite 28-year-old secretary in Jakarta, updated her Twitter feed. From her bed at the Jakarta Respiratory Centre clinic, she wrote: “To smoking parents, please do smoke as far as possible from your children … so that they won’t get lung cancer.” Atika’s own lung problem had […]
Category: Smoke Screen Part II
The second installment ICIJ’s investigation of Big Tobacco’s global Lobbying: India, the world’s second-most important tobacco marketplace and Indonesia, among the last holdouts against a global health treaty, Mexican tobacco growers: shunned by industry, but treated as lobbyists, and Russia’s cigarette king.