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28 Apr 2005

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Christian Aid

Christian Aid presents new report to British American Tobacco

Andrew Pendleton, Christian Aid’s senior policy officer working on corporate accountability, quizzed BAT company directors at their AGM. He asked Jan du Plessis, BAT’s chairman, whether he thought a truly responsible company would back, rather than undermine efforts to curb smoking in the developing world...Mr du Plessis responded, saying that the company had no problem with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control...

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