The Philip Morris-funded Foundation for a Smoke-free World

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Materials

• Statement: Philip Morris Claims It Wants a Smoke-Free Future, So Why Is It Aggressively Marketing Cigarettes from Israel to Indonesia? (June 18, 2019) 
• Statement: Philip Morris Gets into the Life Insurance Business; What’s Next – Funeral Homes? (April 24, 2019) 
• Statement: Philip Morris Declares the “Year of Unsmoke,” But Launches New Cigarette in Indonesia and Sells Over 700 Billion Cigarettes a Year Worldwide (April 18, 2019) 
• Sick Joke: Philip Morris Repeats Call for Smoke-Free Future While It Aggressively Markets Cigarettes and Fights Efforts to Reduce Smoking Worldwide (May 30, 2018)
• Statement: If Philip Morris Is Serious About a “Smoke-Free World,” It Should Stop Marketing Cigarettes, Fighting Efforts to Reduce Smoking (Sept. 13, 2017) 
• Commentary: Philip Morris Says It Wants to Quit Cigarettes. But It’s Just Blowing Smoke, Fortune, (Jan. 15, 2018)
• Fact Sheet: The Facts About Philip Morris International: Company Is Cause of the Tobacco Problem, Not the Solution
• Backgrounder: Philip Morris International’s “Foundation for a Smoke-Free World”:The More Things Change; The More They Stay the Same

Statements by Other Organizations

• World Health Organization
• WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Secretariat
• Statement by 17 Schools of Public Health in U.S. and Canada
• Action on Smoking and Health (U.S.)
• American Cancer Society
• Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health
• Canadian Health Organizations
• International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
• Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance
• Truth Initiative
• Vital Strategies
• World Heart Federation/Global Coalition for Circulatory Health
• Compilation of Statements: Public Health Groups and Leaders Worldwide Urge Rejection of Philip Morris International's New Foundation

News and Journal Articles

• The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: The "Unsmoke" screen: the truth behind PMI’s cigarette-free future (Feb. 24, 2020)
• Reuters: Inside the Philip Morris campaign to "normalize" a tobacco device (Feb. 21, 2020)
• Reuters: Exclusive: Philip Morris suspends social media campaign after Reuters exposes young "influencers" (May 10, 2019)
• The Lancet: The Philip Morris-funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World: tax return sheds light on funding activities (June 6, 2019)
• The New York Times: How Big Tobacco Got a New Generation Hooked (May 3, 2019)
• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health: Australian researchers oppose funding from the Foundation for a Smoke‐Free World (Dec. 4, 2018)
• JAMA: The Philip Morris International–Funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (June 18, 2018)
• The Denver Post: Why the Colorado School of Public Health will refuse big tobacco money (Feb. 4, 2018)
• FCTC Knowledge Hub: The new Philip Morris-funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World: independent or not? (Jan. 20, 2018)
• Tobacco Control: Philip Morris Smoke Free Foundation: questions about independence and transparency, while top universities distance themselves (Feb. 1, 2018)
• The Lancet: Another perspective on the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (Jan. 6, 2018)
• The Wire: Top Universities Reject Big Tobacco’s Research Funding (Dec. 24, 2017)
• Voice of America: Critics Accuse New Foundation of Acting as Smoke-Screen for Big Tobacco (Dec. 17, 2017)
• Tobacco Control: Why Tobacco Control still won’t publish tobacco industry funded work, even if the funding is laundered through PMI’s new ‘independent’ foundation (Oct. 23, 2017)
• The Lancet: Toward a smoke-free world? Philip Morris International’s New Foundation is Not Credible (Oct. 14, 2017)
• BMJ: Commentary on the launch of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (Oct. 13, 2017)
• Tobacco Control: A “Frank Statement” for the 21st Century? (Sept. 19, 2017)