A TOBACCO company linked to David Cameron's Australian political adviser Lynton Crosby blocked the release of details of a meeting where plans to impose plain packaging on cigarette manufacturers were discussed.
An agreed note of the meeting between the world's biggest tobacco manufacturer and British health officials was published yesterday, almost six months after it was held.
Philip Morris, which hired a consultancy run by Mr Crosby, the British Prime Minister's election strategist, in November to advise on a “range of matters”, warned in the meeting that there was “limited evidence from Australia as to what the effect of standardised packaging (was) so far”.
It is understood that Mr Crosby's company, CTF, worked with the manufacturer to lobby against the policy. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, said on Friday that he wanted more time to understand the impact of plain packaging in Australia, which became the first country to introduce the measure in December.
Información publicada originalmente en: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/tobacco-giant-hid-details-of-lynton-crosby-meeting/story-e6frg6nf-1226680814233
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