[Comment] Towards a smoke-free world? Philip Morris International's new Foundation is not credible

Smoking causes more than 7 million deaths each year1 and tobacco companies have known, since at least 1950, that their products are lethal and addictive. Now Philip Morris International (PMI) is committing nearly US$1 billion over 12 years to the Philip Morris Foundation for a Smoke-Free World that will "fund scientific research designed to eliminate the use of smoked tobacco around the globe".2 In a Lancet Viewpoint in this issue, the Foundation's President Derek Yach argues it will support "an unswerving focus…to improve public health and human wellbeing".

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