Reading the linked report: https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/STOP_Report_Addiction-At-Any-Cost.pdf https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/STOP_

Reading the linked report: https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/STOP_Report_Addiction-At-Any-Cost.pdf https://exposetobacco.org/wp-content/uploads/STOP_Report_Add... it seems that the foundation was used specifically to fund think-tank-like outputs obliquely advocating for PMI's line of "heated tobacco products"—an e-cigarette-like product that has been shown by regulatory agencies to be identical to human health as smoking a real cigarette (since it not only contains addictive nicotine, like a normal nicotine ecig, but also the entire tobacco leaf itself, leading to similar rates of smoker cancer, secondhand smoke symptoms, etc, even though the different combustion processes means they don't create as much visible smoke or odor). These HTPs have become very successful in Japan, and although PMI publishes most of the research they use to argue for them directly (for example, showing they have 3x less particulates than cigarettes, ignoring that they have similar health outcomes), the FSFW seems to play more of a "think tank" advocacy role in commenting on government policies and initiatives that would stand in the way of the rollout of these HTPs (from the report): There is overwhelming evidence that tobacco tax increases are effective in reducing tobacco use (232), including evidence that it is the only intervention proven to reduce inequalities in smoking (233, 234). Despite this, on World No Tobacco Day in 2019, Marewa Glover, head of the [FSFW]’s “Centre of Research Excellence” in New Zealand, spoke out against increases in tobacco excise. In line with the tobacco industry argument that higher tobacco taxation is regressive (235), she claimed that such measures would disproportionately affect Māori populations (236). In August 2019, Glover also argued against the proposed ban on smoking in cars in New Zealand, saying (to much derision)(237) that “scientific studies have not proven that exposure to cigarette smoke in the car causes disease” (238). Luckily, seems like they've already been rejected by most governmental orgs: In September 2017, the month of the Foundation’s inception, WHO released a statement saying that “WHO will not partner with the Foundation. Governments should not partner with the Foundation and the public health community should follow this lead” (267). In 2019, hundreds of global public health experts also called for governments and the public health community to reject collaboration with the Foundation (268).