This Guardian series is focused on the huge damage of the tobacco epidemic, which continues to cost millions of people’s lives around the world every year, and the industry behind it
Revealed: the free-market groups helping the tobacco industry
More than 100 free-market thinktanks from North America to Europe and south Asia took positions helpful to the tobacco industry or accepted donations, Guardian investigation shows
Free-market groups and the tobacco industry – full database
More than 100 free-market thinktanks have argued against tobacco control policies or accepted donations from the tobacco industry, research by the Guardian shows
How tobacco industry donations cloud debates over cigarette controls
Free-market thinktanks from Malaysia to Chile and Australia received funding from the industry alongside governments as they argued against tobacco controls
Tobacco companies interfere with health regulations, WHO reports
Tobacco industry is interfering with government attempts to regulate products and aggressively pursuing new markets in Africa, World Health Organization says
Tobacco companies tighten hold on Washington under Trump
Top White House figures – including the vice-president and health secretary – have deep ties to an industry whose donations began pouring in on day one
