Not Vape Related...but...Seriously?

[KulrMeStoopid]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...wer-Show-opera-worth-17-000-tobacco-firm.html


[h=1]How MPs took free tickets to Chelsea Flower Show and the opera worth £17,000 from tobacco firm[/h]

• Nine Tory MPs accepted gifts from firm that makes Silk Cut, Camel and Benson and Hedges
• Three Labour MPs also took tickets from Japan Tobacco International
• Gifts said to be proof of successful lobbying campaign that saw plans for plain cigarette packaging to be scrapped

By DANIEL MARTIN, WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT
PUBLISHED: 00:29, 15 July 2013 | UPDATED: 08:30, 15 July 2013


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-worth-17-000-tobacco-firm.html#ixzz2Z6PqSG39
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[Purplefowler]

I think there was something tobacco related in the observer or the independant this weekend too. Something about the Tory or liberal campaign manager being let go due to lack of transparency with regards to tobacco somehow. I wish I'd payed more attention to it, it was just briefly mentioned on sky new paper review on Saturday night. It does seem there is an underground movement to highlight the power of the tobacco money

 

[Cat]

I have heard of coming in through the back door, but now it seems Big Tobacco are desperate enough to even use the Garden Gate !

 

[Mark]

The influence and power of big tobacco is massive. Even many local authorities INVEST in tobacco companies ..

 

[MadTz]

I think there was something tobacco related in the observer or the independant this weekend too. Something about the Tory or liberal campaign manager being let go due to lack of transparency with regards to tobacco somehow. I wish I'd payed more attention to it, it was just briefly mentioned on sky new paper review on Saturday night. It does seem there is an underground movement to highlight the power of the tobacco money

I think this is the article that you were talking about