16,063
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
'''"I personally would like to see more explicit mention of other products open to the same criticisms as tobacco and which ought to be of equal concern to the WHO. For example, fast-food of the McDonald’s variety, which seems to be addictive, is aimed at the young, is a serious risk to health, with a worse effect on life-expectancy than cigarettes, has seriously corrosive effect on social relations and family life."'''
JTI made payments to Scruton through “Horsell’s Farm Enterprises,” the consultancy Scruton ran with his wife from their farm house in rural Wiltshire, England.'''(5)
After the Guardian revealed Scruton's email, the ''Financial Times'' dismissed Scruton from his job as a regular columnist for failing to declare his monthly retainer from Japan Tobacco. Andrew Gowers, the editor of ''Financial Times'', confirmed that Scruton had failed to inform the paper that he had been receiving an annual total of £54,000 (US$77,200) a year from Japan Tobacco.(5) Scruton also lost his job as a commentator with the Wall Street Journal due to this episode.(6) When the Guardian asked Scruton about the leaked email, he said, "The whole thing is quite immoral - the stealing of private correspondence and making it public."(7)
