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'''Roger Scruton''' is a British conservative philosopher well known for publishing articles critical of tobacco control efforts in major newspapers like the ''Wall Street Journal'' and the London ''Financial Times''.<ref name="Scruton WSJ">Scruton R. ''Anything goes—except smoking'', ''Wall Street Journal, February 9, 1998, Section A18.</ref><ref>Roger Scruton, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pra63c00 "A Snort of Derision at Society"], ''London Times'', October 19, 1998.</ref> <ref>RJR International, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/baf65a00 "RJRI News Report"], RJ Reynolds, February 3, 1998. Bates No. 530540887/0901. (Accessed 07 Dec 2005). This is a compilation of news reports. Scruton's article, "A Mad World is Assaulting Us Smokers" at page -0893.</ref> Typical was an article he authored in the February 9, 1998 issue of the ''Wall Street Journal'' entitled "Anything Goes--Except Smoking," in which he portrayed government efforts to decrease smoking as a waste of time. Scruton dismissed such efforts as part of the "hysteria of modern life." A biographical line at the end of the article described Scruton only as "a philosopher living in England,"<ref name="Scruton WSJ"/> without disclosing that he was being paid by [[Japan Tobacco]], Inc. (affiliated with the [[R.J. Reynolds]] tobacco company) to place pro-tobacco opinion pieces in major newspapers.

As of November 2006, Roger Scruton's extensive curriculum vitae (posted on his personal web site at http://www.rogerscruton.com/rs-cv.html) contained no mention of his past affiliations with JTI. However, on his website listing of his 'journalism' work Scruton wrote that he contributed "a weekly column on the countryside for the Financial Times weekend magazine 'The Business'" between 1999 and 2002. "The column ceased when a combined attack from the Guardian, ASH and The Independent persuaded the editor that giving public affairs advice to Japan Tobacco International, while writing on rural affairs, amounts to a scandalous conflict of interest. ASH have all the links to the reams of hostile publicity generated and ''The Spectator'' published Roger Scruton's account of his work as a consultant to JTI," his website states.<ref>Roger Scruton, [http://www.roger-scruton.com/rs-journalism.html "The Journalist"], ''roger-scruton.com'', accessed February 2008.</ref>

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