The '''Social Affairs Unit''' [http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/] is a registered charity in the [[United Kingdom]].
'In the mid-eighties the Unit added a concern with values and started a series about virtue and social policy, including books on manners, and sanctions for deviant behaviour.'
===Tobacco industry involvement===
The Social Affairs Unit has accepted funding from British American Tobacco.[http://bat.library.ucsf.edu/tid/dqo02a99][http://bat.library.ucsf.edu//tid/jig30a99]
[http://bat.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wgz20a99]
[[Digby Anderson]], a political sociologist from the Social Affairs Unit in London, also served as a participant in the tobacco industry-funded front group [[Associates for Research in the Science of Enjoyment]], or ARISE. He was considered a "top-class expert" who helped reinforce the tobacco industry's messages.[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mta40d00] [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/sdk32e00 , at Page 6]