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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 JTI. 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 JTI.(5) Scruton also lost his job as a commentator with the Wall Street Journal due to this episode.<ref name="Maguire and Borger"> 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."<ref> R.Allison, "Wall Street Journal drops Scruton over tobacco cash", ''Guardian'' (UK), February 5, 2002. </ref>
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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