Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation

| Importance: 8/10 | Status: confirmed

Major multinational tobacco companies secretly coordinated a long-running strategy to resist regulation and scientific consensus on smoking harms—an effort known as ‘Operation Berkshire.’ Internal documents and litigation disclosures show executives met in the late 1970s (including a 1977 meeting at Shockerwick House) and subsequently created international front groups (ICOSI/INFOTAB) to shape policy and messaging worldwide.

Key Actors

British American Tobacco Philip Morris RJ Reynolds Imperial Tobacco

Tags

corporate-collusion public-health influence-operations

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