Sweney and Bawden report, “Economist Impact, part of the Economist Group, which owns the eponymous weekly business magazine, was due to hold its 10th annual world cancer series in Brussels at the end of the month.
“The two-day event, at the Marriott Hotel Grand Palace, is touted as ‘shaping the cancer-control agenda’ and had attracted more than 300 attendees and 80 speakers.
“The Guardian understands the event was cancelled because of a backlash against ties that Economist Impact has with Philip Morris International, the world’s biggest tobacco company and owner of the most popular brand Marlboro, and Japan Tobacco International, which owns brands including Camel, Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges.”
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