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On August 14, former New York mayor and billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, gave a trio of anti-tobacco organizations US$20 million to up their game against the tobacco industry. In an interview with AFP, Bloomberg said the non-profit groups -- based in France, England, and Thailand -- jointly secured the three-year grant to spotlight “industry-led sabotage of policies designed to reduce tobacco use.”
The joint recipients of the grant are the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath in Britain, which, staffed by academics and journalists, has long tracked tobacco industry efforts to influence public policy, publishing its findings since 2011 on tobaccotactics.org.; The Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) in Thailand, which focuses on Southeast Asia and produces the Tobacco Industry Interference Index; and the Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in Paris, which publishes the Tobacco Atlas, a national and global statistical database, and works with governments in 50 countries.