FOI Request - Contact with Tobacco Industry

Request 101003747660

Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing the tobacco industry including subsidiaries of tobacco industry.

I would like this information for the period from 23 April 2023-  10 March

Contact would primarily include attending or arranging meetings or functions, and responding to correspondence or phone calls.

Please break down the information by:
•       Tobacco company or representative’s name
•       Date of contact(s)
•       Type of contact (meeting, email, letter, phone call, text/app message or video call, e-card or any other form of electronic communication)
•       Place of contact, if relevant
•       Purpose of contact
•       Outcome of contact, including if no action taken

Response 04-04-2025 

Japan Tobacco International (JTI)

27/3/24 – Email (authentication request)
25/4/24 – email (statement request)
30/4/24 – email (sample sent)
13/5/24 – email chase up statement.
6/6/24 – email confirmation results.

Imperial Tobacco
27/3/24 – email (authentication request)
11/4/24 – email – follow up
25/4/24 – email (sample sent)
8/5/24 – email – follow up
13/5/24 – email – follow up
6/6/24 – email – confirmation results

Reason for contact was identification of suspected counterfeit tobacco.

Report was sent to the Procurator Fiscal