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The Philip Morris-Funded Foundation for a Smoke-free World

Last updated March 25, 2026

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Public health leaders and institutions around the world have seen through Philip Morris’ smokescreen and called on their peers not to work with the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World.

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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Materials

Statement: Philip Morris Claims It Wants a Smoke-Free Future, So Why Is It Aggressively Marketing Cigarettes from Israel to Indonesia? (June 18, 2019)
Statement: Philip Morris Gets into the Life Insurance Business; What’s Next – Funeral Homes? (April 24, 2019)
Statement: Philip Morris Declares the “Year of Unsmoke,” But Launches New Cigarette in Indonesia and Sells Over 700 Billion Cigarettes a Year Worldwide (April 18, 2019)
Sick Joke: Philip Morris Repeats Call for Smoke-Free Future While It Aggressively Markets Cigarettes and Fights Efforts to Reduce Smoking Worldwide (May 30, 2018)
Statement: If Philip Morris Is Serious About a “Smoke-Free World,” It Should Stop Marketing Cigarettes, Fighting Efforts to Reduce Smoking (Sept. 13, 2017)
Commentary: Philip Morris Says It Wants to Quit Cigarettes. But It’s Just Blowing Smoke, Fortune, (Jan. 15, 2018)
Fact Sheet: The Facts About Philip Morris International: Company Is Cause of the Tobacco Problem, Not the Solution
Backgrounder: Philip Morris International’s “Foundation for a Smoke-Free World”:The More Things Change; The More They Stay the Same

Statements by Other Organizations

News and Journal Articles

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: The "Unsmoke" screen: the truth behind PMI’s cigarette-free future (Feb. 24, 2020)
Reuters: Inside the Philip Morris campaign to "normalize" a tobacco device (Feb. 21, 2020)
Reuters: Exclusive: Philip Morris suspends social media campaign after Reuters exposes young "influencers" (May 10, 2019)
The Lancet: The Philip Morris-funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World: tax return sheds light on funding activities (June 6, 2019)
The New York Times: How Big Tobacco Got a New Generation Hooked (May 3, 2019)
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health: Australian researchers oppose funding from the Foundation for a Smoke‐Free World (Dec. 4, 2018)
JAMA: The Philip Morris International–Funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (June 18, 2018)
The Denver Post: Why the Colorado School of Public Health will refuse big tobacco money (Feb. 4, 2018)
FCTC Knowledge Hub: The new Philip Morris-funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World: independent or not? (Jan. 20, 2018)
Tobacco Control: Philip Morris Smoke Free Foundation: questions about independence and transparency, while top universities distance themselves (Feb. 1, 2018)
The Lancet: Another perspective on the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (Jan. 6, 2018)
The Wire: Top Universities Reject Big Tobacco’s Research Funding (Dec. 24, 2017)
Voice of America: Critics Accuse New Foundation of Acting as Smoke-Screen for Big Tobacco (Dec. 17, 2017)
Tobacco Control: Why Tobacco Control still won’t publish tobacco industry funded work, even if the funding is laundered through PMI’s new ‘independent’ foundation (Oct. 23, 2017)
The Lancet: Toward a smoke-free world? Philip Morris International’s New Foundation is Not Credible (Oct. 14, 2017)
BMJ: Commentary on the launch of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (Oct. 13, 2017)
Tobacco Control: A “Frank Statement” for the 21st Century? (Sept. 19, 2017)