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If the Editor resigns, BAT wins and we lose.

Brendon Smith
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Live to fight another day

David Yates
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

moral force needed at university

Norbert Hirschhorn
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Ends and means

Edwin Kirk
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

No negotiation, no dialogue, no middle way.

Ian Wacogne
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Selling opinion

Graham Byrnes
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Just threaten to resign

Jayant Vaidya
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

It's Tainted Money

Harley Stanton
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

A step too far - In support of Richard Smith

Pamela A Hunter
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Keeping things in perspective.

Ellen Goudsmit
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Powerful statement

David Wilkinson
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

VICE chancellor

Bob Bury
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Returning the money is more powerful than resigning

V D Ramanathan
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Principles may cost

Martin Toal
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Tobacco companies should be isolated

Thomas Pfluger
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Any research money is good

Philip R Belcher
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Survey: should the editor resign

David W Evans
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Credit us with some intelligence

William Burrows
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

The cost of accepting this money is too high

Mary E Black
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

What was wrong with Uganda?

Frank Bloomfield
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Do You Really Want Us to Decide?

Jay Harlan Shores
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

A Clash of Philosophies

William L Brown
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

credibility

Carl Thomson
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

You can't campaign without a clean conscience

Martyn Williams
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Case is Clear

Adam Goldstein
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Nottingham's Centre FOR Corporate Irresponsibility

Rick Bernardo
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Credibility to Tobacco Companies

A K C Peiris
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

The Ethics of the CRC

Robert Dingwall
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Beyond the Absurd

Ann Maxwell Eward
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Matter of own conscience and ethics

Thomas Houston
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

You Decide

Ana-Maria Valero
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Don't help the tobacco industry!

Olivier Irion
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Blood money

Fernand Turcotte
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Courage to stand behind beliefs

Megan Gutelius
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Tainted Money?

W L Hamilton
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Trusted to teach ethics?

Peter Ewing
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

make good use of the money!

Roberto Fiszman
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

no clean hands

Jeanne Wiley
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

It is an ethical issue

Padraig Quinn
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

BAT's Victory

Imran Aziz
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

California debate

Frederic W Grannis
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Going Too Far

Charles Phelps
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Tobacco - a global issue

Mary Lyons
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Yes and No!

Chris Pearson
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Classic No brainer

Victoria Williams
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Stay there!

Trevor Kerr
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Don't take further and don't give it back

Christopher Leung
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Proposal for analysis

V Vlassov
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

Drug and tobacco money not fit for humanitarian projects

Syed Fayyaz Hussain
bmj.com, 4 May 2001 [Full text]

To re- or not to resign

A Mark Clarfield
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Lead the way, Richard

Peter Tallentire
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

The blood dimmed tide of anarchy is let loose upon the world

John Hopkins
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

The health establishment is corrupt!

Carol A S Thompson
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Money for NRT

J H Yeoh, et al.
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

The righteousness and truthfulness of it all

Rakesh Bhargava
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Campbell duped by Big Tobacco

Maria Ellul
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

We Medics Must Shun The Tobacco Industry

Iona Collins
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Magical money?

Dennis P Quinn
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Why this "polarisation?

B P van Leeuwen
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Having your cake and eating it too

Sheri Stoll
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Casual, not causal.

Gareth Lloyd
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Resignation is not victory for his cause

Shabeer Hussain
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Lose the money but not the brains

Greta Ross
bmj.com, 5 May 2001 [Full text]

Fighting Fund?

Peter Selley
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

More harm than benefit for the University

Tim Doran
bmj.com, 6 May 2001 [Full text]

Timing is everything!

Hazel Thornton
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

Smoking should always be discouraged and demonised

Ann Dally
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

Resign but why ask us?

Kwame McKenzie
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

Knowing the difference

Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

independent?

Antonio Lopez Pena
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

'clean' drug trafficking

Mitzi Blennerhassett
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

Resignation does not serve the greater good

Gina Brinsmead
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

Every country is sponsered by BAT

Peter Birner
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

nottingham and tobacco

S L Barley
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

Causes worth quitting over

Ann Shillinglaw
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Not voting

Frank Leavitt
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

A world of deceit.

Fernando Isaza
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Re: Casual, not causal.

S P Prabhu
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

We all love the high moral ground

Sandy Bourne
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Nottingham return the money, and RS stand your ground

Sheelagh Noonan
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

It's What you use it for

T Legg
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

The editor of BMJ should not resign!

Val Gebski
bmj.com, 7 May 2001 [Full text]

sombody, somewhere will pay the price

Hywel Williams
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Such a low price!

Masoud Solaymani Dodaran
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Valour, integrity and hypocrisy

Ketan Dhatariya
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Stay and fight

Karen Klimowski
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Beyond BAT Sponsorship at Nottingham

John A White
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

Economic fallacies and tobacco apologists

Rob Primhak
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

The University badly needs this centre!

Robert Quigley
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

How much does a name cost?

Jack Boomer
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Mutiple misrepresentation

Lesley Fallowfield
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Tobacco U?

Ginny Lovell
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Tell tobacco thanks but no thanks

Clare Ryan
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

I see in black and white

Paul Kerr
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Tobacco toffs buy submission

Cecilia Farren
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Re: Do not quit!

H Fung
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Leave: Nottingham's loss, community's gain

Robert Ashwood
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

To resign is to accept defeat

Anish Shah
bmj.com, 8 May 2001 [Full text]

The editor should resign

B Sobolev
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Inside the tent pissing out

Peter Watson
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

Stick by your principles

Mike Laurence
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

No nexus

Fernando Cavalcanti
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

public, private divide

Ann Naughton
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

The Cancer Research Campaign: A Response

Jean King
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

The position of the Cancer Research Campaign

Richard Smith
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Alice in Wonderland world

Selwyn St Leger
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

PAY-BACK TIME

Edward Hanlon
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Let us take the example of the arts

Oliver Starr
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Of course you're a whore, my dear; all we're arguing about is your price!

David Sackett
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

No to blood money

Christopher Carey
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Richard Smith is Right

Alma Rae
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

How would students view their benefactor?

Edward Parkes
bmj.com, 9 May 2001 [Full text]

conflict of interest

Tina Ambury
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Don't give BAT the Credibility

Vince Summers
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Issues

James Curran
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Who's decision is it anyway?

Mark Waters
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

More effect if editor remains at the professorship

Alexander Gatherer
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

Survey: should the editor resign?

Mel Read
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

Apologetics

Jessica Robbins
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

why he should not resign

Janine Jurkowski
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

Crazy Logic

L Symonds
bmj.com, 10 May 2001 [Full text]

Limits are matter of debate

Huup Dassen
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

sour grapes and toffee noses

Tony Earnshaw
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

The Readers Poll - an example of tabloid journalism

Peter Brindle
bmj.com, 12 May 2001 [Full text]

Drug Cartel?

S W Liew
bmj.com, 12 May 2001 [Full text]

Freedom, what freedom?

Ann Cheesman
bmj.com, 12 May 2001 [Full text]

Good money, bad money, and "objectivity"

Dennis P Quinn
bmj.com, 12 May 2001 [Full text]

Hear your conscience. Don't ask the readers

J K Anand
bmj.com, 12 May 2001 [Full text]

Should "money" come first?

Suthee Rattanamongkolul
bmj.com, 11 May 2001 [Full text]

Developing countries and corporate responsibility

Carol Campbell
bmj.com, 12 May 2001 [Full text]

Medical journals have much to learn from tabloids

Richard Smith
bmj.com, 13 May 2001 [Full text]

Pros and cons

James Austin
bmj.com, 13 May 2001 [Full text]

"Tainted" and "untainted"

Peter Abbott
bmj.com, 13 May 2001 [Full text]

Heroes and villains

John Hopkins
bmj.com, 15 May 2001 [Full text]

"Objectivity" and ETS.

Edward L Sweda
bmj.com, 15 May 2001 [Full text]

"Make the B******* sack You"

Avril Danczak
bmj.com, 15 May 2001 [Full text]

Re: A Clash of Philosophies

Jon Krueger
bmj.com, 16 May 2001 [Full text]

Disgusted

Delma Clifton
bmj.com, 16 May 2001 [Full text]

suspicious agendas???

James Neil
bmj.com, 16 May 2001 [Full text]

"Objectivity" Redux

Dennis P Quinn
bmj.com, 18 May 2001 [Full text]

Nottingham and tobacco

Peter Davies
bmj.com, 18 May 2001 [Full text]

Should the BMJ accept Richard Smith's resignation

Anne Chang
bmj.com, 18 May 2001 [Full text]

Re: "Objectivity" Redux

Edward L Sweda
bmj.com, 19 May 2001 [Full text]

Congratulations, Dr. Smith

Peter Bishop
bmj.com, 18 May 2001 [Full text]

Re: Tents and pissing

Shah Ebrahim
bmj.com, 20 May 2001 [Full text]

I Stand With Smith

Chris Thomas
bmj.com, 21 May 2001 [Full text]

Are Tobacco comp[anies different from Drug Companies?

Bertrand M Bell
bmj.com, 22 May 2001 [Full text]

Medical student view

Thirza Craze
bmj.com, 23 May 2001 [Full text]

Drugs and tobacco

John Dowden
bmj.com, 27 May 2001 [Full text]

Tobacco villainy

Mark Struthers
bmj.com, 27 May 2001 [Full text]

Tobacco companies are a source of evil, whereas pharmaceutical companies are a source of good

Richard Smith
bmj.com, 28 May 2001 [Full text]

The other side of the story

Rhona MacDonald
bmj.com, 30 May 2001 [Full text]

Well Done

B C Rao
bmj.com, 31 May 2001 [Full text]

BAT Funding - A paediatrician's perspective

Sue Franklin
bmj.com, 20 Jun 2001 [Full text]

Response to Quinn

Simon Chapman
bmj.com, 7 Nov 2001 [Full text]

ethics and tobacco

susanne stevens
bmj.com, 1 Nov 2002 [Full text]