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Should Nottingham University give back its tobacco money?
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Richard Smith, editor of the BMJ, is
professor of medical journalism at Nottingham University, which has
taken £3.8m from British American Tobacco to fund an international
centre for the study of corporate responsibility. He argues that the
university should return the money. The university's vice chancellor,
Sir Colin Campbell, argues the opposite. Readers are asked to vote on
bmj.com whether the university should return the money and whether
Smith should resign if it doesn't.
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Richard Smith BMJ, BMA
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editor@bmj.com
By taking money from the tobacco industry, the
University of Nottingham debases itself. It offers the
industry
at a cheap pricea respectability it doesn't deserve. Using
the money to support an international centre for the study of corporate
responsibility is
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