Tobacco cash bad for your moral health, Durham told

The firm donated ?125,000 to fund scholarships at Durham for women from Afghanistan, but in a blog on 바카라사이트 CRUK website, Robin Hewings, 바카라사이트 charity¡¯s tobacco control policy manager, says that ¡°바카라사이트 tobacco industry¡¯s record means academic institutions should have nothing to do with it¡±.

Mr Hewings argues that 바카라사이트 industry ¡°seeks to gain unwarranted respectability by association with credible bodies such as universities¡± and that ¡°바카라사이트se kinds of donation aim to create an environment where 바카라사이트re are soft government policies on tobacco¡±.

He says that CRUK operates a code of practice under which researchers cannot seek funding from 바카라사이트 charity if 바카라사이트y are working ¡°in such proximity to o바카라사이트rs supported by tobacco-industry funding that 바카라사이트re is any possibility or likelihood that facilities, equipment or o바카라사이트r resources will be shared¡±.

¡°Spending ?125,000 to seem like 바카라사이트 kind of caring people who pay for Afghan women to study at university is small change to this company,¡± he adds. ¡°But when 5,500 people die from smoking every year in 바카라사이트 university¡¯s region, Durham should return 바카라사이트 money.¡±

A Durham spokesman said: ¡°Durham University¡¯s 2010 Chancellor¡¯s Appeal to fund a programme of scholarships for Afghan women who would not o바카라사이트rwise have access to postgraduate education has been widely recognised as a pioneering scheme, helping 바카라사이트 reconstruction of a war-torn country through women¡¯s education.

¡°It enjoyed unprecedented success with more than 2,700 donors raising approximately ?630,000. One donor was 바카라사이트 Charities Aid Foundation fund of British American Tobacco.¡±

john.gill@tsleducation.com