Classification of actors | |
Role—determined from data | |
Active participants | Actors who opposed standardised packaging in public, business and/or political venues |
Facilitative participants | Actors who did not oppose standardise packaging on their own behalf, but undertook research or other consultative work for active participants that was subsequently used by the active participants, for example, to develop and substantiate arguments and disseminate them for public and political audiences |
Sector—determined from data and actors' websites | |
Academia | Universities |
Business | Tobacco product and tobacco packaging manufacturing and tobacco packaging design companies Non-manufacturing companies General and sectoral business associations |
Civil society | Think tanks General and smokers’ rights groups Labour unions Retired police associations |
State | Parliamentary groups |
Relationship with tobacco companies—determined from data, actors’ websites, transparency registers, general internet searches and email enquiries54 | |
Financial | Core funding from one or more TTC Campaign funding from one or more TTC Membership funding or donation from one or more TTC Client relationships with one or more TTC |
Non-financial | Employee membership (where TTC employees were members of organisations) Third party connections (where an indirect link exists between the actor and a TTC via a third party) |
None | No relationship between the actor and any of the four major tobacco companies |
Unknown | Insufficient information to determine whether a relationship existed |
Manufacturers | Tobacco product and packaging manufacturing companies were exempt from classification for relationship |
Classification of political activity | |
Type of political activity | |
Research production | The commissioning and production of policy-relevant research |
Public communication | Public communication of arguments to the general public and to sectoral audiences (eg, retailers, smokers) via the mainstream and sectoral media, including press, online, films, events |
Mass recruitment | Mass recruitment of the general public and of particular sectors to encourage responses to the 2012 consultation and communication with MPs and Ministers |
Direct lobbying | Direct lobbying of politicians and civil servants via hospitality, meetings, events and publications and correspondence |
Transparency of involvement of TTCs in political activity | |
Explicit | Clear declaration of TTCs funding or involvement in activity-related documents |
Implicit | Activity-related documents did not include a declaration of TTC funding, but one could be found on the publishing website |
Undeclared | Neither documents nor publishing website included a declaration of TTC funding |
Not applicable | No evidence of TTC involvement in political activity |
MPs, Members of Parliament; TTC, transnational tobacco company.