David Warburton (tobacco)

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Professor David M. Warburton is former co-ordinator of Associates for Research in Substance Enjoyment, later changed to Associates for Research in the Science of Enjoyment or ARISE, a tobacco industry funded front group which aimed to undermine the findings of medical research relating to the effects of smoking tobacco.[1]

As of February 2010 Professor Warburton is a professor of psychology at the University of Reading.[2] He was formerly head of psychopharmacology at the University of Reading.[3]

Publications

  • David M. Warburton, ed., Pleasure, the Politics and the Reality, Wiley, John & Sons, Inc, 1994

Notes

  1. George Monbiot, "Just follow the money", The Guardian, February 7th, 2006
  2. Staff Profile:Professor David Warburton, Reading Univ website, accessed 14 Feb 2010
  3. Health Official: A little of what you fancy does you good, BBC News, 18 Nov 1998, accessed 12 Feb 2010