David Bertram
David Bertram is an executive with the PR company EUK Consulting.
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Working with Philip Morris
He worked for three years as Public Affairs Manager for Philip Morris (UK & Ireland) and three years as Philip Morris International's Director of Public Affairs for Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa. [1]
Attended TMA Meetings
In the late 1980s, Bertram attended Tobacco Manufacturers' Association (TMA) meetings on behalf of Philip Morris. [2]
Freedom to Smoke Campaign
Bertram also worked on the PR campaign by the tobacco industry to undermine the health campaign on second hand smoke. [3] He was involved in meetings organised by Confederation of European Community Cigarette Manufacturers, (CECCM) on its "Freedom to Smoke" campaign, which included countering arguments on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). [4]
Philip Morris's International Image TaskForce
Bertram was also a member of Philip Morris's International Image Taskforce. [5]
Other Issues
Issues that Bertram worked on included the EU Advertising Ban,[6] and youth smoking "prevention" programmes. [7]
Notes
- ↑ EUK Consulting, website, Accessed July 2010
- ↑ Tobacco Manufacturers' Association, Meeting, 21 February 1997, Accessed July 2011
- ↑ David Bertram, UK Scoth: BMJ Papers, 17 October 1997
- ↑ Helene Lyberopoulos, Minutes CECCM Freedom to Smoke Meeting, 28 January 1997, 3 February 2007, Accessed July 2011
- ↑ Philip Morris, Recommendations of the International Image Taskforce, Undated, Access July 2011
- ↑ David Bertram, EU Ad Ban: Development, Philip Morris Limited, 14 August 1997, Accessed July 2011
- ↑ Karen Daragan, Two thoughts / confidential, 15 January 2001