Table 1.
: Organization subgroups
| Subgroup | Organization name | Reasons for inclusion or exclusion |
| Tobacco industry | British American Tobacco (BAT) UK | Excluded: BAT did not grant permission for their response to be published in the public domain. |
| Imperial Brands Plc (IMB) | Included: Tobacco company | |
| Japan Tobacco International (JTI) | Included: Tobacco company | |
| Philip Morris Ltd (PMI) | Included: Tobacco company | |
| Vaping sector | Danish Vapers Association | Excluded: Independent from the tobacco industry |
| DripDrop Vapour | Excluded: Independent from the tobacco industry | |
| LIQUID MIST | Excluded: Independent from the tobacco industry | |
| Juul Lab | Included: At the time of submission, Altria, the parent company of PMI, owned a 35% share in JUUL and their CEO previously worked at Altria (Tobacco Tactics, 2023b). | |
| Independent British Vape Trade Association (IBVTA) | Excluded: All IBVTA members are free from any ownership or control by the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. | |
| UK Vaping Industry Association | Included: JTI, BAT, PMI, IMB and JUUL Labs are all members of the UKVIA, and their membership makes up a substantial proportion of the UKVIA’s total revenue (Tobacco Tactics, 2022a). A number of directors and senior leaders at the UKVIA have held positions at tobacco companies. UKVIA has also received tobacco industry sponsorship for events (Tobacco Tactics, 2022a). | |
| VPZ | Excluded: VPZ has close financial links with PMI (Tobacco Tactics, 2023c) but did not give permission for their submission to be published in the public domain. | |
| Other | Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) | Included: The ACS includes BAT, IMB, JTI and PMI as ‘premier club’ members, and JTI has sponsored ACS events (Tobacco Tactics, 2023d). |
| Consumer Choice Center (CCC) | Included: A US lobby company that states they are against ‘paternalistic’ government regulations and has received funding from JTI, PMI and BAT (Tobacco Tactics, 2022b). | |
| NFRN (The Federation of Independent Retailers) | Included: The NFRN do not divulge their members; however, they have received funding from BAT for campaigns against plain packaging and they have collaborated with Imperial on campaigns against illicit trade (Tobacco Tactics., 2020b). | |
| Pharmacy (unnamed in the consultation document but included as they sell vaping products) | Excluded: Independent from the tobacco industry | |
| Scottish Grocers Federation (SGF) | Included: The SGF’s membership includes JTI (platinum plus member); BAT, PMU and IMB (gold members); and Juul (bronze member) (Tobacco Tactics., 2023d). In addition, leaked PMI documents from 2012 identified SGF as a ‘media messenger’ in their campaign against plain packaging (Tobacco Tactics., 2023d). | |
| Scottish Wholesale Association (SWA) | Included: The SWA includes BAT, JTI and IMB as members and has received tobacco industry funding for past campaigns against the government’s plain packaging proposals (Tobacco Tactics., 2020a). | |
| Winning Scotland | Excluded: Independent from the tobacco industry |