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Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney

This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King.

I wrote a column about her last October when her efforts to dissuade the Australian superannuation industry to divest itself of tobacco stocks had been followed by a dozen companies selling off more than A$1 billion worth of tobacco stock.

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