{"id":544,"date":"2013-02-20T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=544"},"modified":"2013-02-20T23:17:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:17:45","slug":"imperial-tobacco-awarded-for-social-and-economic-contribution-to-polish-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2013\/02\/20\/imperial-tobacco-awarded-for-social-and-economic-contribution-to-polish-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Tobacco awarded for &#8220;social and economic contribution to Polish society&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems this business award committee forgot about all of Imperial&#8217;s sick, dying and dead customers. I wonder if the local community contributions included addicting children to tobacco and breaking up families? This latest award provides yet further <span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosmedicine.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001076\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">evidence <\/span><\/a><\/span>of the tobacco industry using corporate social responsibility programs to polish is tarnished image and avoid government regulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobaccoreporter.com\/2013\/02\/imperial-collects-second-award-in-poland\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\">Tobacco Reporter <\/span><\/a><\/span>writes:<\/p>\n<p>Imperial Tobacco\u2019s operation in Poland has been handed a prestigious award by the nation\u2019s leading business organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Diamond to the Gold Statuette of the Business Leader\u2019 was awarded in recognition of Imperial\u2019s social and economic contribution to Polish society.<\/p>\n<p>The award was made at the annual Grand Gala of Business Leaders held in Warsaw by the national Business Centre Club.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial was chosen by a jury of leading business people who looked at how companies take care of their employees, contribute to local communities and engage with stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The award, which builds on the gold statuette Imperial received last year, was accepted by Gra\u017cyna Soko\u0142owska, corporate and legal affairs manager Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted we\u2019ve been recognised as a responsible business making a valuable contribution, which can only be achieved through the efforts of all our employees,\u201d said Soko\u0142owska.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems this business award committee forgot about all of Imperial&#8217;s sick, dying and dead customers. I wonder if the local community contributions included addicting children to tobacco and breaking up families? This latest award provides yet further evidence of the tobacco industry using corporate social responsibility programs to polish is tarnished image and avoid government [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2013\/02\/20\/imperial-tobacco-awarded-for-social-and-economic-contribution-to-polish-society\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tobacco-industry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}