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• Tobacco researcher leaves U of A 

Jump to full article: CBC News (ca), 2010-01-26

Intro:

A University of Alberta researcher who came to the university's School of Public Health with a $1.5-million grant from a U.S. tobacco firm has left his position.

"As part of the mutually agreeable settlement, I voluntarily completely ended my affiliation with the UASPH and moved my research lab from there," Carl Phillips wrote in an email to the CBC.

Phillips began his research at the university in November 2005 with a grant from U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company. At the time, it was wholly owned by tobacco giant Phillip Morris International.

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