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Data Supplement - Read Richard Smith's letter of resignation 

I’m writing with regret to resign my position as professor of medical journalism in the University of Nottingham. I’m doing this because the University has taken money from British American Tobacco to fund an International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility. This is a serious mistake and has damaged the University. . .

You may be most interested in the two responses [1, 2] from the Cancer Research Campaign. You give the impression in your article that the Campaign said that it was all right for the University to accept the money so long as it was spent in a part of the University that received no funding from the Campaign. In fact, the Campaign makes clear that it does not approve of the acceptance of the money and that it thinks that you have breached the protocol that it agreed with Universities UK. Perhaps this will make you want to reconsider taking the money. . .

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