Pascal Diethelm

Pascal Diethelm
Pascal Diethelm
Born	1 December 1944 (age 76)
Nationality	Swiss
Occupation	Anti-tobacco activist

Pascal Diethelm (born 1 December 1944) is a Swiss econometrician and tobacco control activist who is the president of the anti-smoking organization OxyRomandie.^[1]^[2] He formerly worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1970 until his retirement in 1999.

Career[]

At the WHO, he developed a database to monitor smoking prevalence rates around the world. When he retired from the WHO, he was its headquarters chief of networking and telecommunications in Geneva, Switzerland.^[3] In the 2000s, while working at the University of Geneva, Diethelm discovered that the Swedish scientist Ragnar Rylander had been serving as a secret consultant to the tobacco company Philip Morris since the 1970s. Diethelm, along with his colleague Jean-Charles Rielle, were subsequently sued for libel by Rylander after they accused him of "scientific cheating without precedent". The case was ultimately appealed to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland before finally being decided in Diethelm's and Rielle's favor.^[3]^[4]

Publications[]

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Books[]

Pascal Diethelm and Martin McKee, Lifting the Smokescreen: Tobacco industry strategy to defeat smoke free policies and legislation, European Respiratory Society and French National Cancer Institute, 2006.

References[]

^ "Appeals Court Decision" (PDF). Prevention.ch. 15 December 2003.
^ Doward, Jamie (14 February 2015). "Row over Marlboro-funded research that undermined plain cigarette packs". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Watts, Geoff (December 2014). "Pascal Diethelm: tireless opponent of the tobacco industry". The Lancet. 384 (9959): 2018. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(14)62326-6. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 25483159.
^ Neroth, Pelle (September 2004). "Tobacco ties". The Lancet. 364 (9438): 925–926. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(04)17042-6. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 15366222.