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According to media reports, this is part of BATB’s fight against COVID-19 ‘together with the government’. Article 5.3 stipulates that policy making be free of the vested interests of the tobacco industry. [...]particularly in light of Bangladesh’s aspiration to become a tobacco-free country by 2040, it may be time to introduce a total ban on tobacco companies’ CSR programmes to safeguard its tobacco control measures from interference. The STMA is related to the colossal state-owned tobacco industry that pays over 40% of all taxes in some provinces. Because STMA monopolises the sale of combustible tobacco in China, they have a vested interest in limiting the penetration of e-cigarettes into the conventional tobacco market. Sihui Peng, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China Xiaozhao Yang School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China yangxzh27@mail.sysu.edu.cn Tingzhong Yang Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou,China Global: Philip Morris International set to takeover medical firm Vectura Tobacco Company Philip Morris International (PMI) is in the centre of a controversial £1.1 billion takeover of Vectura, a UK medical company which makes, among other things, asthma inhalers, devices which are used to treat an illness that smoking triggers and exacerbates.