Benjamin James Capps and Yvette van der Eijk are with the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Dean's Office, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Am J Public Health. 2014 Oct;104(10):1833-9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302138. Epub 2014 Aug 14.
We have asked whether the strategic purpose of the tobacco industry is something that a public resource, such as UK Biobank, should support. Tobacco industry health research has been known to work irreconcilably with the purposes of such institutions, which can be surmised as for the public good and defined to improve the provision, diagnosis, and treatment of illness and the promotion of health throughout society. We have isolated possible conflicts of interest that underlie vested research agendas of the tobacco industry and that may extend to tobacco industry-funded researchers. With respect to research, we find that the tobacco industry is entirely at odds with the purposes of public biobanking.
我们曾质疑烟草行业的战略目的是否值得公共资源(如英国生物库)支持。众所周知,烟草行业的健康研究与这些机构的宗旨(即增进社会公共利益,改善疾病的预防、诊断和治疗)是不可调和的,这些机构的宗旨可以被定义为增进社会公共利益,改善疾病的预防、诊断和治疗,促进健康。我们已经发现了潜在的利益冲突,这些冲突是烟草行业既得研究议程的基础,可能会延伸至接受烟草行业资助的研究人员。就研究而言,我们发现烟草行业与公共生物库的宗旨完全相悖。