Pascal Diethelm

Pascal Diethelm
Born (1944-12-01) 1 December 1944
Nationality Swiss
Occupation Anti-tobacco activist

Pascal Diethelm (born 1 December 1944) is a Swiss econometrician and anti-tobacco 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. 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 2000's, 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 1970's. 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]

References

  1. ↑ "Appeals Court Decision" (PDF). Prevention.ch. 2003-12-15.
  2. ↑ Doward, Jamie (2015-02-14). "Row over Marlboro-funded research that undermined plain cigarette packs". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. ↑ Neroth, Pelle (September 2004). "Tobacco ties". The Lancet. 364 (9438): 925–926. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(04)17042-6. ISSN 0140-6736.


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