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era,” said Rose, director of the Duke University Center for Smoking Cessation, who has received funding over the years from PMI and Philip Morris USA. “The real enemy is death and disease caused by smoking,” not the tobacco industry. Today, Rose said, his center is funded exclusively by National Institutes of Health grants. Still, he said, “I would not hesitate to apply for funding from the foundation. The merits of accepting funding to do public health [research] outweigh the risks.” However, recent reports suggest that long-held suspicions may still be wellfounded. Shortly before the foundation was formally launched, Reuters News Agency published an investigation, based on internal PMI documents, that concluded the company has been trying to weaken Framework Convention on Tobacco Control provisions curbing tobacco use. Ironically, Yach helped develop the tobacco control convention, which coordinates global efforts to combat tobacco use.