Tess Legg

Biographic Data

ID7701785
NAMETess Legg
GIVEN NAMESTess
FAMILY NAMELegg
SIGNATURELEGG T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bath
ORCID0000-0003-3157-048X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Developing and evaluating an educational intervention on conflicts of interest and corporate influence on science

    Open AccessAlice Fabbri, Iona Fitzpatrick et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2025

    Financial conflicts of interest resulting from corporate funding of research can bias the evidence base. We designed an educational intervention that sought to enable participants to make informed decisions and mitigate risk when considering corporate funding for research. We used pre/post-test surveys, which comprised a mix of closed and open-ended questions, to evaluate the training and its impact on knowledge (Wilcoxon signed-rank test), attit…

  • The UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill (2023/4)

    Open AccessBritta Matthes, Tess Legg et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2025

    When faced with tobacco endgame and nicotine control policies in the UK, tobacco and nicotine industries pushed back using framing strategies common to health-harming industries. Despite contradicting their 'transformation' narratives, TTCs still sought to position themselves as public health actors deserving policy access. Advocates, researchers and policymakers can anticipate opposition to endgame policies-such as a generational sales ban-and N…

  • The UK public’s trust in tobacco industry involvement in science – an experimental survey

    Open AccessTess Legg, Lisa Bero et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2024

    Introduction Despite the tobacco industry’s (TI) decades-long history of manipulating science, Philip Morris International (PMI) now frames itself as a benevolent funder of science and, in 2017, launched a new scientific organisation, the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW). With concerns mounting that PMI’s actions are echoing historical TI influence on science, we aimed to understand the extent to which the public trusts PMI’s involvement …

  • Document analysis of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World’s scientific outputs and activities

    Open AccessTess Legg, Bryan C Clift et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2023

    Our paper identifies FSFW as a new vehicle for agnogenesis, indicating that, over 70 years since the tobacco industry began to manipulate science, efforts to protect science from its interference remain inadequate. This, combined with growing evidence that other industries are engaging in similar practices, illustrates the urgent need to develop more robust systems to protect scientific integrity

  • Paying lip service to publication ethics

    Open AccessTess Legg, Michél Legendre et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2021

    Litigation forced the dissolution of three major tobacco industry-funded organisations because of their egregious role in spreading scientific misinformation. Yet in 2017, a new scientific organisation-the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW)-was launched, funded entirely by tobacco corporation Philip Morris International (PMI). Experts fear FSFW similarly serves to benefit its funder's scientific and political agenda. We present three case s…

  • Exploring the Twitter activity around the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

    Open AccessLindsay Robertson, Ayush Joshi et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2020

    The nature of the activity on Twitter around COP8, including a substantial online presence by PMI executives and NGP advocates with links to organisations funded directly and indirectly by PMI, is highly consistent with PMI's 2014 corporate affairs strategy, which described engaging tobacco harm reduction advocates to 'amplify and leverage the debate on harm reduction' around events such as the COP