In recent years, Philip Morris, the global tobacco group, has steered clear of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. No wonder. The WEF defines its mission with the pious mantra, “improving the state of the world”. Big Tobacco has been pilloried for damaging global health, due to the link between cancer and smoking. Tobacco executives saw little point in rubbing shoulders with the global elite in the Swiss Alps – and the WEF didn’t want to put tobacco bosses on its lofty panels.
近年來,全球煙草集團菲利普莫里斯(Philip Morris)回避了在達沃斯舉行的世界經濟論壇(World Economic Forum)年會。這不難理解。世界經濟論壇對其使命的定義是一個道貌岸然的口號——“改善世界狀況”。由于癌癥和吸煙之間的聯系,大型煙草公司一直受到批評,被指危害全球健康。煙草公司的高管們看不出在瑞士阿爾卑斯山與全球精英濟濟一堂有什么意義,而世界經濟論壇也不想把煙草公司的老板們放在高談闊論的討論小組中。