Dr Robert Branston is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Bath School of Management and Co-Director of its Tobacco Control Research Group. His research covers the governance and regulation of organisations, the conduct and regulation of the global tobacco industry, and tobacco taxation, pricing and affordability, including duty-free sales and industry levies. He has shared his expertise with the UK Parliament, HM Treasury, the Department of Health and the Irish Ministry of Finance, and his recent work appears in Tobacco Control and the International Journal of Drug Policy.