Former health minister, Frank Dobson, introduced this bill to parliament, which would have forced tobacco companies to release all market research and health studies carried out by or for them.

Unsually, the long title of the bill spells out the aims in no uncertain terms: "whereas the tobacco industry carries out scientific and market research, designed to promote the sale of its products which, when used according to the makers' instructions, cause the death of one hundred and twenty thousand people a year in the United Kingdom, it is deemed advantageous for the health of the people and the prosperity of the realm that the information the tobacco companies so acquire should be disclosed so that the people can be forewarned and the Government forearmed".

House of Commons

First reading: July 18 2001 (HC Bill 24)

Second reading: January 18 2002 (dropped)