Delegates and speakers at a major cancer conference discovered that the event was sponsored by two cigarette companies, Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco.
The Economist magazine’s events department was taking money from tobacco companies to sponsor its 10th annual ‘World Cancer Series Europe’ conference.
You couldn’t make it up.
It reminds us that members of the Concierge Class, in this case managers who work in PR agencies and conference companies, lack morals or self awareness.
