The TIO commends the decision of BMJ’s updated policy, which states that the journal will not publish research funded partly or wholly by the tobacco industry, and nor will it publish work where authors have “personal financial ties to the tobacco industry”.

Citation: Macdonald H, Hardy H, Rahimi K, Aldcroft A, Cook S, Hopkinson N S et al. Protecting BMJ journals’ content from tobacco industry influence BMJ 2024;385:q1169.