ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis is under fire over a 1.8 million Swiss francs (£1.46 million) sponsoring deal his department struck with tobacco giant Philip Morris International to help fund Switzerland's Expo 2020 pavilion in Dubai.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is scrutinising the pact, while the Swiss School of Public Health, a group of eight universities offering health education, told Cassis in a letter made public on Wednesday that taking tobacco money contradicts ethical principles of the health sciences.