Philip Morris International...is seeking to force a British university to reveal full details of its research involving confidential interviews with…children…about their attitudes towards smoking and cigarette packaging…The demands…have coincided with an internet hate campaign targeted at university researchers involved in smoking studies. One of the academics has received anonymous abusive phone calls at her home at night. She believes they are prompted by an organised campaign by the tobacco industry...although there is no evidence that the cigarette companies are directly responsible...]R]esearchers at Stirling University say that handing over highly sensitive data would be a gross breach of confidence…Anne Edwards, director of external communications at Philip Morris…[said] "We made the request in order to understand more about a research project…on plain packaging for cigarettes." [also refers to Imperial Tobacco]