Appointed by WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland in l998 to head the Tobacco-Free Initiative's Policy Advisory Committee. Prior to her appointment at WHO, Mackay was with the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control in Hong Kong and was one of the most influential professional anti-tobacco zealots in Asia.

The Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control is, incidentally, listed as one of the sponsors for Globalink, the computer network used by WHO and other organizations to link professional anti-tobacco advocates throughout the world.

Representing the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, Mackay was one of the signers of the "Statement of International Tobacco Control Advocates on the U.S. Tobacco Litigation Settlement Discussions" in June, l997. Among other outrages, the "statement" recommended that the U.S. tobacco companies be forced to donate $10 billion annually to the WHO for tobacco control and that the U.S. tobacco industry also be required to "offer to compensate foreign government health agencies."

In an article she wrote for the Multinational Monitor ("China's Tobacco Wars," Jan/Feb l992) Mackay excoriates the U.S. tobacco industry, but is somewhat sympathetic toward the government-owned Chinese tobacco industry, which is not only the biggest cigarette manufacturer in the world but also the biggest revenue producer for the Chinese government. "But there are differences between the CNTC [the China National Tobacco Corporation] and Western commercial tobacco companies. The [Chinese] monopoly sees its role as the organizer and controller of a state industry, carrying out government directives, and not as an apologist for tobacco." Apparently so long as cigarettes are produced by a socialist government, that's not so bad; it's those nasty capitalist cigarettes that will eventually kill the children of China. Mackay's article even cites epidemiologist Richard Peto whom she says predicted that "of all the children alive today in China under the age of 20 years, 50 million of them will eventually die from tobacco."

Last summer in her official WHO capacity as senior advisor to Gro Harlem Brundtland, Judith Mackay was in Washington, D.C. to participate in a news briefing aimed at the U.S. Congress. Together with such anti-tobacco zealots as Sen. Richard Durbin, Bill Novelli of Tobacco-Free Kids, Cass Wheeler of the American Heart Association, Linda Ford of the American Lung Association, and former American Cancer Society Chair George Dessart, Mackay appealed for U.S. legislators to fund global anti-tobacco activities. The group called for the enactment of legislation which would "adequately fund global tobacco control efforts" and "fund international tobacco control through a fee imposed on the tobacco industry," ("Women's Organizations Issue Appeal for Action on Tobacco," U.S. Newswire press release, 7/16, l998).